{"id":17983,"date":"2025-10-23T22:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/17983\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T22:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:33:07","slug":"parents-alarmed-as-broward-schools-cut-on-campus-nurses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/17983\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents alarmed as Broward schools cut on-campus nurses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0October 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM<\/p>\n<p>Parents alarmed as Broward schools cut on-campus nurses <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Jill Badlotto trusted her son\u2019s school to keep him safe. The first grader has a severe food allergy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe will go into anaphylaxis and he could potentially die,\u201d Badlotto said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">That trust was shaken when she discovered \u2014 through a Facebook post \u2014 that her child\u2019s school no longer had a nurse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s scary,\u201d she said. \u201cThey told me they would then teach my son\u2019s teacher, but she should just be focused on teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At Harbordale Elementary, parent Jill Gerner said she also wasn\u2019t notified directly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cMy child has an EpiPen and an inhaler,\u201d Gerner said. \u201cI love our office staff, but they\u2019re not medically trained.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Broward County School District confirmed 49 schools no longer have nurses this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a statement, the district said each school now has \u201ctwo trained staff members to provide basic medical aid\u201d and that \u201cstudents requiring skilled nursing assistance have a nurse assigned.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials said the model mirrors the one used before the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Badlotto said that\u2019s not enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThey shouldn\u2019t have that on their shoulders \u2014 that, God forbid, my son reacts and they\u2019re in charge of his life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Christian De La Rosa\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/59a14089-8518-45b5-b7.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Christian De La Rosa<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Christian De La Rosa joined Local 10 News in April 2017 after spending time as a reporter and anchor in Atlanta, San Diego, Orlando and Panama City Beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0October 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM Parents alarmed as Broward schools cut on-campus nurses FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-17983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}