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A helping hand in rural Idaho: Boise State and community partners open a school-based clinic March 2, 2021 By Angela Fairbanks (Fairbanks is a content writer in the School of Nursing)
By the time an average student graduates from public school in the United States, they have spent 105,120 hours of their life in a classroom. A lot can happen in 105,120 hours: a child can discover their passion, a teenager can fall in love, or someone of any age can be injured or start to show signs of chronic illness.
School nurses are known for treating playground injuries, but they can play an essential role in identifying early signs of chronic illnesses such as asthma or diabetes, as well as mental and behavioral concerns such as depression, anxiety, and hyperactivity disorders. Even so, up to 60% of American schools aren’t able to employ a full-time, formally-trained nurse on campus, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN Armed with a federal grant of nearly $2 million, University of Rhode Island neuroscientist, researcher and professor Sarah Feldstein Ewing is studying new treatment possibilities for young people who engage in heavy drinking and substance use.
The goal, according to Feldstein Ewing, is to intervene with young people with different approaches than their older counterparts, whose brains are developmentally different than adolescents.
“We’re treating kids who have been drinking for maybe two years, and we’re talking about relapse and asking kids to abstain,” the researcher said in a URI announcement of her work. “These concepts that may make sense if you’ve been drinking for 30 years are a little more far-fetched if you’re 15 and just binge drinking over prom weekend.”