School nurses overburdened in D.C. region

Caseloads for school nurses exceed federal guidelines in much of the Washington, D.C., region at a time when campus clinics serve growing numbers of students with severe disabilities or chronic conditions such as diabetes and asthma. As health-care needs multiply, school nurses are struggling to keep up and finding less time for preventive education on public-health issues such as childhood obesity or substance abuse.

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