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I had a 7th grade student come to school yesterday with a bottle of Focalin in his back pack. He brings it to me in the morning with no papers from the parent or doctor. (The bottle is labeled). I called the mother and told her I am not able to give her child his medication without a medication consent form that is signed by the doctor and her, and said she will need to come give him his med and also, that an adult needs to bring his medication to school. She said her car has been broken down for 3 weeks and she can't do anything about it. She said, "Well have fun with my son's crazy behavior then." I faxed her the medication form so she can sign it and send to the doctor. I come to work today, beginning of the year, DROWNING in shot records, and of course I still have nothing for this student. OF COURSE. He comes in to take his med and I tell him I cannot give it to him because I still have nothing from his mom or doctor. I call her and she is IRATE that i will not give him his med. She says that she faxed it to the doctor and it is out of her hands now and it is ridiculous that I will not give him his med. Her car is broke down (she tells me again) and she can do nothing. (NOT MY FAULT RIGHT???) She said her son is going to get sick now because he isn't getting his med. She says to just hand him the bottle and let him take his med. I told her to call my supervisor and I also had my principal call her. We heard nothing back so far. She was yelling at me so crazily. I am so stuck!!! What would you have done??? Of course now I think something is going to happen and he is going to get sick because he has no meds. She has gotten to me and I shouldn't let her. She could take the bus, cab, call a friend. She has had 3 weeks to figure it out. she said her son has been in the district for 5 years and expects me to use orders from previous years. UGH!!

The parent's signature on the Med Authorization Form has always been adequate "permission" for the HCP offices to sign and fax back. Maybe I have just been lucky :)

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"I do this more often than not because if I wait on a parent then it could be half the year before I get all my paperwork completed. Plus, I can hand the paperwork to the parents and they will royally screw it up. They will fill in all the blanks where the doctor needs to fill in. Like for an inhaler where it says dosage and a parent writes "Squeeze it two times when he can't breath". Oh, thanks. Got it. lol That cleared it up."

That just made me laugh out loud! Ive already gotten several students with asthma who need their inhaler that i do not have and the parents do not answer their phone. so frustrating!! My district has stock nebulizer medication in case of an emergency and oxygen as well now. It is very comforting. We also have stock epic-pens and a glucometer so we can check blood sugars if needed. The last district i worked at had none of that and we couldn't do anything without a doctor's order. not even let the kid gargle with salt water if they have a "sore throat". Now it is the greatest ever. I have a sore throat....here gargle some salt water....i feel so much better....back to class. love it!

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I do this more often than not because if I wait on a parent then it could be half the year before I get all my paperwork completed. Plus, I can hand the paperwork to the parents and they will royally screw it up. They will fill in all the blanks where the doctor needs to fill in. Like for an inhaler where it says dosage and a parent writes "Squeeze it two times when he can't breath". Oh, thanks. Got it. lol That cleared it up.

haha that's awesome... i replied to you but I didn't know how to quote you. i guess i do now. :)

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update on my original post.....

of course the student has NOT come in for his 330 med. my principal is so awesome....she got on the intercom and announced for him to come to the nurses office AND she called the mom for me. also, he has football practice at that time and even the coach is saying that is going to be hard to send him. he has even talked to the mother. my staff is awesome so far. she called me the other day after being horrific to me and was an ANGEL. it's a trap...... i know it!

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"We also have stock epic-pens"

haha...i said epic-pens

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I only have two more schools out of eleven to train on the stock epic-pens! ;)

Crazy parent: on the registration form it says her daughter is allergic to peanut butter. I called her to remind her we do not have a peanut-free campus and to ask about the allergy. Seems her daughter as a toddler grabbed a celery stick filled with peanut butter and had an anaphylactic reaction that sent her to the ER.

I asked about whether she was given an RX for an epi-pen. She said no and didn't think her daughter needed one. "My daughter knows how to recognize anything with peanuts in it". Really?

I asked her if she made lunches at home to make sure of this. Mom said no. Again, "my daughter can handle it". Her daughter is in elementary school.

Mom refused to follow up for epi-pen. :sarcastic:

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I only have two more schools out of eleven to train on the stock epic-pens! ;)

Crazy parent: on the registration form it says her daughter is allergic to peanut butter. I called her to remind her we do not have a peanut-free campus and to ask about the allergy. Seems her daughter as a toddler grabbed a celery stick filled with peanut butter and had an anaphylactic reaction that sent her to the ER.

I asked about whether she was given an RX for an epi-pen. She said no and didn't think her daughter needed one. "My daughter knows how to recognize anything with peanuts in it". Really?

I asked her if she made lunches at home to make sure of this. Mom said no. Again, "my daughter can handle it". Her daughter is in elementary school.

Mom refused to follow up for epi-pen. :sarcastic:

I've had a bunch of these this year!!! I have a set of parents (split custody)where one says the child isn't allergic and doesn't need anything, one parent says they are......I told them to send in an MD note to clarify...

mc3:cat:

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Had a parent come in because she kept her son home that day. She claimed he had mosquito bites and that they NEVER have had them before. They come from Chicago.

She demanded I perscribe him an Over the Counter anti itch ointment so she can get it for free from Wal-Mart.

When I told her I don't prescribe medication she told me "but your a Dr. Ain't you?

I had to explain that Doctors go to school for up to 10-12 years and that I received a much shorter time. She then asked which clinics in the area she could take her son. I gave her the information for a clinic we work closely with that is 2 blocks away.

"Aw Hell no! I ain't walking that far!"

I tried.

She also wanted me to diagnose her son and then allow her son to have an excused health absence for his record. I told her I couldn't do that, since mosquito bites weren't a valid reason to miss school. Only vomiting, fever, or other serious health condition. I let her know she could get a doctor's authorization for it, but I wouldn't give it to her.

"So my son has to sit in class and itch itch itch? He's going to be uncomfortable and won't listen."

Yup.

To top it off her son was in the front office wearing sandals, a tanktop, and shorts. He had his mom's wireless bluetooth speaker blasting rap music while turning in circles swinging an open umbrella.

That about takes the cake for me. 3 weeks on the job.

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Specializes in School Nursing, Hospice,Med-Surg.

Wow!

If we missed school for mosquito bites down here in the south, there'd be about 3 school days per year!

And you didn't whip out your Rx pad & write up a hydrocortisone script?You can get it at Dollar Tree but I imagine that might require excessive effort on her part. This mama sounds like a real gem!

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Um... I live around Chicago and we TOTALLY have mosquitoes. Lots of them. The city is on a freaking lake.

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Specializes in kids.
Have lots of parents like this in my district. Also get a lot of expired medications and expected to give them because "I can't afford the new prescription now." I always have to apologize and state it goes against the policies put in place by the district. That seems to appease most parents.

Had a note on a student that parent wanted notification every time he visited the health office. Said child came in with a headache. I called home and she said to give him aspirin. Our district implemented a new policy of not allowing ANY meds, prescribed OR OTC to students. I kindly explained the new policy to her (second day of school). She began to berate me and tell me I had to "get your SH** together."

I apologized and stated it was a new policy for us as well.

Oh well. Lucky it's only been one tough parent so far.

Still hasn't seen me to sign the medication consent form for the aspirin.... 2 weeks later....

hopefully mom never gave him "Aspirin"

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Specializes in Critical Care.

Sound like this parent is just an a*****e. She had access to a fax machine. She could have signed it and sent it back to you. And she could have faxed it to the kid's doc herself (or asked you to fax it) and this could have been done on day 1. I'm sorry you have to deal with the insanity.

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