How do you handle diabetic elementary students who stay after school?
First time ever encountering this situation.
The after school director is very nervous about this student.
I told him I am willing to stay after each day she stays and I will dose her for her after school snack.
I educated him, the assistant director, her after school teacher on hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia. Gave them charts on the 2
How to treat for hypoglycemia.
How to handle hyperglycemia.
She has a CGM.
I also went over her nasal glucagon in case of severe hypoglycemia which in her orders state for seizure/loss of consciousness.
Don’t hesitate to call 911 and call her Mother.
Is there anything else? How did/do you handle this type of situations.
Yesterday was her 1st day staying after school. I stayed a little while even though I will not get paid for it, but had to do what I had to do. After I left my mind was heavily thinking of them.
Our after school program is considered completely separate from the school since it is under the direction of our Community Education department and not the school district itself. In our program it is the parents who are responsible for educating and training the staff and it would be up to the program to decide if they want to hire a nurse to be on site after school. We have a nurse who works in Community ED but only 2 days a week and only during the day. We have certainly had parents demand an on site nurse but then that opens the door to requiring nurses to attend sporting practices and events, after school clubs, drama rehearsals, etc. and we won't go there. We often joke that parents seem to think we work in shifts like in a hospital.
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I personally have had to train the after-school teacher with a sign-off sheet of training and give them a tote of supplies that comes from the parent.