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Article: Nursing Shortage Affects Sarasota County, Fla., Schools.
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- The Sun (Port Charlotte, FL)
- Article date:
- December 24, 2002
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Byline: Angeline Taylor
Dec. 24--SARASOTA, Fla.--Some of the 35 schools in Sarasota County don't have a school nurse. And the district's ratio of one nurse to every 4,600 students is more than three times what the state of Florida recommends.
"A lot of people don't realize that we don't have a nurse in every school," said Wilma Hamilton, Sarasota County Superintendent of schools. "We hope that some of our children will get earlier treatment from school health nurses."
Each school has a skilled health aide, but he or she may not be equipped to accommodate the needs of all the students who are guaranteed an education.
"The student ...