Lexey Swall/Staff Registered Nurse Beth Wipf, background, does a vision screening on first-grader Rian Alvarez inside the school clinic at Allen Park Elementary School in Fort Myers. Wipf, the region 9 representative for the Florida Association of School Nurses, splits her time between four schools in Lee County. According to the National Association of School Nurses, Florida's student-to-nurse ratio ranks 48th out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

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Lexey Swall/Staff Registered Nurse Beth Wipf, background, does a vision screening on first-grader Rian Alvarez inside the school clinic at Allen Park Elementary School in Fort Myers. Wipf, the region 9 representative for the Florida Association of School Nurses, splits her time between four schools in Lee County. According to the National Association of School Nurses, Florida's student-to-nurse ratio ranks 48th out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

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