How many diabetics do you have?

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I feel like I have a lot of Diabetic students. I have 4 Type 1 DM and 3 Type 2 DM... All of these require insulin. I have 2 additional Type 2 who take oral medications at home...

Specializes in Home Health,Dialysis, MDS, School Nurse.

I have 2 T1's in our school of 650 kids. They are both very responsible and parents are great to work with. I have it pretty easy in that arena.

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I have 6 with one of them newly diagnosed. They are a lot of work some days, and easy other days...just like their diabetes ? I am in a middle school with ~850 kids

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On 4/12/2019 at 2:26 PM, CanIcallmymom said:

HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN?!

Haha we're super small! Only about 700 district wide. I had 1 T1 a couple of years ago, but he decided to switch schools. We just haven't had any others enroll! ?‍♀️?‍♀️?‍♀️

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Specializes in School nurse.

I have 5 T1D in a school of 1250

I do have some Type 2 as well but they don't do anything here at school.

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Specializes in School Nursing.

1 T1D, newly diagnosed 4 year old.

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Our district is Birth-12th grade with about 470 kids. For Typle 1 DM I have 1 PK, 2 elementary, 1 JR high, 1 HS. The HS kid is completely independent. I do at least 90% of the care on the other 4 kids spread between 3 buildings. 3 have pumps with 1 having a dexcom, the other one is strictly a humalog pen. I am BUSY with just these 4 kids. My PK kid is definitely the most challenging for many reasons. I am not sure what my job would look like without all of them though!

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High School 8 to 12, 4 T1D

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On 4/12/2019 at 2:25 PM, KeeperOfTheIceRN said:

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On 4/12/2019 at 2:26 PM, CanIcallmymom said:

HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN?!

My first year as a school nurse, I had 5 T1. They all moved on to the next school and the next 3 years I had none! (school was about 900 students, grades 5 and 6).

At the preschool I work at now, we seldom have diabetics. One since I've been here.

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Specializes in NICU, School Nursing.

2 T1 out of almost 900. One 6 yo with compliant and super nice parents and one independent 14 yo.

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18 minutes ago, kidzcare said:

My first year as a school nurse, I had 5 T1. They all moved on to the next school and the next 3 years I had none! (school was about 900 students, grades 5 and 6).

At the preschool I work at now, we seldom have diabetics. One since I've been here.

That's so strange! I wonder if it will phase through like that here. I have appx 1000 9th-12th. All of my insulin dependent diabetics are in the same grade except 1!

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Specializes in kids.

3 and they all graduate this year!!

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Specializes in School Nurse, past Med Surge.

Zip, zilch, zero! But I have a small school, less than 300.

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