Guess teachers have now received some training to attend to students who have medical needs.
"During the past two school years, teacher Julia Keyse had to enforce an unusual rule in her kindergarten and first-grade classroom: No interrupting while she pricked Caylee's finger to check her blood sugar and adjusted her insulin pump.
"They were so good. They would just sit and wait," Keyse said of her class at Etowah Elementary School in Henderson County, N.C."
As it turns out, workload of school nurses has increased since 1975, when the federal government mandated that schools accommodate disabled students, clearing the way for children with feeding tubes, catheters and other serious medical conditions to attend school.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080715/ap_on_he_me/school_nurse_squeeze;_yl...
What do you think of this? Do you think it's a good idea to train teachers to handle more minor medical issues for students to assist nurses? Do you think someone with more training needs to handle these issues?
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We really look to have as many people sign up here as well because on any given day they could also be receiving a phone call from another school system.
January 10, 2009 - 8:15ampiano teachers
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I totally agree! Teachers have enough to deal with, including so much bureaucracy that they barely have enough time in the classroom for teaching.
Teachers of special needs children are already dealing with stressful situations without much support. There is no way I'd want that teacher responsible for administering medical care to my child.
Write your Congressman/woman - this is a ridiculously risky proposition for our teachers!
July 16, 2008 - 5:45pmThis Comment
I don't like the idea of this at all.
It places too much responsibility on teachers who may only have CPR on their health resumes. Using needles or pin-prick tests and assessing the results are jobs for nurses. The risks are that the teacher could unintentionally make a mistake and hurt a child. Not to mention lawsuits. It's unfair on both teacher and child as well as the rest of the class who have to sit and wait for medical procedures to be completed by their teachers.
But I guess we are spending our tax dollars in other places at the moment so it's shamefully not a priority.
July 16, 2008 - 2:43pmThis Comment