AutumnDraidean

AutumnDraidean

School health, Maternal-Newborn

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About AutumnDraidean

AutumnDraidean has 20 years experience and specializes in School health, Maternal-Newborn.


RN 1997, Float pool 2 years, Maternal Newborn 13 years, concurrent with this, district sub for 4 years. Head Start 2.5 years, current gig 1.5 years and counting.

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  1. Should Have Called 911

    So I’m a sub, one of the schools I go to is a SPED environment. I was called to the gym, a kid had run, headlong into an electric box on the wall, when I got there he was still experiencing an altered LOC so when the principal asked if I wanted 911 c...
  2. Vision/Hearing exams on preschool age children

    I know of a nurse who has both an OAE and an audiometer, she uses the audiometer first and only resorts to the OAE when the audiometer isn’t working out. When I worked at a head start I used an OAE, it had one big flaw, as far as I was conc...
  3. C'Mon Now!

    As a sub I’m not making those decisions at this school. The nurse I’m subbing for is on maternity leave, we can ask her questions as well as the two other nurses the serve the elementary schools. They also have a designated staff member that is track...
  4. C'Mon Now!

    Why do they send them to school if they’re feeling crappy from the vaccine? At a HS, 16 and up getting vaxed, then going to school feeling like crud, I have to send them home if they have any one of a distressingly large list of symptoms. They have t...
  5. What is your opinion on "calling in sick" when not really sick?

    I’m going to frame this in the context that I’ve always lived in small communities. When I was in college I worked for a grocery store so not high stakes, someone called in on a Friday night in order to go to the demolition derby at the county fair. ...
  6. We would need medicare for all to make this work. As well as a backup system of some kind. It would be fantastic though!
  7. Male Adult ICU Nurse Transition to NICU

    I think you'll love it. plus you will be a great role model for dads scared to handle their babies and dads who need to understand the importance of breastfeeding when it sometimes looks like a great big hassle.
  8. CNM/WHNP...why or why not?

    I would suggest a slightly different dual certification, Peds! imagine being able to care for moms and babies together, what that could do for breastfeeding! Especially when it's not going so well. I remember so many times when that would have helped...
  9. Practicing in Canada

    Decide which provinces you are interested in living in. Some are more protectionist than others, Ontario has a terrible reputation with incoming RNs (Canadian student who attended Northeastern in Boston and was licenced in Massachusetts and had criti...
  10. Got The Vaccine! Share Your Experience

    I received my second Moderna dose about 0945 Friday morning. Started feeling cruddy around 6pm and went downhill from there. Fever and a frontal lobe headache. I was trying to avoid taking advil or tylenol. I had a fussy belly all night, no actual na...
  11. Got The Vaccine! Share Your Experience

    My daughter had her second Moderna yesterday and it's kicked her butt. nasty headache, random body aches Lots of chills but no actual fever. I'll be getting mine Friday and I'm not looking forward to my weekend. We're opting not to treat fever. Let...
  12. Ethical Dilemmas of Correctional Nursing

    I've only had the tiniest brush with corrections nursing, but honestly OP you sound like someone ripe to be gamed. See the abuse in the prison system isn't coming from the men an women who work directly with the inmates, its coming from above. it's t...
  13. C'Mon Now!

    I had this happen, pre-covid. HS Student complaining of feeling poorly, no objective symptoms, shared that she was in danger of repeating a grade due to absences, I gave her a pep talk about responsibility and what an employer would expect of her, an...
  14. Parents STILL Sending Sick Kids to School

    The people who need to show compassion to the parents are their employers! Firing a parent for "missing too much" during this pandemic has got to be one of the cruelest and heartless things going on.
  15. Frustrated about covid symptoms. Does everyone need to go home?

    One of the districts I sub for, plus one other school wants students sent home for even one symptom. Not fun. Other districts I can use some judgement. Thankfully there hasn't been that many sub days. Come April that will change, one of the nur...