Nurse refuses student inhaler during asthma attack

[AnneD]

158. It take a special type of person.....

to be a Nurse, especially in public schools. Florence Nightingale has nothing on us. You have to passionately believe what you are doing is the best, most safe thing you can do for those in your care-even if it flies in the face of what people think is acceptable. I am thinking of Florence insisting that the surgeons wash their hands before operating on the soldiers. The docs hated her for it but the soldiers in her unit had a greater chance of recovery. When she passed on, she had a military escort worthy of Queen Victoria at her funeral, so great was the respect the soldiers had for her.

There are some facts that make me call into question much of this condemnation. Again, this is probably the Nurse in me. Nurses are Nurses because they keep their wits about them in a crisis and don't give in to panic. I suspect we are the same way about lynch mobs too.