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[quote=Anonymous]OOOOH, I just hate this!  First and formost, "clinic aide" may have very, very little medical training.  She/He is NOT a nurse.  If a nurse said it then I can see going to the doctor and paying a $25 co-pay to get a note.  But when a clinic aide suggests it, it's no more than a layperson suggesting it.

Our clinic aide sucks at our school - big time!  I had them call me one time because my daughter had a rash that she scratched and it was bleeding.  They insisted I come take her home.  It was eczema!  I refused to go pick her up.  And told them I wanted the principal to call me back.  The asst. principal called back and I discussed it with her, and she said, "Yeah, I can tell it's eczema, but the clinic aide didn't know (duh!).  You need to put it on your child's fom.  Now all 3 of my kids have it on their medical forms  b/c they all get it, and I don't want some non-medically-trained person telling me it could be contagious!

I had them call me another time because of "pink eye" in the spring when everything is blooming.  I KNEW it wasn't pink-eye - no crustiness (my daughter used to get it a lot as a baby).  But I had to do the same thing - bring her to the dcotor's.  As soon as she saw  her, she said "allergies." The doctor herself said it's quite frustrating because they get this all the time where they have to write notes saying that it's not pink-eye.  It's a waste of the doctor's time and ours.

Fairfax County Public Schools, hire some da*n nurses in the school, and stop relying on non-medically trained aides.  Most other school districts I know of have REAL NURSES who know what pink eye and eczema look like![/quote]

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