I wanted to let all of you know about something very important to
all School Nurses in the state of Georgia. Yesterday, January 14th,
Governor Perdue made public his proposed budget for 2010. It states:
Eliminate state funding support for school nurses. ($30,000,000)
This means the School Nurse monies for School Year 2009-2010 are
eliminated in this proposed budget. The Board of GASN is mobilizing,
building coalitions and trying to ramp up support to help influence
the turn around of this proposal. We will have somerecommendations to
you, our members and colleagues by early next week. Of course, it
never hurts to start getting your support systems together. We all
know there are parents out there that value School Nurses, and we will
need their support now more than ever. We all need to work together
on this issue. We will address this as professionals who feel that
children in our state deserve a School Nurse in their School
community! Thank you for your attention. Look forward to hearing from
us!
Joanne Giel, RN
President - GASN
1 comment:
What can we, as concerned parents of school age children, do to help so that this does not become a reality. I recieved one response today from a clinic worker that "this would never pass", but I do not want to sit by and hope and pray if there is more that I can do to ensure that a more than qualified nurse is available to my child while attending school. What about the children who have to take medication daily? Is this supposed to become just another task for a teacher to over see? Please let us know how to get involved! Thanks, JC Stephens
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