The first question that came to my mind is: what's her parents doing? If this girl has been diagnosed of asthma, her parents have the responsibility of educating her the basis and precautionary measure of asthma. If the girl had the inhaler with her at that time, things would be a lot easier.
Next, when I went through the text, I found something else that could be improved in this scenario.
1) Medication kits should be kept at where they could be obtained quickly at need, instead of so called "admin office". What if the door of the office is locked?
2) The office assistant should be familiar with the meds kept there, instead of 'struggling to find her inhaler among many'. Otherwise I cannot understand why this kind of admin office exists. Maybe med appliances are part of school property so they should be kept carefully?
Of course short of nurse is a problem, and there's a lot of reason for us to solve it. But I want to address that, if the system I mentioned above is functioning well, the girl's asthma problem could be solved more efficiently, even without school nurse. We are facing health care worker shortage, so would it be possible for us to consider alternative approaches?
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