Political Quotes

“Mr. President, today I wish to honor National School Nurse Day. Today we recognize the contributions that school nurses make every day to improve the health and learning outcomes of our Nation's children, especially as our children face more challenging chronic health issues than ever before. A top priority of this Nation should be ensuring that our children have a healthy and successful future. School nurses make this vision a reality each day. Quite simply, healthy children learn better and are more likely to become successful members of society. In New York there are about 3,700 school nurses who are serving our students out of the more than 76,000 nationwide. School nurses provide a non-negotiable value to schools, families, communities, and this Nation as a whole. By keeping children healthy, in school, and ready to learn, school nurses save money and save lives. Every teacher deserves to stay in the classroom and focus on educational outcomes, and every parent deserves to be able to go to work and send his or her child to school with a nurse who will keep his or her child safe and healthy. School nurses have the knowledge, skills and judgment to manage potentially emergent situations and provide daily care for students with increasing chronic health conditions, ranging from asthma to childhood obesity to Type-2 diabetes to severe food allergies.…”