Nurses COVID
Published Apr 28, 2009
Seeing Warning Signs of Outbreak, School Nurse Set Response in Motion
It was a routine call last Thursday from a diligent high school nurse that put health detectives in New York City on the trail of a swine flu outbreak. ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/nyregion/27response.html
cursedandblessed
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having a secretary pass out medications is not a good idea. nor do they have the training to know what to do if i child with diabetes becomes hypoglycemic, or for the child with an asthma attack, let alone recognize the signs and symptoms that something is wrong(that nursing gut instinct)
AJN did a small piece on it's site: http://ajnoffthecharts.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/%e2%80%98diligent-high-school-nurse%e2%80%99-instrumental-in-discovery-of-swine-flu-outbreak/