School district plans to add nurse practionerSchool district plans to add nurse practioner
DEMING aA With teen pregnancy at such high levels in the state of New Mexico, educators are looking at schools to help lower the numbers across the board. The process will include the school nurse as the first person students will talk to, and then they will be referred to the nurse practitioner.
aThere is some anecdotal information that weave heard from other school districts and other cities that when they did something like this the teen pregnancy rate did drop, but we donat have data,a said DPS Superintendent Dr.