As COVID relief funds are set to expire at U.S. schools by the end of this year, some school nurses are worried about what comes next.
Nurses at NYC public schools will undergo suicide-prevention training program announced by the NYC Department of Education on Tuesday.
“Just this week, I had a school with a diabetic student, and there was no nurse in the school, and mom is a single parent. Mom had to find somebody to come and pick up the child,” the...
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The city Education Department is ramping up COVID-19 testing in public schools in the nine ZIP codes where cases of the virus are spiking, officials said Tuesday. Mobile testing labs will be set up outside dozens of public schools in the hotspot ZIP codes over the next two to three weeks, offering free and optional tests to staff, students, and students’ families. The expanded testing comes as the city’s overall positive COVID-19 test rate rose to 3.25% Tuesday, driven by clusters in Brookly...
The city Education Department has granted 530 school staffers medical and religious exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate that takes effect Monday, DOE officials said. Applications for the exemptions were due earlier this week and were reviewed by staffers in the DOE’s central offices. Officials said they’re still reviewing some applications and more exemptions could be granted. The agency didn’t specify how many of the granted exemptions were for medical reasons and how many were for religious reasons — or how many applied. ...
With the traumas of COVID still freshly seared into their minds, New York City nurses are once again sounding the alarm that staffing shortages at local hospitals are jeopardizing the well-being of themselves and their patients. Nurses in the Big Apple and throughout New York State are planning a series of protests starting this week to highlight what they say is a failure on the part of hospitals to staff jobs that started to become vacant after the first pandemic wave roared through the region...
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New York City public schools could lose out on hundreds of nurses next year, as the city faces the expiration of billions of dollars in one-time federal relief funds.
As COVID-19 continues to rapidly spread throughout New York, the city is scrambling to enlist 85 new school nurses to address a longstanding shortage.