rainydaysRN

I am trying to get opinions on whether I did the right thing. I am a new school nurse working with middle school kids. The very first day, I get a report that a student passed out and fell while enrolling. I run to the area where the student is and find her to be conscious and sitting up. We wheel her to the clinic and I assess her. She denies any dizziness, nausea, etc. and is alert and oriented. She did complain of a headache but said it was present before she passed out. She had not eaten all day and had been sick for a few days. It was reported that she hit her head on a chair when she fell. I palpated the area and felt a small bump and the area was sensitive to touch. I did not dig through her hair to visualize the bump. We applied an ice pack to her head. No bleeding was noted at anytime. Her mother was present the entire time. I recommended to the mother that she should take her daughter to be evaluated further by a doctor (but did not specifically recommend the ER). The next day, the mother came back to the school to speak with me and was extremely upset that I did not send her daughter to the ER. She stated she took her daughter to her doctor who discovered a laceration in the area where she hit her head. She was sent to the ER and needed a few staples. She accused me of not assessing her daughter well and not following proper protocol and she states that that is what the hospital told her. I am so shaken. Did I do the right thing? Should I have sent her directly to the ER? What would you have done? I am definitely second guessing everything now.