Half of this school goes to see Dr. Blahblah at Gobley-de-Gook clinic. I have received upwards of 20 medication orders from that office in this school year alone - and considering I only have about 50 medications so far, that ain't something to sneeze at!
So I don't know why you are now telling me that the reason your child doesn't have his emergency medications for asthma, anaphylaxis, and seizures is because Dr. Blahblah first needs a fax from me on school letterhead. I can assure you, I have not had to fax Dr. Blahblah for every student. All the other parents have been perfectly capable of getting the doctor's orders and medications in to the school without it.
The fact that you don't know what information is needed, only that it has to be on school letterhead? Not a problem, I can fax the doctor some HIPAA release forms, if you'll be good enough to fill them out and sign them. Don't worry about giving me the fax number - I didn't actually expect you to have it either, despite that being the whole reason you came to the school today.
Gritting my teeth,
Nurse Fetch
PS: I especially appreciate how you brought along the 3 year old sibling and told them "don't touch anything, it's all caca in here."
They actually had to completely gut and re-do our front bathrooms over the summer because the boys' room just stunk all the time. The smell permeated the hallway down to the main office . . . welcome to our school, it smells like stale pee! Ugh. (And my clinic is directly across from it, so I got it full-blast.)
fetch, BSN, RN
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They actually had to completely gut and re-do our front bathrooms over the summer because the boys' room just stunk all the time. The smell permeated the hallway down to the main office . . . welcome to our school, it smells like stale pee! Ugh. (And my clinic is directly across from it, so I got it full-blast.)