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Chapstick dispenser needed!

If only there was a Chapstick dispenser and bandaids outside the office it would be so much easier for me! In only the first wk I couldn't count how many Chapsticks I handed out or bandaids over paper cuts?! Guessing many of the teachers didn't want to say no during the first wk but I hate that they are missing instruction times for something so trivial! Don't want to have to be the mean nurse but it's my job to keep them healthy and in class to learn! Hoping next wk goes smoother for us all, or I might have a meltdown! Sorry had to vent to prepare for Monday!

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    How on earth can you afford Chapstick!!! It's a tube of Vaseline and q-tips in my world!

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    Yes at schooldistrictnurse. Vaseline with q tips is my world also. Stephaniepresher, can you give out baggies with bandaids to the teachers or teachers aides. The children can report to you if there is something major

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    Vaseline and Qtips here too.

    I can't believe they shell out for chapstick!

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    Petroleum jelly and ear swabs for us too (we buy generic). ;)

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    My bad it is not "Chapstick", we have Blistex samples and Qtips. But they are killing me over cracked lips! I'm working on making baggies but I've been so busy with kids in and out, and putting in immunizations I have not had the time to get them done. This wk hasn't been so bad as the first wk where mostly it was a lot of goofing off. And I also sent a "nice" email around to everyone stating the office is closed at such time so I can take my break 230, no kid needs to come to my office 45 mins before school lets out unless it is squirting red or turning blue....Not for chapped lips or a paper cut!

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    I try and send a note home with the child and let the parents know they were in my clinic for chapped lips and to send a tube of chap stick with their child. It is not in our nursing budget to hand out bags of band aids to teachers. We tell them they have to buy them on their own classroom budget.

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