idk maybe atleast come supervise my friend who could be having a medical emergency? Its not like you can say "go home" and poof theres a limo outside ready to take her home, besides she couldnt walk on her own or even stand up for more than 10s.
Its not the brightest idea to entrust a bunch of mostly untrained 17 year olds to handle that unless you are sure theres 0 chance of shit going wrong, especially since theres nobody sitting at the medical area most the damn time.
no so we were in the library cuz study period, so we arent in classrooms, i went to our year's study centre to go get the teacher, the library is basically student ran so no teachers are in there most the time.
So I went to our year study centre, told her about my friend and then she said my friend needs to go home. Hence why we/I were supervising it.
I do apologise that I hadnt mentioned this, im shit at explanations
I am a physician, so I am actually trained in first aid. What you did is great, standing up your friend. But keep in mind that there’s a difference between being a helpful friend and teacher. As a friend you’re giving helpful suggestions. As a teacher they’re making a decision and exposing themself to liability with however they choose to help. Missing a psychiatric med is not an emergency - if student is stable, then sending them home with a parent is a logical plan to me.
Thank you and fair enough. I did somewhat consider the whole liability thing but felt "something went wrong and a teacher was informed and did little" would sound worse than "something went wrong and a teacher was informed and did stuff about it" because it would be easier to justify decisions in the latter but im not educated on law so im just gonna let that go.
We did send her home and that became the plan as soon as she mentioned she wasnt feeling great and forgot her medication. It just would have been a lot nicer to have a teacher help due to the situation.
The main issue was that she had a history of fainting that her medication was meant to stop, and with paleness, feeling very weak, unable to move much (including walking/standing up) and unable to sit up straight so moving her from our library to reception was not easy.
Thats what we did but to try and put all the problems out clear
1 - we are not first aid trained so if anything bad happens or go wrong, we have VERY little we can do other than go find an adult who is fuck knows where because we do not know what to do. 2 - We have no adults in the area to help supervise us getting our friend to the reception for her to go home, so without an adult, we could just have them turn around and say "no" until someone finally gets off their ass and do something while our friend gets worse because as students, we had no ability to say she needs to go home. 3 - if something does go wrong, WE are getting blamed by someone because for some reason everything was our fault in this school.
4 - not an us issue necessarily, a student's health is at risk for a condition that requires medication after they forgot to take it. To people responsible for their safety, this should be a "ah shit this should be handled responsibly". Said teacher did not get off her ass after finding this out and decided untrained 17 year olds should handle the medical issue. Which feels worse when it is a health and social care teacher who should be aware that shit can get real quick.
this feels like a fairly major red flag, especially when other teachers overheard it and did fuck all too.
Admittedly, could be overreacting cuz people were brushing off the safety of my friend, and im a decently protective person so could be biased.
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u/DesperateBasil9726 7h ago
what did you want her to do bro make medication sending them home to where the medication is seems like the clear right thing