Teri Saurer is a parent, and like any parent she got a little anxious a few years ago when her daughter, Hannah, was about to head off to kindergarten. “Hannah had a prior history of epilepsy and she now has life-threatening food allergies,” Saurer explains. “I was very concerned sending her to school. So I looked into the nurse situation and I was very surprised to find out that there was not a nurse in her school every day.” Saurer lives in Charlotte, but it’s true across North Carolina. Not only is there not a nurse in every school, in some places, three, four, or more schools share a single nurse. The job of school nurse has changed dramatically. No longer is a school nurse just handing out ice packs and aspirin. They have to develop detailed health plans for students with special needs, train school personnel, as well as manage student medication schedules and immunizations, among many other duties. “Over the years the medical conditions that the nurses are working with, they are