Girl, 15, Sues School Nurse Over Pregnancy Test

NBC5i.com ^ | 6/17/05 | AP

[wagglebee]

When the girl's father asked Principal Chad Kelly about the pregnancy test, the father was handed a piece of paper citing a section of the Texas Family Code stating that a child may consent to medical treatment by a licensed physician if the child "is unmarried and pregnant and consents to hospital, medical or surgical treatment, other than abortion, related to the pregnancy."

This is absurd!

[SouthernFreebird]

What's absurd about it...any girl old enough to get pregnant should have some say over their health care.

[Stonedog]

The absurdity is the nurse believing she had some "right", "duty", what ever you want to call it to have this girl submit to a pregnancy test.

[Blood of Tyrants]

What if she is 11?

[Paleo Conservative]

Is this an infinite loop?

[wagglebee]

Is this an infinite loop?

I was wondering the same thing.

[DoughtyOne]

It's Groundhog Day. Heh heh heh...

[mabelkitty]

Little girl won't have to worry about paying for college now.

[Born Conservative]

[Born Conservative]

Practicing medicine without a license? This is a diagnostic study; I would think that the nurse would need a physician's order prior to performing the test.

[mabelkitty]

1. She wasn't seeking healthcare.
2. 4th Amendment violation (as stated).
3. Children are not able to sign into agreements. One must be 18 years old.
4. Clear HIPPA violation (Federal health privacy law). Big Time.

Nurse may lose her license.

[DoughtyOne]

In fairness, a number of people on the other thread suggested people wait to see how this plays out. They thought the nurse go short shrift when it came to fully explaining her position.

For the record, I railed on her.

[DoughtyOne]

I'm not sure how I pulled in the web address of this same thread, but I intended to link all of you to a prior thread.

Please excuse my error. This is the proper prior link.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1425672/posts

[Stonedog]

They thought the nurse got short shrift when it came to fully explaining her position.

I am a nurse. There is no explanation she could give other than the girl requested the test that passes muster. The girls life was in no imminent danger, she signed no consent for treatment, the nurse did not have a doctor's order for the procedure, the girls' family was not notified, I can go on and on. She should lose her license and be fined $25,000 for violating HIPPA laws.

[familyop]

School nurses all over the country are digging into personal business of families as much as they can, and many of those school nurses are likely homosexual women. Many of them are also organizing groups for girls, with the activities of those groups organized to teach the content of so-called women's studies (university courses in man hating).

[DoughtyOne]

If you'll note the wording here, the nurse seems to be saying the kid's story is not accurate. That's what they keyed on in the other thread. They thought the kid probably requested the test.

I appreciate your point of view, and believe me, if you read my comments on the other thread, you'll see I agree with you.

[Stonedog]

"I remember the incident," Eastwood said. "Is that how it went down? No, of course not." She declined to comment further, saying she wanted to seek legal advice.

If this is the best she could do, then it happened just the way it was reported. I'm not flaming at you, Doughty, just at this poor excuse for a professional.

[PAR35]

Girl, 15, sues school nurse over prenancy test
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1425672/posts

[wagglebee]

I did a search and used the term "pregnancy test." The link you gave me left the "G" out of the word pregnancy, so the search missed it.