Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy
Rats are scurrying....
SHH:
If we were comparing this situation to my child's elementary school, then it would seem that his school is the same. In our school system, they cannot afford a nurse for every school every day. They have traveling nurses. The nurse visits my child's school once a week. However, on the days that she is not there, someone has to give out meds. In this case, it IS the receptionist, IE, the front desk lady who greets people and answers the phone. She is not a nurse, however, this appears to be fine to the school board. So, if Georgia has the same regulations as North Carolina, maybe its possible that in the event of a temporary absence of a nurse, that someone "designated" can dole out meds. Just a thought. But I do think the ACTUAL regulation should be determined for Georgia before conclusions are made as to whether this is illegal or not.
RobertBruce:
This makes sense however there are a couple of issues.
1. The actual nurse may handle the meds whereas the receptionist simply passes them out. HLA has no "traveling nurse"
2. If a kid at your sons school is really sick or injured he has the luxury of going home. In all likelyhood no more than a 20 min or so drive. HLA kids are are often to far from home to afford that luxury.
3. This receptionist is playing nurse full time not just dispensing meds she knows nothing about but providing basic medical care she is unqualified and untrained to do.
Anonymous:
In our public school the front desk lady is
allowed to dispense prescription medications with written approval from the parents and a Dr.s pre-
scription on file. However, if a child is
sick or believed to be sick, the parent(s) are
called immediately. Under no circumstance is the
receptionist or any other school official allowed
to give over the counter medicine even if they
obtain verbal approval over the phone. The parent
or other guardian must come in and give the medi-
cine him/herself. This is because there is no
qualified person serving in the explicit capacity
of school nurse or school physician.
RobertBruce:
--- Quote ---On 2006-05-29 05:59:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Seems like the only rats that are scurrying are Dysfunction and Robert Bruce. HLA clicks along....."
--- End quote ---
If you say so, they continue to feel the effects of our nasty truth telling campaign and things are most assuredly not "clicking along" or would like to explain the unpaid bills and drastic cutbacks?
RobertBruce:
--- Quote ---On 2006-05-29 07:40:00, Anonymous wrote:
"In our public school the front desk lady is
allowed to dispense prescription medications with written approval from the parents and a Dr.s pre-
scription on file. However, if a child is
sick or believed to be sick, the parent(s) are
called immediately. Under no circumstance is the
receptionist or any other school official allowed
to give over the counter medicine even if they
obtain verbal approval over the phone. The parent
or other guardian must come in and give the medi-
cine him/herself. This is because there is no
qualified person serving in the explicit capacity
of school nurse or school physician."
--- End quote ---
Again reasonable but not a policy HLA employs.
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