DNR in public school

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I am interested in finding out if any of your schools systems do not recgnize a DNR status during school hours.

Specializes in Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, C-NPT, FP-C.
It's not the school or the district alone, it's in the state ed code. It's for school-based settings, there are other options for parents to choose for their kid. It's probably to cover for some employee that doesn't understand what DNR is and would think they were helping. Our policy is to perform CPR until EMS gets there and send a copy of the DNR with the kid to the hospital. Court-ordered DNRs are taken into account on a case by case basis, so if parents are really pushing for no assistance while their child is at school, then I suppose there is a way around it. I'm not advocating either way, just answering the original question.

I wonder what happens when EMS refuses to transport since once a dnr is presented we can't do anything and there is no point in transporting

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Then it probably ends there.

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It's not the school or the district alone, it's in the state ed code. It's for school-based settings, there are other options for parents to choose for their kid. It's probably to cover for some employee that doesn't understand what DNR is and would think they were helping. Our policy is to perform CPR until EMS gets there and send a copy of the DNR with the kid to the hospital. Court-ordered DNRs are taken into account on a case by case basis, so if parents are really pushing for no assistance while their child is at school, then I suppose there is a way around it. I'm not advocating either way, just answering the original question.

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Oh. My. God. What an absolutely horrifying mess. Because I'm sure performing CPR and then having EMS refuse to transport, and then the parents having to have mortuary come to pick up the bruised and battered body of a dead child who should have never had resuscitation attempted.....that's not traumatic for anyone....and I'm sure it creates no liability..... I swear to God the idiots we elect to make our laws destroy society just a little bit more every day.

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