Anonymous
09/26/2024 12:03
Subject: MCPS Health Aide, Health Technician, Nurse
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:PP here
I would just like to say the med tech at that school was great. She did a great job monitoring my child’s blood glucose, keeping track of supplies and contacting me when needed. She was also very patient when my child started doing some of the diabetes tasks themselves and it took forever!
The RNs that had oversight were all over the place. One was horrible and did not even check my childs blood glucose when she was in the office with a stomach ache. My child threw up and was dangerously low when i arrived at school.
Make good friends with the med tech. They are the ones doing the actual care. You want to feel comfortable with this person.
I'm really glad to hear that there are some medical expectations attached to that position. The techs (is there a different between health tech and med tech?) at our ES have called me or DH so many, many times over the years for playground accidents and refused to give us any information at all. I think it's a liability thing. The school wants to get sick or injured kids back in the hands of parents asap without prejudicing anything about diagnosis or action, and so they ultimately refuse to give not only advice but even context, even where an adult saw the incident occur. Sure, I'll pick up my kid on your say-so, but it's pretty hard to rely on their account alone to decide what to do next. So I hope that the tech staff are at least providing competent, necessary help to kids who are in predictable need of medical support.
Be aware and send your kid with their own first aid kit. a heath tech may even refuse to provide basic first aid to a student, it has happened. An aide who has worked in schools has said sometimes there are 10 students in health room but only one is injured from playground and so they send all of them back to playground. Kid who is asking for a damn bandaid is refused one leaving that injured kid to fend for themselves in a school bathroom. Principal as usual will cover up.
Anonymous
09/20/2024 13:51
Subject: MCPS Health Aide, Health Technician, Nurse
where can we find data from the first month of school such as this one from 2019:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/839606.page#16004364
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/839606.page#16004364
Anonymous
02/18/2024 09:02
Subject: MCPS Health Aide, Health Technician, Nurse
Anonymous wrote:PP here
I would just like to say the med tech at that school was great. She did a great job monitoring my child’s blood glucose, keeping track of supplies and contacting me when needed. She was also very patient when my child started doing some of the diabetes tasks themselves and it took forever!
The RNs that had oversight were all over the place. One was horrible and did not even check my childs blood glucose when she was in the office with a stomach ache. My child threw up and was dangerously low when i arrived at school.
Make good friends with the med tech. They are the ones doing the actual care. You want to feel comfortable with this person.
I'm really glad to hear that there are some medical expectations attached to that position. The techs (is there a different between health tech and med tech?) at our ES have called me or DH so many, many times over the years for playground accidents and refused to give us any information at all. I think it's a liability thing. The school wants to get sick or injured kids back in the hands of parents asap without prejudicing anything about diagnosis or action, and so they ultimately refuse to give not only advice but even context, even where an adult saw the incident occur. Sure, I'll pick up my kid on your say-so, but it's pretty hard to rely on their account alone to decide what to do next. So I hope that the tech staff are at least providing competent, necessary help to kids who are in predictable need of medical support.
Anonymous
02/15/2024 14:31
Subject: MCPS Health Aide, Health Technician, Nurse
Anonymous wrote:Is the Principal the back up health authority if a School Comunity Health Nurse is not on site at the school?
They'd probably call emergency/ambulance if the Nurse is at another school and can't get to your school in time.
Anonymous
02/15/2024 08:57
Subject: MCPS Health Aide, Health Technician, Nurse
PP here
I would just like to say the med tech at that school was great. She did a great job monitoring my child’s blood glucose, keeping track of supplies and contacting me when needed. She was also very patient when my child started doing some of the diabetes tasks themselves and it took forever!
The RNs that had oversight were all over the place. One was horrible and did not even check my childs blood glucose when she was in the office with a stomach ache. My child threw up and was dangerously low when i arrived at school.
Make good friends with the med tech. They are the ones doing the actual care. You want to feel comfortable with this person.
I would just like to say the med tech at that school was great. She did a great job monitoring my child’s blood glucose, keeping track of supplies and contacting me when needed. She was also very patient when my child started doing some of the diabetes tasks themselves and it took forever!
The RNs that had oversight were all over the place. One was horrible and did not even check my childs blood glucose when she was in the office with a stomach ache. My child threw up and was dangerously low when i arrived at school.
Make good friends with the med tech. They are the ones doing the actual care. You want to feel comfortable with this person.
Anonymous
02/15/2024 08:50
Subject: MCPS Health Aide, Health Technician, Nurse
Anonymous wrote:Is the Principal the back up health authority if a School Comunity Health Nurse is not on site at the school?
No.
When my Type 1 Diabetic child was in K there was no backup at the school. (And this was pre Covid). No school employee can be trained as a backup to administer insulin. If the med tech is out sick the nurse would come to the school at lunch to give the injection. I would sometimes end up going to the school at to do the injection. (I did this for months because the RN wouldn’t sign the delegation of task for the med tech.)
This was at a “good” close to Bethesda elementary.