With the academic year winding down to its final weeks, Kim Glawe â the Temple Independent School Districtâs director of health services â reflected not only on the challenges that were overcome in the midst of COVID-19, but also the school nurses that helped provide students a safe learning environment.
This past year, school nurses in Temple ISD tackled daily COVID-19 screenings, conducted contact tracing and assisted with hundreds of COVID-19 vaccinations.
âThe first thing I said to the nurses at our very first staff meeting was âThank you for not quitting,ââ Glawe told the Telegram. âWhen COVID-19 came about, it brought a challenge to the Temple community and to the Temple school nurses.â
Award honors all Maine school nurses for virus-strained year
May 12, 2021 GMT
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) Maine has decided to give its “School Nurse of the Year” award to all the school nurses in the state.
Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, and the Maine Department of Education said Wednesday they and the Maine Association of School Nurses are recognizing all school nurses as the “School Nurse of the Year” for the 2020-21 school year.
Mills and the education department said the coronavirus pandemic has taxed resources at school districts throughout the state. School nurses have had to take on new responsibilities to help keep students healthy and schools safe, they said.
Providers who are offering the vaccine in Maine said children need parental consent to receive one.
Shah also said the state s mobile vaccination unit will be extended until July 2. The clinic provides vaccines to adults only at this time.
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Latest numbers
The number of daily cases also continued to decrease.
The seven-day rolling average of daily new cases in Maine did not increase over the past two weeks, going from 352.14 new cases per day on April 26 to 278.14 new cases per day on May 10. The seven-day rolling average of daily deaths in Maine did not increase over the past two weeks, going from 1.43 deaths per day on April 26 to 1.00 deaths per day on May 10.