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Nursing care from birth through high school, to itinerant technician עברית אחרי האנגלית

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עברית אחרי האנגלית School nurses  in Israel used to work both in tipat halav (well baby clinics) and schools, which means they had extensive experience caring for infants and school-age issues building trust over the years with families, and likely compliance with vaccines and other health interventions. This ended in 2002, when tipat halav and school nursing were separated, thus nurses lost that long-term connection they had with families and children, and the trust building that resulted. In 2002, school nurses performed hearing and vision screenings, reviewed the records of the children who accompanied them from tipat halav to school and were thus able to track health issues, and thus were in a position to encourage parents to have follow-up medical visits for chronic health issues.   That is long gone.   The narrowing of the profession to school age, infrequent presence at schools, and only the administration of vaccines, height and weight, and infrequent classro...