Yet less than half of the public schools in the U.S. today have a full-time nurse on staff, posing a real threat to the health and well-being of our children.

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Monica works full time as a nurse.

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For sure, the cost of weddings and college put a dent in the household budget, that although Sue was a part time registered nurse and Jerry a full time pastor, was starting to show serious strains by the spring of 2005 when they began having trouble making even minimum payments.

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This includes funding to allow students training part-time to become nurse practitioners to start training full-time. (Applause.) We want to speed up the process where folks go from the classroom into the exam room.

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According to the National Association of School Nurses, only 45 percent of the nation's public schools have a full-time on-site nurse.

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Thirty percent have one who works part-time -- often dividing her hours between multiple school buildings -- and a full 25 percent have no nurse at all.

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Once this was explained to us that she could not take a day-time class because those students were full-time and would have expectations on her to meet for study groups that, taking time to say, nurse a baby, would interfere with!

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