At the August 25th Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees meeting, district nurses used their allotted time during open comment to make an organized, collective presentation to the school board and community regarding the imminent safety of PVUSD staff and students. The presentation School Nursing Services in Hard Times by school nurses Kathleen Kilpatrick, Elizabeth Thorne and Judy Schwartze shared important information about the state of school medical services in PVUSD.

Some of the major points presented to the school board and district administrators were that the average caseload for senior nurses is 5,000 students and ten school sites, current assignments are unsafe and put students at risk and caseloads are already above state and national averages. Nurses in PVUSD also manage Special Ed students in all levels of acuity. Read more