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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have two kids now in MS. It has been my experience school nurses call for trivial issues, like a rash or stomachache, but then have sent both my kids back to class with broken arms. Both times the kids required casts. School nurses aren’t helpful in my experience.[/quote]

Wow. I'm a school nurse.. we arent perfect and we dont have X-ray machines at school. Maybe that nurse made a bad judgement call but to say we arent helpful? I bet you're a gem of a human.[/quote]

NP - You may be both a gem of a human and a gem of a school nurse and if so, I hope the families at your school treasure you.  School nurses, as a group, are subject to the same variability as any other large group - a few will be gems, a few will be duds, and most will fall somewhere in the middle.

My most memorable experience with the school nurse was when my 2nd grader (with no history of malingering) threw up.  The school nurse asked my very literal child if she felt better and since she replied yes (after she threw up she felt better than when she’d been throwing up) the school nurse didn’t call me.  My daughter went through the rest of the day feeling nauseous, which certainly wasn’t helped by the chunks of vomit in her hair.  Frankly, if I’d been one of the other parents, I’d have been upset that my child was exposed for hours to a sick child coated with vomit.

You may not have X-ray machines at school, but that’s hardly required to detect vomit.  How bad does your judgement have to be to decide that vomit isn’t a problem?
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