ATTLEBORO - School officials fired a male nurse who inadvertently administered an insulin injection instead of a flu shot to a Hyman Fine Elementary School teacher last week.

Superintendent Pia Durkin said the nurse, who had been placed on paid leave following the Tuesday incident, "no longer works for the Attleboro schools" in answer to a request for an update on the case by school committee member Robert Hill. Durkin later clarified her remarks in response to a request, confirming that the nurse had been dismissed following an investigation.

The special needs teacher was injected with a dose of insulin intended for a diabetic pupil instead of a flu immunization routinely offered to teachers. The error was quickly discovered and the teacher taken to Sturdy Memorial Hospital where she was treated and placed under observation.

The teacher, who was not identified, recovered and is doing well, Durkin said.

Following the mistaken shot, school officials conducted an investigation into the incident. The probe was completed Friday by Personnel Director Judith Ferrari, Durkin said. A substitute nurse has been placed in charge of the school's health care and a permanent position has been posted. Durkin declined to modify her published account of the incident after Hill said some details attributed to the superintendent in a Sun Chronicle story last week were "innaccurate." The superintendent said the information she released to the news media was based on information related to her by people in the schools.

School board member Suzanne Machowski, who discussed the incident with the superintendent shortly after it occurred, said the information Durkin gave her was essentially identical to the newspaper's coverage.

Hill, whose wife also teaches at the school where the teacher was injected, declined to go into detail about what he believed were discrepancies in the information given out by the schools.