Special Needs Student Left Alone in School Nurse Office

[Purple_Scrubs]

http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/12003869533052/school-nurse-off-job-after-leaving-girl-alone-in-office/

This was a substitute School Nurse, the second time in a few weeks that a child was harmed by the actions of a Sub School Nurse (I do consider the psychological effect on this child to be "harm", even though no physical injury occurred). This is why I absolutely hate calling in sick.

[Heidi the nurse, BSN, RN]

It says she "has" retired, rather than she "had" retires??? I was under the impression from the article that, like mentioned, she had was subbing after retiring LOL. Just very confusing. And was she just subbing or filling in or whatever for the afterschool program? Our after school programs don't get a nurse.

[skoolrn, BSN, MSN, RN]

Here's some more info on the whole situation.... The RN is a retired school nurse who was working an after school program. She was required to sit in the main office to answer phones and buzz the door open. She evaluated and treated the child and sent her back to the teacher. The nurse went back to her "station" at the front office. Here's where it get's complicated. Did the child actually go back to class? Did she wander a bit and go back to the health office to avoid class? Did she return to class and then did the teacher send her back to the health office not knowing the nurse was not in the health office? When students were put on busses why did the teacher not notice there was a missing student? The bus driver didnt notice a missing student. The student was not harmed in the initial injury. I heard reports of a "head injury"... she got bumped in the face with a ball. The whole story is fishy and the School Department threw the nurse under the bus. And please remember this could have happened to any of us. Don't believe everything you read... newspapers need to sell papers.