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As schools struggle to safely open and stay open during the COVID-19 pandemic, the vital role of school nurses has taken center stage. While school nurses are rarely in the limelight, they long have been on the front lines, promoting the health of school-age children and their communities. At the same time, the past year also brought new attention to the struggle for racial justice and new efforts to confront systemic racism considered a public health crisis by the American Public Health Association. Here, too, school nurses have a crucial role to play in addressing a serious health equity issue affecting children and adolescents: the school-to-prison-pipeline.
By Lance Reynolds, Republican-American
Vicki DeLucia, head school nurse at Woodland Regional High School in Beacon Falls, stands in her office Jan. 22. -JIM SHANNON/REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
BEACON FALLS By 10 a.m. most school days, Vicki DeLucia, head school nurse at Woodland Regional High School, already has called the Naugatuck Valley and Chesprocott health districts about eight times to discuss COVID-19 issues.
While on those phone calls, DeLucia looks across the hallway into a room that served as a world languages classroom last year. That room now has four cots spaced 4 feet apart with dividers between each. This is where students go when they show COVID-19 symptoms.