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Anyone know if there are nurses able to provide injections at school?

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My fiances 13 year old son has been diagnosed type 1 diabetic. We're concerned whether he'll be able to self inject at achool. Anyone know if there are nurses agencies able to provide injections at school for newly diagnosed children please?
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Jo
 
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The Pediatric DSN at the hospital will talk to the school and get a Care Plan in force - if there is a school nurse she could probably oversee his jabs but doubt she would be able to administer them. At the very least the school will HAVE to arrnge somewhere safe and private for him to jab.

The best plan is to get him independent asap.
 
I've not been in the school system for a while but when I was diagnosed, the school said the nurse couldn't administer the injections, I had to do it myself or my mum.

And as trophywench says, he has to be given somewhere private to inject. if the school says he has to inject in the toilets, tell them no as its not a clean place (I was told I had to use the toilets - it was horrible)
 
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Thanks so much for the responses I really appreciate it. We're worrying about him being able to inject himself by the time he returns to school. Like most children(and adults), he's finding it hard to understand why him. We both have to work and seriously concerned about what will happen if he hasnt got his head around self injecting by the time school starts after the Easter holidays. We were desperately hoping there may be an agency nurse we could get to help until he's confident doing this himself. very stressful.I'll talk to him about not injecting in the toilet.

Thanks again, I really appreciate the responses .

Jo
 
If there isn't an agency nurse, maybe ask his DSN for help.

Hope you manage to get something in place
 
When my wee one was dx type 1. The hospital sent a DSN round to the school and about 6 teachers all volunteered to be trained in giving her her jabs. The wife works at the school so luckily she is there to give them, but the staff wanted to learn how anyway. The school nurse isn't there all the time and goes around several schools. So the onus on giving jabs was down to both me and my wife Jackie. Would any of the teachers be willing to step up if he's not up to self injecting by start of school? They also need to supply a clean room/area where he can inject in private. Our school have set up a small room.
 
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Thank you for the response, it's a really good idea and we'll discuss with the school to see if it's feasible. It's such an awful situation and trying to work out how to make it work.
 
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