School nurses serve a vital role in schools as they serve as the primary caregivers or healthcare providers should an injury or illness occur in a school setting. They also act as first responders in the event there is an emergency at the school and ensure students are aware of the health and wellness promoting tips that can help them prevent these injuries or illness in the first place. Schools are complex, and nurses must have the acumen and temperament to manage a wide range of responsibilities under pressure and with limited resources.

A school’s setting means that injuries can happen anywhere and at any time, so the school halls, the classes, swimming pool, sports fields must all be covered by the nurse who must be ready at a moment’s notice to provide critical health services in order to prevent an injury from turning into much worse, or to mitigate a health emergency so that the student is stable prior to being taken to the ER.

It is important to note that your children are owed a duty of care by the school and its staff and must be reasonably kept safe from any injurious hazards or anything that may expose them to chronic illness such as toxic fumes or unsafe water and so on. If school management and staff act in a negligent manner leading to your child sustaining injuries, this can be considered breach of duty of care which can attract a legal claim meant to recover damages for your child’s injuries or subsequent poor health.

While these claims sound easy to manage, oftentimes, schools may use tactics to either delay a claim’s payout or work with the insurance company to deny the claim due to a technicality. It is because of these and other reasons we’ll take a look at in this article that it is vital that you have timely legal assistance so you can benefit from the advanced legal strategies used to win these types of cases, something we would be honored to provide you with in this timely article – read on to find out how.

Experienced Lawyers for School Injury Claims

Are you looking for the best school injuries injury lawyer? Please call us NOW at (314) 481-63338 to learn more about your legal options for justice and compensation. The experienced child injury attorneys at McCready Law have collectively garnered over 90 YEARS of stellar legal experience where we’ve helped tens of thousands of injured Americans from all walks of life recover compensation after getting injured due to the negligent actions of other individuals or large corporations. Over the years, we’ve been able to recover in excess of $260 million for our clients, with many of these being million dollar settlements or judgments. We attend to every claim in a personalized manner, and our attorneys are always accessible to answer your questions during the course of the claim.

Cases are also handled by real and experienced attorneys, and not paralegals, which is something that often occurs in large firms. We aren’t afraid to litigate claims if the client has sustained substantial, life-altering injuries, as this is often the only way the client can recover a sizable compensation; by contrast, most law firms simply engage the insurance company in settlement negotiations which often end in a less than satisfactory payout to the injured party.

In addition to having nationwide reach thanks to our trusted network of referral attorneys and law firms, we also run a bilingual firm (hablamos Español), and we take on all cases on contingency fee basis, which simply means that there are ZERO UPFRONT FEES for the duration of the processing of the claim, as we only levy our fees at the end of the suit, and only if we’ve recovered compensation on your behalf. If your child was injured at school, and you believe nurse or school staff negligence played a major role in their injuries, please give us a call NOW at (314) 481-63338 to learn more about your legal options for justice and compensation – our intake team is standing by.

School Nurse Negligence and Your Legal Options

Here are some of the ways in which inadequate nurse care may worsen your child’s injuries or illness:

1. Failure to assess and monitor – Nurses are requiring to monitor students’ health continually, especially in students that have a history of chronic illness or those prone to injury such as students living with cerebral palsy. Failure to perform these assessments on a regular basis may lead to missed signs of deterioration and worsening of injuries, escalating them and potentially leading to permanent complications.
2. Inadequate documentation – accurate documentation may help in managing conditions or even injuries as they occur as the information contained in the files may help other healthcare providers mete out timely and accurate care to the injured or ill child. Without this documentation, care may be delayed leading to worsening of the child’s condition
3. Improper medication administration – school nurses must know how to administer medication in the proper manner to avoid errors. Sick or injured students must receive the correct medication dosage at the right time in order to prevent serious health complications such as overdose or incorrect medication administration, exposing the school and management to lawsuits on account of negligence.
4. Ignoring student concerns – school nurses must listen to students and take their concerns seriously in order to provide effective care. If a student comes to them complaining of a persistent pain in their stomach or unrelenting headache, they should not dismiss it as something minor and instead ensure they are provided with intermediary care before being sent to a hospital for a comprehensive medical assessment.

Best School Child Injury Attorneys – Call Us Today!

School nurses act as the first point of contact between you and your child and Bonafide healthcare providers such as ER doctors. To this end, they must act responsibly to ensure that children get the care they deserve to avert any medical disasters. If you believe that your child’s school nurse acted in a negligent manner, leading to your child suffering health complications, please give us a call NOW at (314) 481-63338 to learn more about your legal options for justice and compensation. Remember, the call is 100% FREE, and there is no legal obligation. Thanks for choosing us, and we look forward to helping you.