More than one-third of schools across the country do not have a full-time on-site nurse as students face higher rates of chronic illness, an unprecedented youth mental health crisis and the waning COVID-19 epidemic amid a national nursing shortage.


School nurses from around the city gathered at UFT headquarters for the annual celebration honoring their work in the New York City public schools.

For school nurses, who are one to a school building, the best part of the School Nurses Appreciation Dinner, held this year on May 10 at UFT headquarters in Manhattan, is often mingling with colleagues.

The question of whether school nurses have received the recognition they are due was top of mind at the UFT School Nurses Chapter’s appreciation dinner at union headquarters on May 11, which is National School Nurses Day.

UFT members and other frontline workers were showered with confetti on July 7 at a “Hometown Heroes” parade celebrating them for their work during the COVID-19 pandemic in one of the largest ticker-tape parades in New York City history

For nearly two decades, Zully Brons-Bailey worked simultaneously as a school nurse and a hospital nurse in the Bronx. Now serving 640 students in grades pre-K through 8 at the Cornerstone Academy for Social Action in the Bronx, she tackles everything...

This group shares its bargaining unit with Audiologists and Supervisors of Nurses & Therapists .