#New job ads show just how desperate NYC is to hire school nurses

Apparently sick with worry over Mayor Bill de Blasio’s promise to put an RN in every school, officials have resorted to running rah-rah recruiting ads that practically beg care givers to apply.

“Our children need you now — more than ever!!” said one desperate post on Sunday. “Please apply ASAP!”

School experience wasn’t required, said the pitch, which promised “expedited” training to help applicants through required courses.

A second ad offered $50-an-hour for a 10-month assignment. A third boasted there were “over 200 openings with availability in all boroughs!”

There are actually 359 open positions, which Education Dept. honchos have just three weeks to fill before schools reopen Sept. 10.

It might already be too late.

City nurses point out that every new hire must undergo six weeks of training before they can work in New York schools.

“They don’t have those nurses, and they are not going to have what they need in enough time,” said one veteran RN. She said the training was key to stopping the spread of COVID-19.

Kim Watkins, a parent leader in the Upper West Side and Harlem, called the mayor’s promise “horse manure,” in a public meeting Wednesday.

“To view it with this level of priority, to wait so long to deal with it and take this attitude … I think is very disrespectful to the significance of the pandemic itself and the concerns parents, families and teachers have relentlessly expressed,” Watkins told The Post.

The DOE said all nurses will be trained on COVID-19-related protocols in their first week back to school, receive a supply of N95 masks, hand sanitizer, alcohol wipes, gloves and gowns.

“School nurses are frontline heroes and medical professionals who have continued to show up throughout the pandemic, and we’re so grateful for their work. As we move closer to the school year, we’ll work with the Office of School Health to provide school nurses with the latest COVID-related trainings and supplies, which will play a role in their duties as health professionals in school buildings. They have our full confidence and support,” agency spokesman Nathaniel Styer said.