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<P><BLOCKQUOTE>A book published in 1989 entitled <U>Just a Nurse</U> stated that "the public wants a nurse to be a warm, 
caring human being.  The intellectual acumen needed to practice professional nursing is rarely understood." This 
statement applies to school superintendents and school committees who rarely seem to recognize the role of school nurses 
and certainly do not seem to understand the "intellectual acumen" required of these nurses.
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