In our district, the school nurse can’t even give the kids Advil without parental consent. No OTC drugs, no nothing.
Good : the school nurse can’t even give the kids Advil without parental consent...
This power given the school nurse or doctor was rolled into the common consent form, which could be easily signed by parents, who over run with permission slips/forms at the onset of school, did/would not realize this dispersion of birth control was inserted under patient/school/doctor confidentiality. It became "bundled"..
I am told by a teacher of a incident where a young teen girl and Maine student has asked for this form of protection after her irritability, unable to consentrate on classes at her school was traced to her mother's boyfriend being sexually agressive, and she was worried about getting pregnant. She was not aware it takes 30 days to build up the desired protection needed and expressed anxiety. Her comment was he "would not wait". She was not seeking his advances. She was given directly to the School's doctor who is on campus several days a week. Now is all protected doctor/ patient information. Whether it was reported to authorities, I have no idea.