Let me apologize in advance for the long post, but I feel the whole story is necessary. I am new to school nursing started in February for a 3-4 grade school. I am dealing with an angry parent situation and I am not sure what, if anything, that I di...
lilbiskit78 replied to Keepstanding's topic in School
Purple Scrubs thank you so much for all the advice. I am trying to set standards for what needs to come to the nurse and what doesn't but there are so many gray areas.....like headaches. Alot of kiddos c/o headache or stomach ache they know these are...
lilbiskit78 replied to Keepstanding's topic in School
Hi everyone! I am new to school nursing (only a month now) and my clinic visits are super high and I need some advice as to how to lower them. I am running ragged and can't get anything done except see kiddos. We have 650 students in my school (3rd a...
At my hospital, they usually write "continue home meds" and then if they are starting any new home meds the doc will leave a script for the new med on the chart. Sometimes they don't write anything.......LOL.......they write, "D/C home" and nothing ...
lilbiskit78 replied to grinnurse's topic in New Nurse
Grin, Isn't it weird that Aggie and I work at the same place? I thought it was crazy, however, they are a big hospital in our area, so I guess it's not too strange. I never did figure out who Aggienurse was.........I didn't want to stand up and yel...
lilbiskit78 replied to grinnurse's topic in New Nurse
Hey, aggienurse! I kind of figured this out last week when I saw where you live; we work at the same place! You must not be doing a critical care area.....I am, so that is why my orientation is a few weeks longer than the regular orientation. The ...
lilbiskit78 replied to grinnurse's topic in New Nurse
My first day was all classroom and still is! (M-F, 8-5)! I think starting next week we will have some time on the floor and some in the classroom.....but I have to do classroom stuff until the 1st or 2nd week in August (YIKES!! Thought I was done w...
lilbiskit78 replied to grinnurse's topic in New Nurse
Grin, Jefferson is in Marion County.....it's about 15 minutes from here and a fun place to go for looking at older stuff. They have really beautiful B&Bs everywhere, that would be a nice thing to do for your mom. They have a lot of historic homes...
lilbiskit78 replied to grinnurse's topic in New Nurse
Hey, Grin! You don't live too far, do you? I've never been to First Monday, but I've heard it's awesome, although somewhat of a madhouse!! Jefferson is a really neat town too, my husband and I spent our wedding night in one of the haunted hotels t...
lilbiskit78 replied to grinnurse's topic in New Nurse
Also start Monday the 13th for orientation, critical care, day shift. Went and bought scrubs today.....getting really nervous! Aggienurse, are you working at GSMC? I live in Marshall.......you will know where that is!!! Lil
I live in TX and they participate in the quick results; my results were not posted until exactly 48 hours after my test time. I did schedule my test on a Monday so I wouldn't run into weekends, so I do not know if they post results over a weekend or ...