Nurse denies Student inhaler as he suffers asthma attack

That parent may want to take more of an interest in paperwork from the school. I can't believe she wasn't used to signing the right papers so that her son could have the medicine he needed.

The school should have been on that long before this happened to make sure everything was OK.

 

I can't believe they didn't call 911. If the kid is dying, at least call the paramedics.

My thoughts are that the nurse went on a power trip along with the administration. I guess they were trying to prove some kind of point to the mom about signing release forms. I understand the liability from their side, but from reading this, it did not seem they gave a **** about the child. How the hell do you watch a kid gasp for air and do nothing ?? I really they come down hard on this incompetent idiots.

 

*fixed

 

Easy money for that family. Glad the kid did not die. The nurse is a twat who should be fired.

 

Maybe they should require hospital/ER or EMT type experience; that looks like a combination of bureaucratic temperament and some kind of situational paralysis.

Like I imagine the campus-based PD officers are, nurses should be hired and trained with a command structure and autonomy separate from the school's.

 

Government schools should be abolished.

 

they need common sense more than a command structure.

this incident was not excusable in any way.

 

I hope that nurse, and the administration behind this pay the consequences. Idiots, the whole lot of them.

 

Were that my child, I'd absolutely pursue criminal charges against the nurse.

Red Tape > Life Saving measures

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Obviously not, I never said red tape was more important than life saving measures. I said that the parent may want to take paperwork more seriously to ensure that this kind of thing doesn't happen. The school should have contacted the parent prior to the incident.

A life comes first, but schools do need to protect themselves as well to prevent law suits. OF course they acted like idiots here, and may well be sued because of that.

 

School should never have taken the inhaler away.

They should have contacted the parent to clear up the authorizations, but removing prescribed medication from the kid without a very good reason for doing so was negligent. You call the parent, get a verbal OK for the inhaler that day and ask that the form be sent in the following morning.

Immediately removing needed medication from a kid is potentially more reckless than allowing it without the proper parental form.

 

Just to play devils advocate:

If the school had allowed him to take medicine and somehow he got sick could the mom sue the school?

The lack of common sense in this country is crazy, but the amount of litigation is ridiculous as well.

 

The nurse should be fired, like yesterday, and charged with child endangerment, which is happening (the criminal charge. she isn't fired... yet), and the parent(s) should sue the nurse (and whoever else might also be responsible) for civil damages. This is simply ludicrous. Worried about a signed form? Worry after you've saved the child.

 

This.

Basically in any situation you have to weigh
Common Sense versus Liability etc

Common Sense seems like it should win easily
until someone is sued for using common sense

Rocket River

 

maybe someone should choke that nurse to the point of unconsciousness to give her an idea what that kid was going through. what a moronic individual.

 

Where is the common sense?

I mean honestly.

DD

 

lesson learned today:

If you do not sign the paper to let some nurse to treat your child, he will be locked up ,refused his own medicine and die alone, even for a high-schooler.......

 

That's why they always told you to sign those papers.