tlessman

I agree thank you so much! We are asking for a release to talk with endo today at this next meeting.

Thank you! Just to clarify, this is for an insulin pump, not a CGM sensor

We are. We have been having meetings since he was in 2nd grade about this. Mom worked in the same building so did everything for him and he was never held accountable. Now that they are in different schools it's a bigger issue. Having another meeting today. I am just trying to see if anyone has any legal statues on requiring a nurse to change his pump site.

This student is in the EBD program and cannot be trusted with his cares at this point so the parent has always done it. In my 14 years I have never had a diabetic that was so irresponsible and non-compliant with his cares. Usually by the time my diabetics are in 5th grade, they rarely come to see me because they do their own cares. It's definitely a situation I haven't been in yet so just trying to navigate his cares now that he is in the middle school

We have a 6th grader in our district who's parent wants to REQUIRE the school nurse to change his site when it falls off. It falls off all of the time. He pulls it off (sometimes on purpose) or when he goes to the restroom or just playing. It is not on his IEP or diabetic orders from the Dr. that the nurse has to replace it. The nurse is new this year and mom is upset that she has to leave work to go to his school and put a new one on so wants the nurse to do it. I'm not seeing anywhere on boards that the nurse is required to do this and in the past we have all just kept an insulin pen or a vial of insulin at school in case of pump failure or if it comes out. Any thoughts on this? Thank you!

Our district has one district supervisor, 4 RN's and the rest LPN's for a total of 9 nurses for our district. We are in our ESP unit and have never felt welcomed. We talked with the current co-presidents who urged us to "hang tight and we can make this work". We did that and the RN's did a market analysis and are being paid $5 less PER HOUR than other RN's in similar positions in the state. We are currently each in a school working our normal hectic "nurse duties" plus doing supervisions of the esp's, health assessments and phone interviews and typing up evals and third party billing. We 4, as Rn's, are now getting the wage increase and it was approved by the school board and the esp negotiation unit. It in no way affected any money from the esp's or lpn's in the union and was a separate thing. There are some esp's that are very angry and are saying "you are only a school nurse why should you get more money, it's not like you are a trauma nurse" When we did try and leave the union the first time, the esp unit would not ok the release and we did our part and tried to "make it work". Now, however, we are wanting out and do not feel supported at all. Do any of you have any ideas on where we could turn and who we would be able to join with in a different union? I know we don't have the numbers that we would need to make our own union effective. The Esp's are saying "you should be happy about the raise WE got you". Us RN's have been fighting for a fair wage for 15 years and have put the work in ourselves without any help. We would love some advice please! The Lpn's in our district want out of our esp union also. We don't know what to do!!