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Maughan  \nThe number of students with chronic and complex health  \nconditions significantly affects a teacher’s ability to  \nteach and meet the needs of the whole child—especially combined with the impact of societal issues such as poverty, violence, and the growing population of families who speak a language other than English at home. Education in America is free, but healthcare is not. is fact presents a unique divide among schools and even within classrooms, where some students have parents who have good healthcare coverage and seek medical attention regularly, while others come from families who are limited to emergency room visits for chronic illnesses or only see a healthcare professional in life-threatening situations.  \nErin D. Maughan is the director of research for the National Association of School Nurses. Previously, she was an associate professor in the College of Nursing at Brigham Young University. A former school nurse, she has also worked as a school nurse consultantfor the Utah Department of Health.  \nSchool nurses can help bridge this divide. Often, they are the only healthcare professional that students see regularly. So when a class includes Paul (who has missed multiple days of school, seems distracted when he does attend, and often has a deep, penetrating cough), Keisha (who stays in her seat during class but always seems drowsy), Aidan (whose disruptive behavior makes instruction di􀀜cult), andAnni (whois struggling to learn English), the school nurse should be one of the 􀀝rst resources their teacher turns to.  \nUnfortunately, not every school has a nurse. Only about 50 percent of schools have a full-time registered nurse for at least 30 hours per week, and 18 percent do not have a nurse at all.1  \nWhile the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) recommends that every student have access to a school nurse every day, the presence of a nurse in school depends on state nurse practice acts and regulations. NASN recommends that the severity of a student population’s health needs should factor into how many school nurses should sta􀀞 a school. Home and family factors, such as poverty and home languages other than English,  \nILLUSTRAT IONS BY ENRIQUE MOREIRO  \nAMERICAN EDUCATOR | SPRING 2016 19  \nshould also factor into determining adequate nurse sta􀀜ng.2 ability to learn, and reinforcing current medical and legislative  \nCurrently, more than 61,000 school nurses work in K–12 policies that affect student health (e.g., allowing students to schools.3 According to the National Center for Education Statis- carry their inhalers and including a school nurse on appropriate tics, there are 52 million students in our nation’s public schools. individualized student educational team meetings) .  \nStudies indicate that as many as 27 percent of American children School nurses make sure students know how to manage their have chronic health conditions (such as asthma, diabetes, severe conditions by taking their medication or adhering to other treatfood allergies, and seizure disorders), which school nurses are ments. Technological innovations and medical advancements trained to help manage.4 happen quickly, and school nurses work hard to stay up to date.  \nWith so many students in need of medical care in school— In so doing, they act as the bridge between the school and a stuwhether that care is related to a chronic illness or an emergency dent’s healthcare provider to ensure a student’s needs are met. situation—and so few nurses in schools to help them, policy- Some children who have complex medical issues require makers, educators, and the gen- treatments ranging from catheeral public must understand all ters to gastrointestinal tubes. that school nurses do so they can School nurses work with teachapvobliccae fochorohlaving one in every Only about 50 percent of erevseanr yonheronschotheoelsdsotiaatl Meeting Students’ public schools have a full- eam ","cbCaiqOZFwpyIy2g","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqOZFwpyIy2g","pdf",541688,"English","# Building Strong Children\n## Why We Need Nurses in Schools\n## Gaps in School Nurse Availability\n## Staffing Needs and Policy Considerations\n## Impact on Students and Teachers","[{\"question\":\"How do chronic health conditions affect teaching and student learning?\",\"answer\":\"Chronic and complex health conditions influence a teacher’s ability to teach and address the whole child. 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