Private Duty Nursing Services

The Vendor is required to provide private duty nursing services for the care of medically fragile students during the school day.
- These services support a student while they are accessing their education to ensure their health and safety during instruction and service time.
- The weekly hours for assignments vary with individual student’s needs. 
- New student assignments may occur at any time when a student requires access to public education and has qualifying medical need for nursing assistance. 
- A typical school day, excluding transportation time, is seven hours plus ½ hour of unpaid lunch-time and 180 days per year. 
- The nurse must be with the student for the entire school day including school field trips, as well as travel with a student if they use agency provided transportation to and from school.
- At least one qualified substitute nurse must be available should an assigned nurse be unavailable on any given day or part of a day. 
- A nurse’s absence, without back-up, is not acceptable because, by law, the student must be able to attend classes.