School Nurses Keep Treating Those Little Aches and Pains

Michelle Wall likens her office at Heights Elementary School in Oakland to an ambulatory health clinic. On a recent day, the school nurse had two kids waiting to have their hearing and vision tested, a third child lying on a sick bed, another who had just strolled in to complain of a persistent cough, and a parent on the phone calling to find out what illnesses were going around the building...read more