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Teenager In Trouble In Inhaler Incident (Gives inhaler to asthma sufferer; gets expelled)
KPRC-TV/DT Houston ^ | 10.8.03

Posted on 10/08/2003 8:10:58 PM PDT by mhking

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To: SarahW
Nurses are trained to take care of patients; insurance and medical-legal issues are not comprehensively covered in nursing school, so I can see how you would view the nurses you worked with as being limited in depth and breadth of their understanding in these areas. In today's health care market, perhaps it's time for nursing schools to cover more of the business aspect as well as patient care, but the priority of nurses has always been to take care of the patients. Why are patients admitted to the hospital? For NURSING CARE. They aren't admitted to see the doctor more often (they can do that in his/her office), and they aren't admitted for diagnostic testing (that can be done outpatient; if they are admitted for diagnostic testing, it's to receive nursing care and surveillance after the test).

However, I guess I'm like you, I can't understand why the people who work as office staff in our clinic don't understand all of the procedures that we do, med we give, etc.; I guess THEY must be limited too :)

121 posted on 10/09/2003 7:21:42 PM PDT by Born Conservative ("Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names" - John F. Kennedy)
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To: mhking
Pathetic.

If I was the governor, I'd issue a pardon here.

I'm an asthmatic, and use the same inhalor(or proventil, same type of thing). Technically under school policy, I wasn't supposed to carry it with me. I did anyway.

In fact, I lent my inhalor to a friend who needed it after a track run. I did the same thing this guy did. Luckily, no jackass reported me to the cops or the school officials.

122 posted on 10/09/2003 10:45:39 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan ("I don't want to Raise Taxes" "I think everything must be looked at" - Jennifer Granholm. (D))
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To: knuthom
Yep. Mine had the same rule. I did what I normally did with rules like that. Break them.
123 posted on 10/09/2003 10:48:17 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan ("I don't want to Raise Taxes" "I think everything must be looked at" - Jennifer Granholm. (D))
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To: mhking
Idiots, plain and simple.
124 posted on 10/09/2003 10:55:57 PM PDT by Vigilantcitizen (Game on in ten seconds...http://www.fatcityonline.com/Video/fatcityvsdemented.WMV)
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Teen won't face charges for sharing inhaler

A Montgomery County teenager, expelled from school for letting his girlfriend use his prescription asthma inhaler, will face no criminal charges, his mother said Friday.

The 15-year-old's family reached an agreement with school officials and attorneys during a hearing at Caney Creek High School on Friday.

The boy can return after the Christmas holidays, but his family said they have decided he will be home-schooled.

On Sept. 23, the teen accompanied his girlfriend to the nurse's office because she was having asthma problems. The nurse reported he lent the girl the inhaler.

Family members say he was trying to help, and noted that the girl uses the same prescription.


125 posted on 10/11/2003 8:12:26 AM PDT by dread78645
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