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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do not blame the school for "allowing" the fight to happen.  It was like a minute long in the hallway. School cannot prevent everything. I am sure in retrospect the nurse wishes she called 911.  But we have no idea what the kid said to the nurse.  For all we know he didn't say he hit his head to her plus we do not know if she had the benefit of seeing it on the security cameras.  And he did walk out on his own. A fractured skull can be deadly or the treatment can be Advil for a week. It is not like we can confirm she knew the injury was severe and ignored it.  [/quote]

Nurse is supposed to have eyes. [/quote]

I put myself (untrained in medicine) in the school staff position.  Kid has a fight which I did not see any or all of.  He gets up and walks away.  When he vomits I become concerned about a concussion.  I am calling parents both about the fight and the need to pick up.  Would I jump to oh this kid might have a skull fracture?  I also looked up skull fractures and while they sound incredibly scary, the Merk manual says they often require no treatment.   [/quote]

Any basic first aid training teaches you what to look for in a head injury and to always air on the side of caution and call 911. I think the nurse with even more training than  Basic first aid should have a mediately called.  Ultimately I think it’s a training issue, an attitude issue  and a school culture issue of perhaps not wanting to go through the bother and hassle of calling 911.   I bet you this is how they usually handle incidents and every other time they’ve been OK except this one time  and now some kid is in the hospital. [/quote]

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