Originally Posted by nannyde:
Sure they are easy if nothing goes wrong. It's the day something goes wrong when it's not so easy after all.
Medication given by inhalation are VERY serious medications. The provider needs to understand the medication, the importance of properly adminstering them as ordered, the knowledge of when to administer the medication if there is a window of time and an "as needed" decision, AND the very serious side effects of each medication.
I don't feel comfortable doing them in my setting. If a provider feels they are easy peasy and doesn't have a lick of problems with them then the kids who need them need to go to that provider. That's not me 
I don't have the luxury of not knowing the seriousness of these medications.
I am fine with doing them for MY child who sometimes requires them . . for a daycare child I probably would not. In my thought if the child requires thAt much attention I really don't get paid enough to be dealing with it. I wouldn't. . . I was just trying to say that they were not difficult
