Drugs are bad...M'kay!

Seems like it but it appears she didn't. We do need more info to know exactly what happened.

Everytime I've had my breath knocked out I thought I was dying.

 

In this case, the problem is both of them IMNSHO, of course.

 

A good friend of my step-son died of an asthma attack at 19 year old. The risks are real.

The parents forgot to sign a form, the prescription was on the inhaler. A reasonable person would have given him his prescribed medication during an attack that can cause death. Then had the parent sign the form. No issue, no problems. A professional is supposed to apply sound judgement. Letting someone be put into a life or death situation because of a signature is not professional. Yet, the nurse probably makes $75k plus and has a sweet compensation package for being a "professional" without common sense or the ability to apply it.

 

Oh pipe down. I'm trying to make some money down here.

 

Certainly the rule makers are the most at fault (I did include them in my list) but that is ZERO excuse to just stand by. If standing by while someone is harmed due to a rule is deemed OK then we as a society are doomed. For an obviously extreme example all guards at the Nazi death camps were following orders. Contrast that to the Safeway employee that stepped in to stop some moron kicking his pregnant girl friend despite the rules. I know which one I want around me.

 

If the published news story is correct, and since people can easily die from an asthma attack, is the nurse not qualified to recognize an emergency medical situation like that? Since she blindly followed the schools policy, at the risk of the child's life, why is she being allowed to even be in the medical field in the first place? Did she graduate from the Wall Mart school of nursing?

Also, if the mother's comments are correct about his consent form being in the school system for years, where is it? Do parents have to resubmit that form more than once or how does that process work?

If, in fact, the news story is correct, and I had to rush to a school to revive my own child because some dumbass nurse, teacher, or school Principle refused to allow the child to use his required medicine, I would have been jailed for punching someone in the nose just to get their attention.

Damn, this story is more irritating than the news story I read this morning about some guy getting a ticket for "throwing trash on the ground" after dropping a dollar bill on the ground while trying to hand it to a man in a wheelchair.

 

Its amazing what governmental nonsense people are willing to put up with these days.

 

Yeah, it might not have been however, was anyone there that could foretell the future well enough to know that it wasn't serious? How would one tell? If the kid was passing out and falling to the floor why would the nurse assume that it wasn't serious? Just saying......

 

Sorry Mongo but I have to disagree. A good friend of mine died from an asthma attack. It came on slowly (over the course of a couple hours) and by the time he got home to use his inhaler it was too late. His windpipes had closed and his inhaler was of no use no matter how much he used it apparently (I wasn't there. His parents found him dead). Yes he should have had the inhaler on him at all times but for some reason that day he didn't and it cost him his life.
Point being that just because he was "ok" doesn't mean he actually was.
Regarding the paperwork...those forms are a pain in the ass and I've had to fill them out numerous times because either my kid forgot to hand them in or they were lost by the secretary. I wouldn't be so quick to assume that the parent didn't fill it out. It doesn't sound like she did but one has to infer that from the article as its not stated.

 

Nurse need to be waterboarded. We can see how she likes not being able to get a breath and thinking she might die.

 

Mongo, you relish the role of Contrarian, don't you.

 

How can he not reply "No"?....

 

You'd like to think that, wouldn't you? You've beaten my giant, which means you're exceptionally strong, so you could've put the poison in your own goblet, trusting on your strength to save you, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But, you've also bested my Spaniard, which means you must have studied, and in studying you must have learned that man is mortal, so you would have put the poison as far from yourself as possible, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.


Sorry, this is what came to mind

 

There's something missing from that article. Oh yeah, the other side of the story.

 

Why? Many didn't need the other side of the story in the Trayvon case.