epi pen law

[mycsm]

new epi pen law..any teacher/staff member hosting, supervising a school sponsored event, (field trip, homework club etc) must be trained to give an epi pen. having a hard time signing off this one teacher cause honestly I don't feel comfortable him cutting a bagel with a plastic knife, let alone inject a child...he is the lead teacher on an after school event, I am training everyone involved, but still not comfortable.

PS: I am not going, cause now that we can train our "delegates", I am not needed

[OyWithThePoodles, RN]

I would simply let my admins know that I am not comfortable signing him off, its your license on the line if something goes wrong because you sign the paper saying he is competent. I may have laughed a little when you said you didn't trust him to cut a bagel. :)

[OldDude]

I'm gonna use that cutting a bagel with a plastic knife reference! You know, Sully touched on something that I don't care for at all; training staff members to do medical stuff. I do not train staff to manage diabetes; we use an outside provider. I particularly am not comfortable with training staff to administer epi-pens. It's not that I'm worried about the medicine hurting a kid that didn't need it but it would kick up such a dust storm if that happened. The last few years I've been "facilitating" allergy training, which includes administration of epi, etc. I show the staff the allergyready.org Back to School training program which walks them through the A to Z of managing allergies at school. Afterward I make myself available for questions but I'm not actually "training" them. It may not make any difference if I ended up in court but it makes me feel better about not being the only name associated with the training if something goes afoul.

[mycsm]

Thanks guys...I brought my concerns to the admin and he stated clearly...do what I need to do to feel comfortable, so I engaged other teachers attending the event and trained them, and will have them hold and admin the epi pen.

relief!!!