"Made in a facility that processes nuts"

Why isn't the principal doing this?

I'm not a school nurse, so might not fully understand, but why isn't the principal making the notifications? I understand the health implications, but to me this seems an administrative matter.

Thanks for your replies. I have to say, the school culture here in this private school is such that the parents are EXTREMELY entitled. They will argue with me on just about everything because they're wealthy. Even when it comes to something as simple as picking up a child with a fever, they somehow try to twist it into being the nurse's fault that the child had the fever in the first place. These are literally high class thugs. I've had a mom argue with me for about 20 minutes, with her husband on speaker because they didn't think it was necessary for them to pick up their child who was severely wheezing all day, and even after med. administration the wheezing didn't clear. They casually told me 'he wheezes all the time' and that they want to go light on the meds. The staff doesn't even support me; they tell me to come check out a child for head injury and then they warn me not to call the parents. I've had a teacher here force me to take the phone from a child who was talking to her mother, just because, as he says, they don't allow children to talk to on the phone with their parents. I've only been here for about a month now, but it's halfway through the year and I only have about half the medication forms I need, the other half won't bring them in and they'll make up all sorts of lies and excuses such as, the physician will charge them money for the form (for christ sake, if that is even true, these parents sure could afford to pay). My boss who is the head of health and safety literally tells me she's busy every single time I approach her, before I even open my mouth, she says she's busy. All day, she runs around looking flustered, but I notice most of the times, she's just chit chatting with every staff member she can get a hold of. I even asked her if she had a minute to go over something very simple and she flat out told me, 'no' and then went about talking about how her coffee pot went missing again and this and that. I still don't have my permanent computer because it's been 'sent out for repairs' going on a month now so documenting is difficult because my computer is so slow. Sorry for the winded reply...the principal critiqued our last nurse for being too vigilant about vaccinations and that she was too unpopular with staff and parents!! Well I wonder why? Admin isn't doing anything because they don't want to do anything that might make themselves 'unpopular' with parents. I've never been to a school where nearly every parent has gone into a long argument with me and have involved admin merely because they didn't want to pick up their child.

Sounds like it is time to polish your resume.

i'm gonna try to stick it out for a bit, straighten things out…what really puts me off though is that all the staff keep bad mouthing the last nurse and yes, it seems like she had a bit of an odd personality, but aside from that, seems like they just criticize her for doing her job.

My son goes to private school so I get where you are coming from about SOME of the attitudes (we deal with attitudes no matter what though). I would definitely bring up the safety and law aspect to get your admin behind you. Do you have a PTA or a parent group you can meet with? Is there a newsletter? I think you need to get your face out there, get your name out there in a different way and than typical. This most likely is a small tight knit group?