Re: School nurses tried to save child from abuse, but... Originally Posted by AtomicWoman 
the child died in spite of their efforts to get her help. This is a sad, sad, sad story and those nurses are probably running through the situation in their heads, trying to think if there was anything else they could have done:
The school nurse suspected Charleeni Ferreira was being abused at home, but the girl told a doctor at St. Christopher's Hospital that her family treated her "like a princess." When questions were raised about her injuries, Charleeni and her parents had ready, although sometimes conflicting, explanations. The welts on her hand? She accidentally stabbed herself with a pencil in the dark, the girl said. The torn toenail? She said a pipe fell on her foot. Her stepmother said it was an ingrown toenail. Blood tests revealed she was anemic, so there was even a reason for the black-and-blue marks.
Child-welfare workers eventually became so convinced that the family was not abusing Charleeni that they advised the family to contact a legal-aid agency if the school nurse continued to lodge complaints.
Full story at:
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_...re_hidden.html
In english, that means the child-welfare workers.........who were probably overloaded with many many cases they felt warranted more attention............told the parents to send a message to the nurse that basically said "Leave us a lone". Leave us alone applying to the parents and social workers alike.
Stories like this are becoming more and more common. As facilities/communities make cuts to Social Services, Police Forces, Fire Fighter forces.............HOSPITALS, there is less and less help to right the wrongs about us.
In the town I was living in when I went to nursing school, all but two police force jobs were reverted to part time. The only people interested in filling them were younger kids who went to the army for 2/3 years right out of HS and now were interested in joining the police force. I had no problem with the officers being young, most of them were gentlemen and very dedicated. There also were the ones who were not........drove around in the cop car talking to local girls all day. You could drive by them doing 75mph in the 35mph zone.........and, if there was a pretty girl standing in their window chatting with them, they'd act like they hadn't seen it. These types were the ones who stayed. The more respectable ones moved onto full time positions in other counties or left the force. End result........violence in the schools picked up significantly, burglaries increased and MVAs became commonplace.
Its the sign of the times. Take a look at some of the other threads. A physician getting stabbed in this one, a family member assaulting a nurse in that one. Yet, we pay excessive taxes to build sports stadiums and other non necessities. Its only going to get worse.
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