Health & Medical Newswire » Swine Flu Vaccine http://www.nurses-forum.com/blog Health, Medical and Nursing Job News Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:05:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 School Nurses Give Swine Flu Shot Without Consent Child Sent to Hospital http://www.nurses-forum.com/blog/210/school-nurses-give-swine-flu-shot-without-consent-child-sent-to-hospital/ http://www.nurses-forum.com/blog/210/school-nurses-give-swine-flu-shot-without-consent-child-sent-to-hospital/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:46:49 +0000 Nurses Forum Staff http://www.nurses-forum.com/blog/?p=210 A Brooklyn girl with epilepsy ended up in the hospital after school nurses mistakenly gave her and other students the swine flu vaccine without parental consent. Officials at Public School 335 in Crown Heights called an ambulance to take 6-year-old, Nikiyah Torres-Pierre to SUNY Downstate Medical Center when she fell ill following the flu shot.

Murray/News Nikiyah Torres, with her mom Naomi Troy, who received a flu shot without parents permission was taken to a hospital.

Murray/News Nikiyah Torres, with her mom Naomi Troy, falls ill after a flu shot.

“I was outraged,” Naomi Troy, 26, told the Daily News after her daughter, had a possible allergic reaction to the shot.

“My stomach was hurting, and I was itching,” Nikiyah said after she was released from the hospital.

The snafu and a similar mixup at a Staten Island school came in the first days of the city’s in-school H1N1 vaccination program. Read full story.

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