The Public School System wants to recruit and hire nursing student from the Northern Marianas College to perform nursing duties on each campus for the upcoming school year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Education Commissioner Dr. Alfred Ada said PSS is still in the planning phases to recruit nursing students from NMC.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will ask NMC if it is possible for their nursing students to come and do their practicum on a school campus guided by a registered nurse,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Ada said PSS has been trying to hire nurses, but they have been having a hard time recruiting them.\u00a0PSS needs the nurses to, among other duties, administer temperature checks on students and staff daily to ensure everyone\u2019s health on campus.<\/p>\n
Through the federal Education Stabilization Fund, PSS has been allocated $550,000 to hire 22 part-time nurses for 10 months.<\/p>\n
Ada said PSS has enough personal protective equipment or PPE supply and 300 wand thermometers, but will procure more so all classrooms will have one.<\/p>\n
Before schools reopen on Sept. 8, he said PSS will hire a janitorial service to do deep cleaning of classrooms, offices and bathrooms.<\/p>\n
During the recently concluded summer program conducted at Kagman Elementary School, Ada said that parents provided washable, reusable masks to their children.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur families and community members are working together in addressing this pandemic,\u201d he said. Our priority now is to reopen schools with caution,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ada said he will also ask the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. and the Governor\u2019s COVID-19 Task Force to test teachers, again if need be, before the start of the new school year.
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