Would you report the school nurse about this?

[minkydog]

OP, check the laws in your state. Many of the U.S. states have laws on the books protecting students and allowing them to carry inhalers, diabetes supplies, and epipens. I always encourage our parents to have kids carry their inhalers, if they can use them properly. And I like to keep one in the clinic too,because kids forget sometimes. And my diabetic kids ALWAYS have their kit with them at all times!

 

[Janell]

I would check the law books too. Not being able to carry an inhaler in a childs backpack doesn't seem right to me. That is the sort of thing you need right away.

I also think that a cell phone would be a great idea for your DD. And if the school doesn't allow that, then I stop car pooling. If you drop her off and pick her up, then you might have a better idea sooner of how she is doing. At least till she gets older, she is young and kids are kids.

Im so sorry this has happened and your DD has to deal with all this at such a young age.

 

[NHdisneylover]

Maybe she should get her DD a cell phone and her DD can call her and let her know she needed to use her inhaler (somewhat joking but it is actually a good idea).

My son has a cell with unlimited minutes. He rarely uses it for friends but has used it to call me when he needs his inhaler nearly every time he has needed said inhaler

I wouldn't report the nurse to anyone, I would take it as a warning to make sure your daughter is more proactive about her health though.

My son, now 17, always had an inhaler in the office when he was in elementary school. They failed me once, so we took it upon ourselves to make sure he had one with him at all times (against school policy, but too bad) and knew how to use it. We also had to make sure he knew how to keep a secret. They actually suspended him a couple years ago for having Chloroseptic sore throat spray with him and treated the situation like it was a street drug - and called the police. I'm not kidding. Idiots.

MY son went to a school last year that did not allow meds to be kept on the kids--even inhalers. They also refused to check them in and out daily. I asked what he was supposed to do if he had an asthma attack during his 45 minute walk/streetcar ride home? The answer was he should be fine until he gets home I tucked it into his backpack and told him not to tell anyone it was there unless he needed it and then to ask for the one in the office. If they could not get it fast enough, he did not have to pretend--just take his out and use it and I would take any heat for it. His teacher ended up knowing about it because he used it on a field trip. He asked for his office one and was told they don't bring the inhalers on field trips, they just call parents Thank goodness he had the contraband one in his backpack (his teacher agreed and did not say anything to the office and told me privately she disagreed with the policies and her DD carried her own inhaler too).

 

[Sparx]

I wouldn't report the nurse. I hate it when people jump to the top of the chain of command without going through the proper channels. I would call the nurse and ask why I wasn't notified, and request to be notified the next time. If it happened again, then I would go higher.

 

[ajk912]

I did not read all the pages so this may have been mentioned, but how about having your daughter call you from the nurse's office whenever she uses the inhaler? They probably have a phone in there..every nurse's office I have seen does..that way kids can call their parents and complain about their fake headaches. That may be the best route..and you can make up some excuse that you want her to tell you RIGHT then, before she forgets, so you can make sure you have enough or whatever.

Good luck!!!

 

[luvsJack]

Just a bit more info. The kids are not allowed to carry any medication on them. Not even a cough drop. It is the schools policy that they will call you when they dispense an inhaler or nebulizer treatment to your child. I have received these calls a; number of times over the years. My daughter had used a nebulizer only until this year. This is her first spring w/ the inhaler. I am not going to report the nurse, she made a mistake, she knows she made a mistake, and yes she should have called me.

I don't understand how anyone can not think that a phone call is justified. Asthma can be life threatening. If my daughter needed a bandaid for a papercut, I don't expect a phone call.

My daughter knew that the treatment helped her only minimally, but like I said, she isn't allowed to carry an inhaler in school, and she has just started learning how to use it. She is young, and didn't really know what to do, and she wanted to go to her dance party. I have ordered a third one for her to keep in her dance bag, since that is the only other place she goes once a week without me and once a week with me.

Its a learning process for us all, as she gets older and more able to do this on her own, it just caught me off guard that she didn't get the help she needed. Maybe by the time she got the treatment at school, it was already too late to help her since it didn't help her.

Our schools have this same policy about carrying anything like that. The students MUST go to the office; we only have a nurse a few days a month. If it is school policy that the nurse call you, I would most definitely report her if she doesn't call you the next time.

 

[Green Tea]

If I had signed the permission form for the inhaler to be given as needed, I would not expect a call. If I wanted to be in the loop, I would not sign a form and instead tell the nurse to call me to come administer the inhaler.

 

[princessmom29]

If I had signed the permission form for the inhaler to be given as needed, I would not expect a call. If I wanted to be in the loop, I would not sign a form and instead tell the nurse to call me to come administer the inhaler.

By the time you got there, the inhaler would likely be useless. I know it takes mor 30 min to get to DD's school in traffic. By that point and asthma attack has turned into a trip to the hospital. Kids having an attack need that inhaler right away, not in 5 min, 10 min or longer. If a child has severe asthma, it can mean the difference between tubing the child or not. I have seen a child in my high school classroom who forgot his inhaler go downhill in a matter of the couple of minutes it took to sen someone to the nurse's office for his extra.