Can someone explain to me....

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why OH WHY parents think it is OK to send their child to school with 2 capsules in a crumpled plastic sandwich bag, then send the child to the nurse with this crumpled medication- filled sandwich bag and expect me to administer Susie's "antibiotics" to her without a note or a phone call even?!?!?

GAH!!!

Specializes in family practice and school nursing.

A parent of one of my special education students was a special ed supervisor in another school and always tried to send her own son's meds to school in a plastic bag...

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A parent of one of my special education students was a special ed supervisor in another school and always tried to send her own son's meds to school in a plastic bag...

Well, ya know working in the same school system makes her above the law. Her kids also didn't have to take quizzes or do homework. It's kind of like a grandfather clause, right? :eyeroll:

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Specializes in School Nursing, Hospice,Med-Surg.
Just Wow!!

I generally call the parents and tell them that (by state law) I cannot administer any medication without a signed order and that students CANNOT transport medications (as is clearly stated in our handbook and the several emails I sent out throughout the year). They are generally NOT HAPPY to have to come pick up the meds.... Tough tooties.

I've had a family that (more than once) has been talked to about not sending bottles of pills (including controlled ADHD meds) to school with their child on Fridays since that is the day the kids switch between their parents' homes. So mom got wise that her son's backpack might be looked in (meds were found when a teacher was helping him locate a homework assignment) so she sent the meds in her KINDERGARTNER'S backpack instead. So a five year old was carrying a baggie of focalin, abilify, and celexa into a classroom of other five year olds. Best part? Mom's a nurse, too.

Sneaky!

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Specializes in School nursing.

I've been brought random pills found on the floor in the school by an admin and done a pill look-up to discover it was Adderall and did not match any of the meds I have orders for and gave out at school.

I've also heard students brag about taking another student's ADHD medication outside of school. No jokes here. It is abused. I need proof your child needs to take it from a doctor and which isn't your word or a handwritten note stapled to a baggie with a pill in it... Not risking my job on that one. Nope, nope, nope.

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The very parent that will sent the pills in a baggie is the very same parent that will try to sue you when student has adverse reaction to that medication.

I was at a school once when a second grader brought an unlabeled, no parent note 10cc syringe full of liquid medication. Eventually found out it was cough syrup with Vicodin - yep prescribed for mom! 10cc?????????????????? What if the kid did not bring it to the clinic and took it herself or shared it????

Also had a staff member allow her elementary age student to self adminster her allergy meds. Yep, one day she gave it to another kid. I was on maternity leave and the principal freaked out. WELCOME TO MY WORLD!

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.
The very parent that will sent the pills in a baggie is the very same parent that will try to sue you when student has adverse reaction to that medication.

I was at a school once when a second grader brought an unlabeled, no parent note 10cc syringe full of liquid medication. Eventually found out it was cough syrup with Vicodin - yep prescribed for mom! 10cc?????????????????? What if the kid did not bring it to the clinic and took it herself or shared it????

Holy crow! I probably would have raised all sorts of cain over that one!!

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