Montana public schools in need of more registered nurses

The survey shows that Montana is now ranked No. 42 of 50 states, and that 26 of Montana’s 56 counties have no school nursing services. In fact, 98 percent of Montana students have no registered school nurse or too few school nurses in their county.

Now that Graduation Matters Missoula http://www.mcpsmt.org/site/default.aspx and other academic agendas are well under way, Apostle said he will turn his focus to bolstering the district’s infrastructure.

"We know we need to increase the number of registered nurses, and we are contemplating putting another registered nurse with one of the elementary schools that has a lot of special needs students," he said. "We would like to have something in place by the first of the year."

Written by BETSY COHEN of the Missoulian

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