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the nurse that was precepting me the other day told me that she agrees that the aides should not talk that way to the kids but you have to "pick your battles" and you don't want to "alienate staff." ...

i'm a relatively new nurse with 1 year experience in school nursing and just made the switch to a children's psychiatric hospital. basically, i feel like i am in way over my head. i am 1 week into...

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woohooo...she finally called back and said there was "an HR snafu." i start on may 24 :)

I did and she never called back. I don't want to start harassing her.

I agree that it was very strange but I basically chalked it up to the state being the state. I called last Tuesday and left a message for her. Do you think it's being too pushy and/or desperate to...

so i had an interview at a children's psychiatric hospital run by new york state. in short, the interview went great, i was offered the full-time position exactly a week later, and have never heard...

i have to deal with the same exact type things where i work. teachers bring kids in for bug bits, scabs, phantom stomach aches, and things they want "documented." when something really serious...

this exact thing has happened to me a couple of times. kids come in complaining of SA, i send them back to class, and then lo and behold they vomit all over the classroom and the teacher comes down...

go bag and emergency contact forms

flare thanks for the tuning fork idea..i will definitely use it!!! as to 100kids, what else could/should you have done? nothing.

i have this problem as well. i am coming to realize that teachers do not view me as a professional and think that i am a babysitter. i'm sick of it!!!

YES. i've been at my school for about two months and this has happened to me at least 5 times. students will come into the office and i have NO record of them even being enrolled. no physical, no...

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okay i think i have it figured out. thanks a lot!!!

ok so i just did more reading on the subject and i THINK that in new york a sports physical is for students participating in organized sports and that they need a physical every 12 months. a new...

i am a nurse in new york state. i was wondering if anyone can help me with how to handle expired physicals and having to exclude students from gym due to not having an up to date physical in their...

i am trying to stay out of it as much as possible. when someone tries to gossip to me i just tell them i don't want to get involved. i work in a special needs school but the truth is the adults...

lol!!!! i am doing great, thanks ! :redbeathe i am becoming more and more comfortable as the days go by. i have my diabetic student under control, figured out my lunch break (even though there was...

thank you SO much! and you are exactly right...she needs somebody that is going to approach her with compassion and caring and i am trying to be that person. at first she was causing me a lot of...

the pump is animas. the thing is with this student, she understands her diabetes completely, she knows how to use the pump correctly, and she understands the implications of hypo and hyperglycemia-...

thanks for all the info arnu. she has a scheduled snack time at 10:30 AM by her physician. she comes in and asks for a snack and i give her the snack. i thought that i was wrong to give her the...

thanks so much <3 <3 i am about to leave for school and i feel so much better. i love you guys!!!!

thanks for all the support!!! i was scared to even post about this situation because i feel pretty embarrassed about it. the student is scheduled for a snack at 10:30 AM and after doing some...

monday was the student's first day of school and i spoke to the mother serveral times on the phone because the student came into school without testing her bg in the morning before getting on the bus...