Speaking with our school nurse this week and I had an eye opening experience. Yes, we are a state that passed the law that requires schools to have an undesignated set of epi pens but we don't yet.
Our county will not pay for them out of county funds. Grrr. So what was the point? FWIW, I told her to use one of our sets (I have two kids with food allergies and two sets of pens at school), if she ever needed to do so.
She also needs a doctor to prescribe both a Jr and regular set. I am pretty sure I can get my allergist or ped to do so. But where do I go to get them paid for? Mylan, PTA, local allergy group?
Thoughts??
Well, find out who paid for your district's AED's.
That's how I'd approach it first. Then PTA, then local allergy support groups, then manufacturers.
In regards to prescribing, does the school nurse have a set of standing orders that she follows? At the camps that I've worked at, we've had a set of standing orders that are reviewed and approved by a local doc each year. That same doc writes prescriptions for all the meds that we keep on hand (epis, insulin, pink eye meds, prescription burn cream for the kitchen staff, etc.)
My district got 12 2 packs of epi/epi jr through their program for schools.
You law "requires" the school to have them? Our law "allows" our school to have them, but that's assuming you can get a doctor to prescribe them and get the school district to pay for them. I gave up when I couldn't find a doctor to do it. I was willing to make a donation for the first year (only for our school) and then have the PTO put it in their budget for the next year for our school since there is no way with our districts financial issues (thanks to the stat of IL) that they will pay for it.