School Nurses

[GoldenRivet]

What purpose do they really serve?

My step daughter had the typical 9 year old girl stomach ache. So she goes to the nurse, nurse calls mommy, mommy is at work so naturally mommy calls me.

honey-do list item for the day thus far is to drive to the store and purchase children's peto bismol (apparently if you give a 9 year old regular "non childrens" pepto bismol it will immediately erode their liver into a mush and kill them)

so store number one is sold out of Children's pepto

Store number two is also sold out of the stuff

Store number three has it!

so after a 3 store med-hunt for this crap and a sprite (there is a mystical belief within the 9 year old segment of this household's population that sprite fixes stomach problems) i go to the school and deliver the substances to the child who almost immediately recovers because its time to play in P.E.

medical miracle

so why didnt the nurse just give the kid a couple of childrens pepto and not interrupt my playing pac man, surfing subsim and clicking through a slide show of greatest cheerleader screw ups?

fear of litigation?

i mean - dont they keep a list of parents who say its ok for you to give my kid advil, tylenol, asprin, pepto bismol and euthanasia?

too much work though i guess to do that

i propose we rename school nurses to "wellness liaisons" because thats exactly what they are... liaisons that report your kids minor discomforts to you and then expect you to travel all over hells half acre playing House M.D.