A school nurse in Florida is under heavy fire after refusing to give a student, who was having an asthma attack, his inhaler. The nurse claims that she couldn’t find his parent consent form and refused to hand over the inhaler or call 911. According to the student, who is 17, the nurse shut the door in his face, sat at her desk smiling, and refused to get him help. I understand the importance of consent forms, but if you can clearly tell that a someone is asking for help and it’s your job to help them you should do what it takes. Read more below.

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A school nurse in Florida is being accused of denying a student his inhaler during an asthma attack because she couldn’t locate his parental consent form.

Michael Rudi, the student at the center of the scandal, and his mother, Su, joined Fox and Friends to tell their story.

As he was struggling to breath, Michael said he also had to fight to get help. He claims that at one point the nurse even closed the office door on him. Michael said, “I put my head to that window once I got to that door, and she was just sitting there smiling at me. She had a grin on her face, and I kept jiggling the door, begging for help. I got to the point where I couldn’t even jiggle the door knob.”

Su Rudi said that when she was notified that her son was having trouble breathing, she called the nurse and asked her to give Michael his medicine. When the nurse refused, Su asked her to call 911, but the nurse said, “No, I don’t have to.”

The school has issued the following statement about the situation:

“The school’s Licensed Practical Nurse and an administrator regularly checked on the student while waiting for his mother to arrive. At no time did they determine the student required the assistance of an ambulance. The student was never in a full-blown asthma attack.”

Su Rudi blasted back saying that the nurse needs to be removed from her post because “if she doesn’t recognize when someone is having an asthma attack, struggling for breath, then she does not need to be in that post.” She also said that putting the medications aside, the nurse should have at least called 911 after she was asked to do so. Rudi said, “Policies have to change and common sense has got to be one of her priorities.”

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