Nurses

Recording artist Darius Rucker remembers mom with nursing scholarship at MUSC.

Despite the critical role of school nurses in student health and well-being, only 65% of public schools nationwide have a full-time nurse. South Carolina has one of the highest projected nursing shortages in the country.

According to the South Carolina Office of Rural Health, 27% of South Carolinians live in rural areas. When it comes to access and affordability of healthcare in these areas, experts say needed services and resources are often hard to come by.

In Part 2 of South Carolina Public Radio's four-part look at how COVID-19 affected nurses and their profession, two ICU nurses talk about the systemic 'wounds' the pandemic exposed and the need for more than accolades on the job.

News from hospitals in much of the United States right now is bad. In major cities like Detroit, in population-dense states like New Jersey, medical…