cdgoldilocks

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1. Day One and already dealing with...

   cdgoldilocks replied to KKEGS's topic in School

   FOR SHAME. You keep them in a Petrie dish as your "emotional support

2. ROLL CALL!!! School Nurses 2017/2018

   cdgoldilocks replied to Farawyn's topic in School

   I'm here! This is my 3rd year as a school nurse, 20th year of being an RN. Time flies. So, I started back August 14th. I work for a county office of education, so we have medically fragile kids, ED...

3. New School Nurse Diastat Training and so much more

   cdgoldilocks replied to Janeway29's topic in School

   Agreed! With Diastat you must assess, and a healthcare assessment is a NURSING function. Where I work, only the nurse administers

4. No Respect

   cdgoldilocks replied to Keepstanding's topic in School

   I am kind of snarky, but when the teachers try to tell me how to do my job, my rebuttal is that they can do MY job and I can go teach their class common core, as I have an app for that and it can't...

5. Poll: What age group?

   cdgoldilocks replied to villageRN's topic in School

   Medically fragile ages 3-22, also community/alt ed school kids, kids in juvenile detention, Emotionally disturbed kiddos, DHOH. A variety of

6. Nurse Family Partnership Home visitor RN

   cdgoldilocks replied to RamaMama's topic in Public, Community Health

   I worked for the Nurse Family Partnership program for 14 years. I helped introduce the program to our County, and it was "my baby". I liked the client centered "heart's desire" approach to Public...

7. Hand Sanitizer is a pesticide?

   cdgoldilocks replied to cdgoldilocks's topic in School

   I Had to watch the WHOLE video and read ALLLL the ed code to realize that hand sanitizer and all my wonderful germy wipes are governed by some other governmental agency. Yay! lol.... I spent 2 hours...

8. Hand Sanitizer is a pesticide?

   cdgoldilocks replied to cdgoldilocks's topic in School

   Required Training I so wish I was making this up. Honestly. Thankfully I have my emotional support Louse at my desk to comfort

9. Hand Sanitizer is a pesticide?

   cdgoldilocks posted a topic in School

   I got an e mail after attending the CSNO conference about Pesticides. I just started school nursing in October. In July of this year, the State of CA is doing a bunch of shenanigans because they think...

10. My Burnout Story

    cdgoldilocks replied to jk2185's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Been there. I feel for you. I think we are nurses are so traumatized we are now numb. I am in my 3rd nursing career change. I did 4 years in CV/Tele/Stepdown. Saw it all. I saw a lady's butt had...

11. New to school nursing

    cdgoldilocks replied to cdgoldilocks's topic in School

    Wow an Epistick. LOL. Oh, I love the keepsake picture. I took some too. LOLOL. http://i901.photobucket.com/albums/ac217/cdgoldilocks/IMG_0027_zpsj4ieut2c.jpg Sorry it is

12. Head Injury

    cdgoldilocks replied to frangipanni's topic in School

    Our policy is that any head injury that you would call home or send a note, etc would have an incident report filled out. Ours is called Confidental School something-or-other report. We inform our...

13. New to school nursing

    cdgoldilocks replied to cdgoldilocks's topic in School

    Thank you for the warm welcome. I am happy to see such an active group. I must say, there are some days I think I have finally found what I have wanted to do. Then there are other days when I feel...

14. New to school nursing

    cdgoldilocks posted a topic in School

    Just wanted to introduce myself. I have been a nurse for 18 years. I have worked hospital nursing for 4 years, then public health for 14 years before deciding to take a job for my county office of...

15. Health department mass exodus- am I being paranoid?

    cdgoldilocks replied to phn529's topic in Public, Community Health

    I just left Public Health after 14 years. I was tired of 8 years of no raises, administration thinking law enforcement, who goes to the SAME homes, thinking safety was an issue for THEM but not us,...