Two dozen nursing students from the University of Maine will attend school clinics in the Bangor area to help newly eligible students in kindergarten through fifth grade be vaccinated against COVID-19. Kelley Strout, UMaine’s director of nursing and an associate professor, said 30 nursing students will be sent to 14 different schools starting this week in partnership with Penobscot Community Health Care. Two to four volunteer nursing students will be sent to each school clinic in Bangor, Veazie, Hermon and other cities in the area. Regional School Unit 22, with schools in Hampden and Winterport, and the Bangor School Department announced Thursday that they would start vaccinating children in school clinics on Monday. Early in the pandemic, the university graduated 38 of its nursing students earlier than planned to be licensed and enter the workforce early to help other front-line health care workers.

Source: Stuff November 08, 2021 01:42 UTC