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In reply to the discussion: Nurse refuses student inhaler during asthma attack [View all]nashville_brook
(20,958 posts)59. she literally locked him in a room as he collapsed...locked him up!!
holy crap.
this is someone who doesn't need to be in a "caring" profession. there's plenty of other folks out there who're actually fit for the job.
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Any child with the ability to dial 9-1-1 could have filled in for her that day
Shampoobra
May 2012
#79
This is infuriating. That nurse should be fired. Why the hell didn't she call 911?
pnwmom
May 2012
#4
She should not just be fired, she should lose any license she has to practice.
FiveGoodMen
May 2012
#37
If she wasn't going to give him his inhaler, the "nurse" should have call 911
notadmblnd
May 2012
#11
It sounds like they got the mom on the phone, and told the mom to come to the school...
Ian David
May 2012
#14
My daughter goes to a public school, and every time we talk to her principal...
Ian David
May 2012
#136
When I was in High School, an emergency inhaler was one of two prescription drugs...
Ian David
May 2012
#138
"waiting for the facts" usually means "I've made my decision and I'm going to guess The Truth."
Posteritatis
May 2012
#90
Really? If you don't have all the facts, then why are you saying the student was a faker?
CreekDog
May 2012
#112
You say not so fast, we need facts, but ---FarPoint: 35. I think the teen went into drama mode..
CreekDog
May 2012
#113
My daughter keeps a spare inhaler hidden in her backpack for just such stupidity.
JoePhilly
May 2012
#22
I would say the phrase "happened conveniently" isn't a particularly impartial way...
CBHagman
May 2012
#146
My daughter has asthma and the same thing happened to her during her freshman year. The school
firenewt
May 2012
#48
I used to volunteer at a radio station that was located on a high school campus
Lydia Leftcoast
May 2012
#51
If I was that nurse - I would be willing to get fired for giving him his inhaler.
jillan
May 2012
#60
this is because 504 plans are about filling out the paper work and putting it in the drawer.
mopinko
May 2012
#63
interesting. story in WESH has comments by the mother in the comment section
w8liftinglady
May 2012
#73
OMG. If that had happened to my son, who has truly severe asthma, he would have
tblue37
May 2012
#81
That's gonna hurt a little bit when the Board of Nursing makes its ruling on it
Horse with no Name
May 2012
#82
Florida nurses are subject to discipline by the Florida Board of Nursing.
AnotherMcIntosh
May 2012
#84
Yes, the school backpedeling and saying it wasn't so bad is proof they did the right thing.
intheflow
May 2012
#96
The school administrator is at fault, not the nurse. They found the kid ON THE FLOOR in his office.
SunSeeker
May 2012
#121
Good info. I'm fine with taking back my other posts if this was not an emergency.
CreekDog
May 2012
#114
what I meant about the prescription label was that the medication was clearly prescribed by an MD
azurnoir
May 2012
#120
There was no current signed form nor doctor acknowledgement of the script
obamanut2012
May 2012
#153
so you defend the so called 'nurse' watching the kid collapse? and that's ethical in your mind?
azurnoir
May 2012
#156
I needed to be reminded of how we are informed by our own experiences.
LiberalAndProud
May 2012
#167
The posters/nurses who say they care more about their licenses than people's lives...
just1voice
May 2012
#115
so instead of dialing 911, you just sat there and watched the child have the attack?
SemperEadem
May 2012
#122
Minor functionary automoton without the good sense or spine to make the correct choice of action.
Stinky The Clown
May 2012
#161
Good Samaratin or Force Majeure law would have protected emergency action by nurse
Mimosa
Jun 2012
#172