Does this sound strange to you?

nj1grlcrus · Jun 19, 2007

Doesn't sound like a big deal to me, I know my MIL gets her flu shot from a neighbor who is a nurse, she brings it home with her.

anonymurse · Jun 19, 2007

I personally would not stand between a mother and her child whom she is trying to protect from the threat of infectious disease, but that's just me.

Atl_John · Jun 19, 2007

Theres no problem with that, nurses are able to give immunizations, it doesn't matter where its at. Its not like she was injecting him with morphine. I'd just leave this nurse alone, shes just trying to protect her kids.

preciousbaby621 · Jun 19, 2007

My neighbor is a school nurse in a school district that is 20 miles away from her home and the school that her child attends. The other day, I witnessed her give an injection (immunization) to her son that she had brought from her work. She said that there was a "standing doctor's order" at her school for immunizations.
Does this sound legitimate? Why wouldn't her son just receive the immunization at his school or at the doctor's office?
I posted in the "School Nurse" forum and received one response, so far. I have other concerns about this nurse's mental stability and her children's well being -- should I report this to someone or is this normal?

Don't they (schools) need records of where your child received his immunization and doctors signature?

Mrs. M. · Jun 19, 2007

The immunization doesn't seem like an issue to me, but the fact that you "have other concerns about this nurse's mental stability and her children's well being" does. Is there more to this, and the injection is just the latest thing to concern you?

LPN_mn · Jun 19, 2007

This really is not about protecting her child from the threat of disease. Where did she get the immunization. I work in a clinic and those immunizations are not cheap. If she did not pay for it and just took it from somewhere it is stealing. I have issues with that alone. I have to pay for my childrens immunizations why should she be able to steal them and get them for free. And people wonder why our insurances are so high.

icuwant2rn · Jun 19, 2007

My neighbor is a school nurse in a school district that is 20 miles away from her home and the school that her child attends. The other day, I witnessed her give an injection (immunization) to her son that she had brought from her work. She said that there was a "standing doctor's order" at her school for immunizations.
Does this sound legitimate? Why wouldn't her son just receive the immunization at his school or at the doctor's office?
I posted in the "School Nurse" forum and received one response, so far. I have other concerns about this nurse's mental stability and her children's well being -- should I report this to someone or is this normal?

what else has she done that makes you concerned about her "mental stability"? Also, I too, would like to know where she got the shot from. That is not just something that they hand out at the school.

preciousbaby621 · Jun 19, 2007

This really is not about protecting her child from the threat of disease. Where did she get the immunization. I work in a clinic and those immunizations are not cheap. If she did not pay for it and just took it from somewhere it is stealing. I have issues with that alone. I have to pay for my childrens immunizations why should she be able to steal them and get them for free. And people wonder why our insurances are so high.

TazziRN, RN · Jun 19, 2007

It doesn't bother me that she gave her own child IZs, but as already pointed out, where did she get it? I have never heard of standing orders for IZs at schools.

ceecel.dee, MSN, RN · Jun 19, 2007

Immunizations are free to her family? Who did she sign it out to?

I think this sounds strange.

inquiry123 · Jun 19, 2007

Thanks for the responses.

I thought that nurses that work in hospitals had to account for all medications and that they were not allowed to take medication from the facility (except for home health care type situations.) This person definately has health ins. and takes her children to the local doctor often -- would the child's primary care physician also give her an injection to administer at her home? I think that there would be some liability issues, etc.

I also thought that immunizations were supposed to be monitored in a care facility for a short time to verify any possible allergic reactions -- she let her son immediately go to a 2-hr baseball practice unsupervised and without alerting the coach, etc.

I get the impression that a doctor's order is necessary for a nurse to administer this type of medication. If a "standing doctor's order" is in place for her school, wouldn't it apply to only the students of that school? As some have said, isn't it at the very least "stealing"? At worst, wouldn't it be administering medication without a doctor's order? Wouldn't she have to document that she took the medication for whoever? Wouldn't she have to "chart" something in a patient file? Wouldn't there have to be a consent form signed regarding the immunization?

When she called and asked me to "hold down" her son so that she could administer the injection (doesn't like shots), I refused and asked why not just take him to the doctor's office. I couldn't get a straight answer. Like I said, I have seen/heard some weird things and I don't have a clue what was in that syringe.

I figure if I tell this to someone and I'm wrong, I'll just look like a jerk. If I found out that I should have told someone and didn't, I'd be sick if somebody got hurt.