Fyi

[Tippy-ta-ta]

did you know that in the state of Oklahoma the public school employees are not required to have any CPR/First Aid training. my 4 yo daugther recently fell at school and hit her head, she was bleeding pretty bad and the school nurse had called me because she felt that she needed stitches. Thankfully she didn't I took her to the ER and the doc said that it was more superficial and that she woulnd't need stitches.

When I asked her teacher about whether or not she was certified in CPR/fFirst Aid training, she said she was but that it is not required for them. But most of them are. BUT NOT REQUIRED ???

That floors me. It really scares me to know that if my child were to fall on the playground, become unconcsious and/or unresponsive that there MIGHT be someone there who would know what to do at that very moment, rather than spend 5 minutes trying to find someone who does. that 5 minutes could determine life or death for my child.

It really scares me...

I sent an e-mail to the State Education Superintendent regarding this. I am considering going to my state rep, congressmen, senator, legislator.ect. To get it to be mandatory that ALL public school employees be certified in CPR/First Aid.

[Aneroo, LPN]

Is an on-site school nurse not sufficient? It's not like kids choke or have fibrilating hearts everyday.

Everyone has their cause, if this means that much to you, I'm not going to try to convince you otherwise. I personally think the education system has much bigger fish to fry.

Because not every school has a school nurse, and a lot of us have 2-3 schools, so we're not at our school all the time.

[Aneroo, LPN]

yes the education system does need some work, but why not include some basic first aid? Anybody can take first aid thru the red cross. Why can't the teachers? why shouldn't it be necessary? I work in a mental health clinic and everyone here from therapist to billing personell need to be CPR certified every 2 yrs. What are the chances that someone is gonna have a heart attack or fall and break there leg? Probably the same as with it happeing at school.

I see this is something you're *very* passionate about. If you feel THIS passionate about it, start emailing and calling your state legislators and your school board. A lot. Or you can raise the hundreds of THOUSANDS of dollars it will cost the schools to do this, since they can't even get money from the state to buy books for our kids to learn, in school. Who would have thought??? Maybe we can sell some cookbooks to pay for it!

[Tippy-ta-ta]

I see this is something you're *very* passionate about. If you feel THIS passionate about it, start emailing and calling your state legislators and your school board. A lot. Or you can raise the hundreds of THOUSANDS of dollars it will cost the schools to do this, since they can't even get money from the state to buy books for our kids to learn, in school. Who would have thought??? Maybe we can sell some cookbooks to pay for it!

I have e-mailed the state board of education. I do intend to e-mail the legislature as well. The point that I am making is if it is required for daycare providers to know CPR/First Aid, why should teachers be exemp? this is just one more example of how the school system is flawed.

[Tippy-ta-ta]

Not many nurses want to work for the $75/day sub pay. When I am off, there is rarely a sub.

As far as teachers being CPR trained, our local EMS will come to the school and do it for free, so cost is not an issue. The teachers are not interested and it's in the contract that they do not need to be. Our teacher's aids are trained, however. So is our swimming teacher.

i wish they would do that nationwide and make it part of the contract.

[bobnurse]

I personally dont see why we dont train the students. I think it would be a great idea to incorporate CPR into the school system. The AHA has a CPR in Schools program.

[Tippy-ta-ta]

That would be great Bob. They could use that as part of there health class or something to that effect. I'm sure the Red Cross or the AHA would love that idea.

[Tippy-ta-ta]

November551

i did not realize you were being sarcastic. I get that now..sorry if my post was rude.

I reread some of the post in this thread and realized you were making a sarcastic remark. LOL.