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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

Luckily, DCPS schools have an RN in almost all schools. [/quote]

Really? When I was at a dcps in nw  in the 80s, we hardly ever had a nurse on staff. I think she was there one day a week. If you were sick, you went to the office and begged to use the phone to call your parents and have them come pick you up. Sometimes the guy in charge of the phone (who later was sent to prison for dealing drugs) let you use the phone and sometimes he didnt. I once showed up at home after a miserable day of school with a 102 degree fever and bronchitis. There was no pay phone and in the student counsel election speeches every year the candidates would pledge to get a pay phone installed.[/quote]

When I was in DCPS in the 80's, we had a school nurse three days a week.  In addition, 5 days a week we had 2 "Red Cross Aides", me and my best friend. We were 10.  We had about 2 hours of first aide training that apparently gave us the ability to sit outside the nurse's office every day at recess and provide triage.  Once when a kid fell off the playground equipment, we went outside to check on him before we decided that the compound leg fracture with the bone sticking out warranted informing the nurse.  I cringe to think what would have happened if a kid with a silent asthma attack, the kind my kid gets, had come to us.  I don't doubt we would have sent her away untreated.

Luckily, things have changed, and Children's Hospital, together with the Department of Health, provides a full time RN to most DCPS and charter schools.[/quote]

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