Posted on 05/23/2012 2:21:14 AM PDT by Daffynition
Volusia County School officials stand by a Deltona High School nurse's decision to refuse a student his inhaler during an asthma attack, citing a lack of a parent's signature on a medical release form.
"It's like something out of a horror film. The person just sits there and watches you die," said Michael Rudi, 17. "She sat there, looked at me and she did nothing."
He said the school dean found his inhaler during a search of his locker last Friday. The inhaler was still in its original packaging -- complete with his name and directions for its use; however, the school took it away because his mother hadn't signed the proper form for him to have it.
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School nurses are not educators. They’re never called “educators.” They’re nurses.
Not here in Texas they wouldn’t.
That’s the thing about rules. They can seem stupid except when they’re needed. You know, of course, that students with inhalers have been known to share them with friends hoping for a high? [I saw it happen at the middle school where I taught — more than once.] You know, of course, that high school students buy and sell stolen prescription medication at high schools, right?
NOTE: This is not intended as a defense of the school nurse who could clearly see the student’s unopened packaged with patient name printed on it.
Do you have, or have you recently had, kids go through school? I did, and I can't count the hundreds of signatures that the schools asked for at various times. I don't know where they store the bushels of signed forms they ask for.
There's so many that it's easy to miss one.
Simply amazing that all your anger is directed at the parents based on unknown facts rather than at the school nurse based on known facts. Fact 1 - the nurse refused to administer medication to a KNOWN asthmatic and did not call 911 for a child who was having breathing distress. Fact 2 - they couldn't find the signed parental slip for a child who is a KNOWN asthmatic. You sound like you're absolving the school of any misconduct but place all the blame on "lazy parents" based on unknown facts. What a pompous ass you are!
>>They can seem stupid except when they’re needed. <<
Welcome to the USSA, Comrade.
Barring that, 911 should have been immediately called. The nurse is wrong....almost dead wrong! This kid had a history and that says a lot.
It sure does on the radio. No matter what sort of radio license you have (or don't), when you are in a real emergency, the FCC and everybody else will tell you, use whatever equipment is at hand and transmit on whatever frequency it will work on to get help. If anybody gets a citation in that situation, it will be the one who interferes with the emergency communications, not the one who is in trouble.
It may have been a rule, there may have not been a form on file... it really doesn’t matter. What has been violated here is a code of decency, common sense and morality.
She would have allowed this boy to stay in her office and let him die. Same as attempted man slaughter isn’t it? Doesn’t anybody see that this woman lacks the good sense and humanity to even live amongst us? How can she be a nurse and minister to people, let alone children, in need of help. She is nothing but a parasite taking money from the public. Only a sociopath would watch a child or any person, no matter what he or his parents had or had not done, smother to death in his own mucous.
There are so many good examples of how this is wrong. The good Samaritan who ministered on a Sabbath, the trials at Nuremberg where the criminals against humanity were “only following the law” or “orders”.
This even goes to responsibility to do the right thing even when nobody else does.
I would hire the biggest, baddest, most successful, rottweiler lawyer I could find and only ask for expenses as my “cut” of the settlement. There has to be one out there who wants to give this a shot.
I hate lawsuits and they are part of the reason we live in this mess we do but I’m willing to make an exception here.
Its called the “God of Government” ...and you will die unless you conform immediately...and perfectly.
I’ll forgive you for making a STUPID remark AND excerpting without context. Sort of Alinskyish, I think
That’s what every school nurse I’ve worked with has done— call home at the beginning of the year and then as needed.
Likeswise.
True, but then you need to assume that the ;Nurse and Administrator’s have an IQ above that of a rock.
I can't believe the people here are quick to jump on the nurse...the same people who whould blame her if she had given it to him and he died.
School nurses don't write school policies.
I doubt she would have "let him die." But don't blame the nurse...blame the policy!
Truth is schools are blamed for all problems in society today...including what once was considered parental responsibilities.
If I had had to work in a H.S. I would be on death row!
america’s youth is dying and legal mumbo jumbo and incompetence and a liberal agenda is killing them,
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