[Born Conservative]

Freakin' anal retentive school nurse; I guess she forgot the ABC's of Basic Life Support: AIRWAY, BREATHING, and circulation. If you don't have A,B,and C, you don't got a student anymore! Besides, Albuterol is a fairly benign medicine (as far as chance of overdose). I wonder what this clymer would do if a child was having an anaphylactic reaction and there wasn't an order for an Epi Pen, but she had one available. Would she give the Epi without the order, or would she let the kid die because of school policy? I deal with school nurses every day, and I often wonder where in he** they got their licenses...

[Jaded]

Some of them are there because they couldn't cut it in a real Doctor's office or hospital. It's social hour to them.

[SarahW]

School nurses are the dumbest nurses...they can't get a better job anywhere else. Often they are merely LPN's with two years of junior college.

Dumb as rocks. Barely literate, with limited higher-order thinkng skills. Stuck on procedure and routine even when a sharper mind would notice that something else was required.

Frankly, many of the RN's I've had privilege to work with were not the brightest bulbs in the drawer...just average to slightly above average in intelligence. They had very narrow understanding of medical issues, despite...or perhaps because of...their nurses training.