School nurses - thoughts on this?

[BeachsideRN]

What is your schools policy as it relates to emergent situations such as asthma attack? Do you email with the teacher or prefer the student be brought immediately to you?

Student suspended after carrying classmate to nurse

[Farawyn]

Rememberr the coaches that didn't call a code on the facedown non responsive kid we were talking about awhile back?

People are STUPID.

[NanaPoo]

I'm just trying to picture a student in respiratory distress and her teacher saying, "Okay, sit tight while I shoot an email to the nurse....now, I know I have her email address here somewhere. Where is it again?? What? You can't breathe? Oh, keep your panties on!

Dear...d..e..a..r..nurse..n..u..r..s..e..what's that nurse's name again, guys?"

First, most of my kids 4th grade and up carry their own inhaler.

But in any emergency or concerning illness such as dizziness or vomiting that occurs inside our 2 main buildings, the teacher calls ahead to confirm I'm in the clinic (I only leave for a 2 minute potty break or emergency) then sends the student with a classmate. We do have a "buddy policy" where no student may roam the halls alone during classes. 99.9% of the time it is a great policy and works well, particularly if the teacher sends a serious, well-behaved "buddy " that won't be led astray during hall roaming time.

[BeachsideRN, ASN]

This brings up a good point, why aren't teachers required to have CPR/BLS training? Seems like they have a good chance of being encountered with an emergency situation

[JenTheSchoolRN, BSN, RN]

This brings up a good point, why aren't teachers required to have CPR/BLS training? Seems like they have a good chance of being encountered with an emergency situation

Several of the staff at my school have this training - enough for one of them to be within 20 feet of the emergency (my school footprint isn't very large).

But, believe me, in this situation I'd be called, paged, AND likely have 3+ student sent to get me. Recently I had a student experience a seizure and I got 3+ phone calls, 3 students sent to fetch me, I was saying "I'm on it repeatedly" while grabbing my go kit and running. (Student had good outcome, in case anyone was wondering.)

Now...I have any had all of the above happen in a situation that was deemed an emergency and well, wasn't. I try. But it has worked well when it has be urgent, so for that I will take a few false alarms.

[Amethya]

This is why I have my cell phone at all times and I told my number to all the teachers and staff because in case I'm not in my office, I can run to where the problem is. They call me straight away if there's an emergency on my phone, and I run there. Thankfully the last few emergencies were solved without much danger.