Fewer school nurses face growing array of duties

September 15, 2008 Filed Under: Nursing School

Melissa Barber isn’t a nurse, but she often performs the duties of one. Barber, a teaching assistant in a special-needs class at Bush Elementary School in Salem, is one of a number of teacher aides, secretaries and school office workers who find themselves dispensing prescription medications, such as Ritalin, to children and helping with medical emergencies. On a recent day, she performed a tube-feeding... 

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