http://www.diabetes.org/diabetesnewsarticle.jsp?storyId=18881560&filename=20081115/knightridder2008111500001330SACaliforniajudgerulesonlynursescangiveinsulintokids1115EDIT.xml
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http://tinyurl.com/5ee7r8
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Nov. 15--A Sacramento Superior Court ruling Friday marks a major ****ft
in the treatment of nearly 14,000 California schoolchildren with
diabetes.
Judge Lloyd Connelly sided with the California School Nurses
Organization, the American Nurses Association, the California Nurses
Association and other nursing groups in their challenge to a 2007 rule
that enabled trained school staff -- not just school nurses -- to
administer insulin shots to diabetic kids.
"This is a big setback," said Jim Stone, who has a 12-year-old
diabetic son and has fought, with other parents, to expand the number
of people who can administer insulin to diabetic children in public
schools.
There are 2,800 nurses in the 9,800 public schools across the state.
In a class-action lawsuit filed in 2005, parents had argued that with
so few school nurses left in California, they were having to keep
their diabetic children out of school or leave jobs to administer
insulin shots themselves.
The California Department of Education settled with parents in 2007
and sent an advisory to districts throughout the state urging them to
allow trained, unlicensed school staff to give the shots if a nurse or
parent wasn't available.
Friday, Connelly ruled that the advisory is in conflict with state law
that says only licensed nurses can administer injections.
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