Re: [IPp] Fwd: How Your School Nurse Can Make A Difference in California--NOT for Californians only

[Autumn Longoria <email @ redacted>]

What do we do, my daughters school has a nurse 2 days
a week and then a trained health aid the other 3 days.
Is this what you mean?????

Autumn
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> Hi all,
> 
> I'm posting this for those who might not have gotten
> an email from the ADA.  Whatever state you live in
> --if you have a school nurse who has been
> cooperative
> about non-medical staff members at school being
> trained to help with diabetes-related tasks, your
> help
> is desperately needed.  A safe-at-school agreement
> is
> in danger in CA because of opposition from nurses'
> groups.  It is hoped that letters from nurses at
> safe-at-school plan schools can counterbalance this
> opposition.
> 
> Please help if you can.  Nurses' groups sank a
> safe-at-school law in Illinois, my state, a couple
> of
> years ago, so now I think the IL effort will be via
> the courts, like CA.  A good outcome in CA is a win
> for every child with diabetes, wherever he or she
> lives.
> 
> Mary
> Mom of Chris, 24, Carrie, 20, Dan, 16 dz 01 pumping
> cozmo 03, aunt and guardian of Mike, 20, wife of Jim
> --- email @ redacted wrote:
> 
> > From: email @ redacted
> > Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:27:09 EST
> > Subject: How Your School Nurse Can Make A
> Difference
> > in California
> > To: email @ redacted,
> > email @ redacted,
> >         email @ redacted,
> >         email @ redacted
> > 
> > Dear Friends,  
> > 
> > I am sending ADA's recent action alert to you once
> > again  to suggest that you 
> > ask your child's school nurse to consider sending
> a 
> > letter to the California 
> > Board of Nursing no later than by Wednesday of
> this 
> > week to share his/her 
> > experiences about how delegation of insulin 
> > administration and other diabetes 
> > care tasks is a safe practice and  how training
> > non-medical school personnel 
> > enhances your school nurse's  ability to provide
> > needed and timely care to your 
> > child and other students with  diabetes. 
> >  
> > Happy Holidays! Thanks for your help.
> >  
> > Best,
> > Crystal 
> >  
> >  Once again, your help is needed right now to
> ensure
> > that California  
> > students are safe at school.
> >  
> > As you know, this summer the American Diabetes
> > Association entered into a  
> > terrific settlement agreement with the California
> > Department of Education (CDE)  
> > to resolve a lawsuit concerning the safety and
> equal
> > opportunity of  
> > California public school students  with diabetes. 
> > However, several  nurse groups 
> > disagree with a key part of the settlement and are
> > seeking to  prevent its 
> > implementation. Please click on  the link below -
> > even if you do not live in 
> > California - to take  action.
> >  
> >      
> > "The parents of students with diabetes do not
> > understand  this issue" 
> > That's what Nancy Spradling, Executive Director of
> > the California  School 
> > Nurses Organization (CSNO) said in a recent e-mail
> > to her members  about the many 
> > faxes that ADA Diabetes Advocates sent to the
> > Nursing  Practice Committee of 
> > the California Board of Nursing explaining why 
> > trained non-medical school 
> > personnel should be permitted to administer 
> insulin
> > in school. 
> > Here's what Ms. Spradling said in response to our
> > Diabetes  Advocates: 
> > "The parents of students with diabetes do not
> > understand  this issue, and 
> > have been flooding the Internet with pleas to
> other 
> > parents with the result that 
> > over 300 letters have been sent to the BRN. 
> > However, only 6 letters from 
> > school nurses were received."   
> > CSNO is wrong.  
> > It is wrong when it says that the letters sent to
> > BRN were solely from  a 
> > random group of uninformed parents. The letters
> came
> > from health care  
> > professionals (including nurses), adults with
> > diabetes, and of course,  parents of 
> > children living with this disease.  
> > It is wrong when it says that there were 300 -- it
> > was well over  450! 
> > And most of all, it is wrong when it says that the
> > parents of children  with 
> > diabetes, who love their children and who have
> lived
> > with diabetes  every 
> > moment of every day, don't understand diabetes
> care
> > and who can  safely provide 
> > it. 
> > It is, in a word, outrageous. 
> > Here's the link to ADA's action alert where you
> can
> > read  more and take 
> > action. 
> >
>
_https://secure2.convio.net/adap/site/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr009=bel9og0lt1.a
> > pp39b&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1110_ 
> >
> 
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> > Hope you will take a few moments to advocate on
> > behalf of  our children. 
> > Many thanks and Happy Thanksgiving! 
> > Crystal Jackson (Mom of Devin, age 17, dx 
> 10/11/91)
> > 
> >    
> > 
> >
>
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