School nursing compromise

We had our final meeting with the school district this week in order to prepare for the upcoming IEP meeting which will determine what services Hannah will get when the school district takes over.

After talking to one of the heads of the nursing staff there, they are now saying they will provide a nurse in the classroom.   However, if there is a child that needs a G-tube feeding or something, they would bring the child into Hannah’s room and the nurse would do it there.

To us, this is a good compromise that we can work with for now.  There are some factors we want to learn more about such as how many kids in the class will this nurse be monitoring and how many outside kids will need to come in for the nurse’s assistance.   If the number is low on both counts, this is definitely doable.   However, if there are a dozen kids who all need monitoring by the nurse, well, that is another story.

Her doctors still are going to put in writing a one-on-one nursing requirement so we will still work on getting that kind of coverage.

On a side note, one of Hannah’s nurses now (whom she just adores) used to work for an agency that did school nursing in the classroom for kids like Hannah in our school distrct.  She wants to find out what agency it is that is doing it so she can be put on Hannah’s case and go to school with Hannah at least a couple of days a week!   Of course it is a long shot, but it is definitely worth a shot since she has already done it before in the past.

Anyone, nothing is permanent until we get to the IEP meeting on September 1st and put everything into writing on paper.   Daddy and I still have to feel 100% comfortable with whatever arrangement we can agree upon in order to let her go to school.  But at least things are going in the right direction now.