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Due to a heavy schedule this semester, I was only able to attend two of the three workshops offered after school, but the two I was able to attend were very helpful. The first was a training session held by the school nurse on how to administer a glucagon shot and the other was with the resource officer on drug recognition. Both of the workshops were very helpful, but I was unfortunately unable to attend one on tying SOLs to non-SOL testing classes.
I felt obliged to attend the glucagon training session with the nurse because I have two students with Type I Diabetes and feel my classroom is too far from the nurse's office to be able to wait for her to arrive. The nurse demonstrated how to mix the shot and how and where to inject it as well as other things to do with a student with low blood sugar and how to identify when they are high or low. By the end we were mixing practice shots and injecting them into oranges and I can safely say I know how to use a glucagon shot now. The second workshop I was able to attend was interesting to me because I had heard about the problems our school was having with prescription medication abuse and was interested in hearing what we could do about it. The session mainly covered how to recognize the drugs themselves and what we need to do during our hall duty to prevent students from trading anything illegal in the halls or bathrooms. I found it interesting that nearly all the drug cases in the schools involved prescription pills while there were almost no alcohol cases these days and other drugs have gone down in popularity. The resource officer also showed us homemade weaponry that had been confiscated from some students. Due to this workshop, I have changed my bathroom policy so that each student only gets three visits every six weeks. |