Champaign school district health care gets shot in the arm
By Jodi Heckel
Friday September 21, 2007
CHAMPAIGN – When it comes to helping children with medical conditions in the Champaign school district, it falls on principals, deans and student services coordinators to give medications or know how to give an epinephrine injection in the case of an allergic reaction.
But now those administrators have someone to turn to with questions about handling a situation correctly or providing medication at the appropriate time. The district has a school nurse for the first time in more than a decade – Valerie Day, a registered nurse who started work in mid-August and is based at Stratton Elementary School.
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