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November 23, 2007, 6:07 pm PST
nurse response
Quote From: jb7ctxWhat are all of your thoughts on schools having a "full time" nurse at the school? My son will attend kindergaten this year. He is a diabetic child on insulin. The school he will be going to has a part time nurse. She goes to different schools each day throughout the county. I had to sign a piece of paper when I registered him for school this year stating that the school would not be held responsible for anything that happens to him at school. The schools are granted immunity. I later found out that if anything happened to my son at school pertaining to his disease, that I would be held responsible for "medical neglect". I dont think this is fair. We are now pushing the school to get a full time nurse for his care while he is at school. I have contacted the American Diabetes Association and got a copy of all of my sons "civil rights". He cannot be discriminated against because of his diabetes. I was told that he has to have his glucagon kit kept at school so that way the school will be forced to get a full time nurse. I have also contacted the Board of Education about this and the man said that if the school got a full time nurse, the school will have to pay for the full time nurse. (I thought the Board of Education pays for this). Either way I think the school is going to be upset that we are requestiong a full time nurse, because they are not wanting to pay for one, but I know that the school is receiving funds for my child attending there and I think they can use those funds to pay for his nurse. Whats a concerned mother to do? I want to have "peace" in knowing that my child will be taken care of properly while in the schools care. I think ALL schools ought to have a full time nurse. Anything can happen to anyone while being there. What do you guys think? I like the idea of having a full time nurse at school...but...at the elementary school that I work at, we are required to raise almost $16,000 to support her salary. I teach at a school were almost 50% of our school population are considered severely low income and the other half of our school are struggling middle class. The money that our school receives for each student goes to pay for curriculum and extra support in the classrooms. Our school spends all year fundraising and "moneying" our parents to death, just to try to pay for our nurse and because of this our school is suffering in other aspects. Our PTA doesn't have any money to support the teachers, staff, students, or programs in our school. A school nurse is a wonderful idea, but they need to figure out another way to get the money to pay the salaries.
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