Authorizes a school district to provide school employees with voluntary training in rendering emergency medical assistance to pupils with epilepsy suffering from seizures, including rectal administration of Diastat; and allows a parent of a pupil with epilepsy to request the school to have an employee receive the training if the pupil suffers a seizure when a nurse is not available.Again, my fear is that this will eventually become mandatory training. I most certainly will not volunteer for this.
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
I Will Not Be Volunteering For This Training
Two months ago I told you about a bill working its way through the halls of the Capitol, a bill that would allow--well, just reread that post here. It's now the law in California:
Surely there must be some other ways of delivering that drug.
ReplyDeleteOne would hope, but it doesn't seem so.
ReplyDeleteAsk a teacher to remove pants and underwear of a student in public. Yeah, what a GREAT idea, there will NEVER be lawsuits for sexual battery etc etc etc.
ReplyDeletePoliticians never think through the consequences of the legislation they write.
How exactly does one get trained to administer medicine rectally?? Whom do the trainees practice on?? That is as scary as the thought of having to do this in the classroom to a student.
ReplyDeleteDo you get the feeling that someone's brain was administered rectally while they were hashing this out?
Diastat is just Valium in a gel form. The drug is only for use in the case of clustered seizures, which is something that requires careful examination by the caregiver to know when the subject is having a cluster rather than a single event. This is a BAD idea...
ReplyDeleteIt seems ADA has made it where schools are responsible for as many medical operations as educational ones.
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