Hi everybody,
I work for an elementary school as one of the support nurses. today a student came in with her finger splint off wrapped in coband/some sort of elastic wrap tape. We have no documentation/doctor's note whatsoever about her having a splint. Anyways we put the splint back on her finger but I didn't not want to wrap it because of liability, plus I did not even know why or how she got this injury! I called moms work and when she came, she was super upset yelling at me. Stating that she is the "athletic director" at the high school and how she doesn't understand how I can't wrap her daughters poor finger. She also said she wraps athletes frets "all the time" and does treatment. As for as I knew, athletic directors aren't doctors? Anyways, I explained to her how she needed a doctors note, how I can't apply ace bandages or wraps. It's like a prescription. She continued to yell at me stating that "she knows my scope of practice" and what I can and cannot do. Then she continued to yell at me for keeping her daughter there and missing class.
I told her she can talk to my district nurse and she threatened to "email her".
I talked to my district nurse right after the incident and she was right on my side about everything, how she will talk to the parent/"athletic director" about our rules and policies.
Just wondering what you guys would have done.
That ended my day. Lol!