They can spend less per service offered. Spend less per employee by paying the employee less or providing fewer benefits to the employee. If they can’t find employees willing to work for the lower pay and/or benefits, they can lower the standards until they find people willing to try to do the job. If they are willing because they are high school drop-outs, though, they might miscalculate dosages or who gets what and that might be tragic but maybe they will do well.

They can provide less oversight, fewer bosses to also cost money. If they were needed to keep record of who needed what, kids might be hurt but if they weren’t needed, it might save enough money.

They can get more work out of each employee, have them work in more places in a single day or week. That is actually not providing the same service, but if requirements aren’t spelled out and monitored, who will know until it is too late?

They can reduce care provided, just not do all those things William mentioned.

These are just possibilities. I’m sure I missed some.

David for perfect service at zero cost

HOW?

WOW! If it was only that easy as you listed then as a HST I could had sat back and earned my $8 an hr pay with ease. But now lets look at reality and what I as a Former HST had to perform for the well being of our Children in the School in which I was working in. So they could come home safe and sound to you as a parent or grandparent. We did provide health care for the children we educated, we cared, we were the first go to when a child stopped breathing, or was found unconusion and needed CPR. I’m going to give you a little bit of our work day we dealt with kids that were Diabetic, Epilepsy,Asthma,Eating Disorder, Child Abuse (not always Guidance Counselor),testing for Hearing Impaired, Medication,Drug testing, Alcohol and drug abuse ( yes the kids would come to school drunk and high) try taking care of 4 kids throwing up, two kids drunk and you being called out to PE for a kid who is passed out and unconusion. Then you get out to PE to find another child who has Asthma and forgot his inhaler. So, now you are up to how many kids..and oh lets not forgot the parent who is waiting in the clinic pissed off because you called her to get her sick child with fever and throwing up. So, I gave you a little outline on part of our work area now lets take a look at the sensitive side, we are the person who holds your childs hair back when she is sick, who gets throw up on our scrubs, we are the one who holds pressure to a childs head when he is bleeding or has a broken arm or leg assuring the child they will be ok. We are the person who cares enough to stay after hours with your child when a parent can not be reached and the child can not ride the bus home. Let us not forgot our plans we had but we broke them to remain with the sick child. So the list goes on and on. I give my hat to all the Nurses and HST’s that are in our Schools today. I will close with this People you better know who is taking care of your child in the schools the ones (HST’S Nurses) who spent many of days and years with your child and knows your child may not be there next year. You will have new people and new rules look ahead look at the future of our children is the cut backs going to be worth a childs life? I don’t think a dollar saved here and there can take the place of our children. To those who are affected staff children and schools I wish you all the best. Parents you better be involved.

Very unsure about ALL this…

HST & Nurses need more than “informational”