Cobb County School Nurses

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We the undersigned, as citizens of Cobb County, GA wish to express our support for the nurses who serve our Cobb County schools and students.

We object to the stated intention of the Cobb County School District of eliminating the Itinerant Nurse positions and eliminating, by half, the positions of Area Consulting Nurse.

Combined these positions help to keep our students healthy and safe by providing a valuable service to our schools.

- They act as substitutes to manage the health of our many diabetic students when the daily clinic nurses are absent, so as to prevent parents from having to be called into school for each insulin shot.
- They accompany our diabetic students on field trips.
- They perform multiple in-service trainings for staff in the schools year-round. Such as teaching administrators, cafeteria workers , teachers, specialists and the like, how to recognize the signs of anaphylactic shock and administer lifesaving EpiPens; how to recognize asthma attacks and react; how to use external heart defibrillators in life or death situations; and many other in-service trainings.
- They deal with students physicians in complicated cases, in order to relieve clinic nurses to continue focusing on the ongoing number of students being sent to the school clinics.
- They interface with the Health Department on critical issues such as outbreaks of whooping cough or swine flu. Again to free up the individual school nurses to give full attention to the vast number of students who visit their clinics on a daily basis.
- And many other issues too numerous to list.

We understand that, in this economy, budget cuts must be made. However, we feel that this is an extremely dangerous way to do so. This type of cut in safety should never be among the first choices. Other cuts should be investigated first. In the not so distant future, a childs life, or many childrens lives, may well be compromised. Their safety most definitely will. All this can be easily avoided by simply saving this handful of valuable positions.













297 Signatures

  • JoEllen Smith
    • Comments
    • Our school nurses are invaluable to the well-being of our education
  • Esmeralda VS Meyer
    • Comments
    • Cobb County, use the funds intended for implementation of school radios and the Standards-based report card to continue the funding for school nurses. It is the correct thing to do!
    • Address; Zip Code
    • 30066
  • Jennifer Levitt
  • Allyson Eman
    • Comments
    • We need school nurses.
  • Laura Shutt
  • Caren Fox
    • Comments
    • As a mother of 2 children, one that suffers from Asthma and Acid Reflux and another who has allergies, I feel strongly about keeping our nurses employed by our schools. This will keep the teachers in the classroom where they belong - not attending to children who are not well.
  • daniele vanhemert
    • Address; Zip Code
    • 30062
  • Kate Brown
    • Comments
    • KEEP THE NURSES IN THE SCHOOLS!
  • Dana Wieskopf
  • Evelyn Ellis-Grosse
  • Cynthia Lamme
    • Comments
    • Please keep our nurses
    • Address; Zip Code
    • 30066
  • Al Meyer
    • Address; Zip Code
    • 4353 Stockton Way
  • lee smith
  • Cathy Berman
    • Comments
    • We still need school nurses
  • amy disalle
    • Address; Zip Code
    • 30066
  • Ann Zacharias
  • Lisa Brooks
    • Address; Zip Code
    • 30062
  • Shannon Pierce
    • Address; Zip Code
    • 30066
  • CathyJo Caputo
  • Yvonne C. Williams
  • Debbie Parsons
    • Comments
    • Keep our Children Safe!
    • Address; Zip Code
    • 3630 Stonehenge Way NE
  • Katherine Carlson
  • Barbara Bricker
    • Comments
    • Important petition--please consider!
  • Jessica White
  • Earl Bricker`
  • Jenni Hilton
    • Comments
    • Please keep the nurses! Our children need them. Happy nurse's week.
  • Kimberly Johnson
    • Comments
    • You are putting our children at great risk by even considering this!
    • Address; Zip Code
    • 30066
  • Kristofer Johnson
    • Address; Zip Code
    • 30066
  • Eileen Hammond
    • Address; Zip Code
    • 30066
  • Robert Hammond
    • Address; Zip Code
    • 30066
  • shelly weidner
  • Amy Ryan
    • Comments
    • Mom of 1st grade twins
    • Address; Zip Code
    • 2057 Tully Wren, Marietta, GA 30066
  • Monika Westbrooks
  • Tracy Stark
    • Address; Zip Code
    • 3643 Stonehenge Way Marietta GA 30066
  • James Stark
    • Address; Zip Code
    • 3643 Stonehenge Way Marietta GA 30066
  • Vandna Pandita
  • Judy Hester
    • Comments
    • The nurses in a school are necessary, especially in the elementary schools!!!!
    • Address; Zip Code
    • 3950 Straton Hall Way, Marietta, GA 30066
  • B. Barrington
    • Address; Zip Code
    • 30066
  • Rob Harris
    • Address; Zip Code
    • 2693 Quail Circle NE Marietta GA 30066
  • Sherry Werbke
    • Comments
    • В
    • Address; Zip Code
    • В
  • Rachel Duggan
    • Address; Zip Code
    • 4395 East Brandon Drive NE, Marietta, GA 30066
  • Sallymooney
  • Melanie K. Bales, RN
    • Address; Zip Code
    • 1075 Lakefield Walk, Marietta 30064
  • Patricia Porter-Sanders
  • Wanda Gispert
    • Comments
    • We need nurses to stay full time for the health and safety of all students.
    • Address; Zip Code
    • 30168
  • Demetria Bryant
    • Comments
    • Our children need a nurse at their school.
    • Address; Zip Code
    • 30126
  • Sandra Schrecengost
    • Address; Zip Code
    • 3636 Stonehenge Way Marietta, GA 30066
  • Cathy McCain
  • Pamela Jackson
  • Kristy Goodwin
    • Comments
    • Look at the Central Office to cut costs before you take this important service away!
    • Address; Zip Code
    • 30064