Child dies after having asthma attack at school; no nurse on duty

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the poor, rural South. Never even heard of a school nurse except on tv shows.

I grew up in the poor rural south also and we always had a nurse on duty.

[Anonymous]

Never had a school nurse in our school when growing up. When I taught, the PHN came by from time to time--mostly to check immunization, etc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the poor, rural South. Never even heard of a school nurse except on tv shows.

I grew up in the poor rural south also and we always had a nurse on duty.

probably paid for with title 1 funding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in Canada, we don't have school nurses in ontario. That's just the reality. Seems strange to have one.

Yeah you have socialized medicine..which sucks. You are the country where Liam Neesen's wife Natasha Richardson died because he had to go almost two hours to a hospital that had someone who could treat head trauma. This was at one of your country's top ski resorts. In the states..she would have been to a trauma center asap and they would have drained the blood from her brain and she would be alive. Seems strange that our country USA is going backwards. awful just awful.

LOL and CANADA had a ONE YEAR maternity leave when you have a child.
PAID
Heck, some people even come back from mat leave pregnant with their next child, and YES another year off.

Canada sure does suck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's be clear folks about the term "nurse." Schools do not have an RN. In FCPS, where I work, we have a "clinic aide." She's a very nice 70 year old woman who has some training in things like administering meds for kids, doing vision and hearing screenings and taking temperatures. I'm sure she has also been trained to recognize asthma attacks.

She also likes to spend her day email blasting the entire staff with photos of cute kittens.

Um, I have two RN family members who are employed as school nurses in public schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in Canada, we don't have school nurses in ontario. That's just the reality. Seems strange to have one.

Yeah you have socialized medicine..which sucks. You are the country where Liam Neesen's wife Natasha Richardson died because he had to go almost two hours to a hospital that had someone who could treat head trauma. This was at one of your country's top ski resorts. In the states..she would have been to a trauma center asap and they would have drained the blood from her brain and she would be alive. Seems strange that our country USA is going backwards. awful just awful.

I have to agree here. Vail? Park City, UT? Lake Tahoe? If the hospital isn't within 2 hours there are on site helicopters waiting. Seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in Canada, we don't have school nurses in ontario. That's just the reality. Seems strange to have one.

Yeah you have socialized medicine..which sucks. You are the country where Liam Neesen's wife Natasha Richardson died because he had to go almost two hours to a hospital that had someone who could treat head trauma. This was at one of your country's top ski resorts. In the states..she would have been to a trauma center asap and they would have drained the blood from her brain and she would be alive. Seems strange that our country USA is going backwards. awful just awful.

I have to agree here. Vail? Park City, UT? Lake Tahoe? If the hospital isn't within 2 hours there are on site helicopters waiting. Seriously.

She refused medical care and left the ski hill. Her death had nothing to do with socialized medicine.

[Anonymous]

I realize that hindsight is 20/20 but that poor girl couldn't breathe and nobody called 911? Why? I just can't imagine what any of the adults in this situation were thinking...