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Nurse refuses student inhaler during asthma attack

DELTONA, Fla. -
Volusia County School officials stand by a Deltona High School nurse's decision to refuse a student his inhaler during an asthma attack, citing a lack of a parent's signature on a medical release form.

"It's like something out of a horror film. The person just sits there and watches you die," said Michael Rudi, 17. "She sat there, looked at me and she did nothing."

He said the school dean found his inhaler during a search of his locker last Friday. The inhaler was still in its original packaging -- complete with his name and directions for its use; however, the school took it away because his mother hadn't signed the proper form for him to have it.

School leaders called Sue Rudi when her son started having trouble breathing. She rushed to the office and was taken back to the nurse's office by school administrators and they discovered the teen on the floor.

"As soon as we opened up the door, we saw my son collapsing against the wall on the floor of the nurse's office while she was standing in the window of the locked door looking down at my son, who was in full-blown asthma attack," Rudi said.

Michael Rudi said when he started to pass out from his attack, the nurse locked the door.

"I believe that when I closed my eyes I wasn't going to wake up," he said.
The Director of Student Health Services, Cheryl Selesky, said that parents must sign the medical release form each year, which allows students to carry their prescribed drugs with them in school.

This year, the district had no record of his Rudi's signature, said Selesky.

"I mean its common sense if I saw an animal on the street in distress I would probably stop to help, why wouldn't she help a child," Sue Rudi said.
But Rudi is a senior, and his mother said the district has had records of his asthma throughout his years in the school.

She thinks her son could have died because of a technicality.

"How dare you deny my son something that we all take for granted, breath," said Sue Rudi. "Why didn't someone call 911?"

Selesky said the district is looking into whether proper procedures were followed by the school, and while nurses can't give medications without the proper authorization, it is district policy to call 911 when a student cannot breath.

Selesky could not explain why 911 was never called.

"I understand if you can't give it to him call 911," Sue Rudi said. "Why did you not call 911?"

Sue Rudi said she worries about the next student caught in a similar situation, and has filed charges against the nurse with the Volusia County Sheriff's Office.

"I want to press child endangerment charges for something they did to my son," Rudi said in the 911 call.

Local 6 reached out to the school district officials for more information, but they declined to interview.
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Welcome to the 1st world where people do crazy things.

Edit: Oops forgot
Source: clickorlando (With Video)
 
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My brother broke his arm in 2 places at school a few years ago.

The school had the medical aid details. that allowed the ambulance to take him to hospital and for him to enter hospital but they would not give him any pain meds until my mom arrived 2 hours later as she was far away at the time....
 
ChilliGirl said:
My brother broke his arm in 2 places at school a few years ago.

The school had the medical aid details. that allowed the ambulance to take him to hospital and for him to enter hospital but they would not give him any pain meds until my mom arrived 2 hours later as she was far away at the time....
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Can not react till I have all the info esp seeing that I broke a bone in my hand and also where refused pain medication till after the X-rays and doctor consultation.

But refusing to give someone his asthma pump that had his name on it is just plain dumb esp if you had a signed slip from last year.
 
oh mein gott. they had the emergency number 911!!!! the child was in distress already. the school is in big poop.
 
ChilliGirl said:
My brother broke his arm in 2 places at school a few years ago.

The school had the medical aid details. that allowed the ambulance to take him to hospital and for him to enter hospital but they would not give him any pain meds until my mom arrived 2 hours later as she was far away at the time....
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I was stung by bees in school, ended up battling to breath and the fsckers would not take me to a doctor or let me go home on my own accord. When the doctor saw me he went ballistic in a big way as I could have died from anaphylaxis, he kukked everyone from my parents to the school out.
 
Some people are so hidebound by bureaucracy that they cannot think properly or exercise judgement. My cousin's son (name: James Mason) in England is a chef in a top hotel in Leicester and was invited to the local high school to talk to them about cooking skills. Some busybody at the school body researched him and found that someone with a similar name (James Massyn) had been convicted of child molestation in 1989. This person had died in prison in 1994. But she told the head master that it would be "unsafe" to allow him to speak to the children. When the head-master found out what this woman was trying to do, he invited him anyway. So this woman called the local newspaper and tells them that a convicted peadophile is to be allowed in the school The reporters (as might be expected) got it all wrong and were camped outside his house the next morning, shouting questions at him and would not let him out his driveway. He called the Police and after an hour they came, but told him that he must proceed with caution since they had received death threats. During the day his mother found out from the newspaper the origin of the story and called this woman, who was clearly mentally challenged, but she would not back down, saying the prison might have made a mistake. It was pointed out that the prisoner, if he were still alive, would be 96 years old whereas her son is 31. Still she would not let it go. The newspaper printed an apology on page 22, some 2 months later.
 
The lawsuits are also crazy in The States. They have to cover their asses against any and every conceivable instance.
 
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