Policy Change and Organization

First off, I question why the school has a policy that medications must be kept in the administrative office. When I attended elementary school, the children had their inhalers in their bags or in their pockets. It was easily accessible and it did not get mixed up with other children's medications or inhalers. Furthermore, even if the nurse is shared by 3 schools, the very least this nurse and people in the administrative office should do is clearly label the medications and inhalers to whom it belongs to with specific instructions. The inhalers and medications should be extremely organized and in a room where extreme heat or cold will not detrimentally harm the medication's efficacy. Children's lives are at stake when medications are unorganized.

It is unacceptable that the school has the medications all mixed up and 911 has to be dialed. If this was my child in this situation... and my child is okay after dialing 911 and being care for by emergency treatment... at the very least I would demand that the school organize the medicine and consider changing its policy that medications must be kept in the administrative office. If no changes are made, I would go to the school district and state and file a lawsuit so changes are made.