angel34

I have a similiar situation with a new school assignment. I ignore the principal lack of knowledge of professional school nursing, by providing professional school nursing services. A student at this school had been environmentally deprived. The school decided to evaluate, I was asked to do the vision, I wrote that the students' vision was best evaluated by OD and that the health assessment needed to be completed to gain more information about the students' cognitive abilities. The principal informed me that I should not have write that on the form, (vision report was mine). I could have argued with her, but choose to continue to obtain the OD report. After obtaining the report, which indicated that the student was legally blind in one eye due to congential glaucoma, that action spoke for my professionalism. The principal was upset because some miss informed individual thought the school district was going to have to pay for the exam. They didn't ask so I didn't bother to explain, that a student wearing glasses and with a obvious blue spot on the iris was under care, with parent permission the report could be obtained. In reference to the ADDHD and medication, there is a law now that schools can't recommend. I would remind the principal that the parent and the medical provider would have to make the decision. My evaluation of my situation is a lack of knowledge by the principal. I have informed my supervisor of the situation. Do a google search or Thomas legislative search engine. Do you have a supervisor?

Did you come to state conference in September? I had a display on certification and spent the first day of conference discussing certification. On NC School Nurse website www.snanc.org all of the Liaisons for NBCSN are listed with e-mails. My first suggestions is to digest all the information on NASN website, position statements, issue briefs, become a member of NASN, to get access to hot issues, ie HIPPA. Looking forward to hearing from you! :uhoh21: