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Prescription medications (controlled substance) in school
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<blockquote data-quote="FlowerGarden" data-source="post: 5600" data-attributes="member: 3068"><p>Glad that you are making the school aware of the situation. Our SD requires the nurse to hand the medication to the child, in her office, and watch. If the nurse is absent and the substitute is not a nurse, we have a nurse from another school in our district go over to give the medications.</p><p></p><p>Our SD was so strict, at one point, that 2 of my sons were taking Advil for pain (easy child 1 braces/jaw pain & easy child 2 sports injury). I had to send a dr's note and a note from me saying that they could have Advil in school. I had to provide a separate bottle for each of them. easy child 1 was on an overnight school trip and the nurse brought the Advil on the trip. BUT I got a call from the school about easy child 2. He needed Advil and the nurse had accidently taken his bottle of Advil on the trip! The school would not give easy child 2 easy child 1's Advil that was left behind. I had to go to the school, sign a paper saying that it was ok and then I had to give him the Advil from easy child 1's bottle! Now, the SD provides their own Advil as long as you have a note from the doctor and parent. </p><p></p><p>Luckily easy child 1 didn't need the Advil on the trip. Thank goodness it wasn't a mix up with a more serious medication. I believe that's one reason they switched to the school being able to provide the Advil instead. The nurse had so many bottles of over the counter pain medications from the students that it was overhelming to try to handle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FlowerGarden, post: 5600, member: 3068"] Glad that you are making the school aware of the situation. Our SD requires the nurse to hand the medication to the child, in her office, and watch. If the nurse is absent and the substitute is not a nurse, we have a nurse from another school in our district go over to give the medications. Our SD was so strict, at one point, that 2 of my sons were taking Advil for pain (easy child 1 braces/jaw pain & easy child 2 sports injury). I had to send a dr's note and a note from me saying that they could have Advil in school. I had to provide a separate bottle for each of them. easy child 1 was on an overnight school trip and the nurse brought the Advil on the trip. BUT I got a call from the school about easy child 2. He needed Advil and the nurse had accidently taken his bottle of Advil on the trip! The school would not give easy child 2 easy child 1's Advil that was left behind. I had to go to the school, sign a paper saying that it was ok and then I had to give him the Advil from easy child 1's bottle! Now, the SD provides their own Advil as long as you have a note from the doctor and parent. Luckily easy child 1 didn't need the Advil on the trip. Thank goodness it wasn't a mix up with a more serious medication. I believe that's one reason they switched to the school being able to provide the Advil instead. The nurse had so many bottles of over the counter pain medications from the students that it was overhelming to try to handle. [/QUOTE]
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