School nurse denies inhaler

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as i've already commented in another thread on this subject, my thoughts as the daughter of a mom who occasionally had life-threatening asthma attacks are quite different that those of my usual rational rn self.

my reaction as a daughter would be something like, "what the [/i]was she thinking?" string her up by her

thumbs."

my rn reaction is that it's yet another overblown, one-sided, exaggerated yahoo "news" story. that the writer's only reference was her father didn't help things one bit. teenagers can fly off the handle quickly and with great passion and can also be drama queens (kings?) when the occasion calls for it. did he panic then calm down? have a

test he wasn't prepared for?

i'm inclined to believe the lpn used her critical thinking skills and applied logic as she been trained to do. i find it absolutely impossible to believe that she locked the door and he lay there flailing about on the floor. hmm... sound anything like an over-sized tantrum??!!

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Before replying, please google this and watch some of the other stories about this-for example, this one:

http://www.wesh.com/news/31109650/detail.html#ixzz1vsd2cwFv

There are always 2 sides to every story and the yahoo story does not even come close to being an unbiased account.

I read some of the comments on this story, including some by the mother and grandmother allegedly. Facebook petitions, people checking registeries for the nurses license number, calling her a fraud. Some of the replies are pretty nasty. I have a hard time believing that he was laying on the floor/ suffocating/ blue and no one including the nurse called 911. It's more logical to think he was being observed and neither the principle or the nurse felt 911 was warrented.

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Specializes in School Nursing, Critical Care.

Mrs. H. has a good point. This situation would be good evidence as to why it is ideal to have an RN in every clinic.

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I don't see why it would matter if the school nurse was an LPN or RN. Even an LPN knows that if a student is in a true asthmatic emergency, to give the inhaler. That doesn't change, no matter what your credentials are. Not all districts or states, for that matter, require that school nurses be RNs.

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