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I am putting water in ziplocks and freezing them for ice packs.

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I used duct tape to remove lint from a kid's leggings AND to hold my BP machine together today ?

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Specializes in kids.

Those are wins!!!!

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Improvising is great! It's still an ice pack technically anyway..

Mine are just ziplocks with ice in 'em.

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On 3/22/2019 at 8:01 PM, Mango Juice said:

I am putting water in ziplocks and freezing them for ice packs.

At least you aren't just sending the kids outside to stick their body part in the snow banks!

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Specializes in School Nursing, Pediatrics.

I do that all the time!!! Its fine!

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.

we're school nurses - we improvise!

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Im a corrections nurse but I lurk in the school nurse forum, because there are SO_MANY_SIMILARITIES. This made me laugh. Because ice-pack-duty-making duty is real.

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Specializes in Psychiatry, Community, Nurse Manager, hospice.

One part rubbing alcohol and 2 parts water makes a really nice ice pack.

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Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.

When I was a camp nurse, I did that all the time. If you drape it over a soup can, it freezes in just the right shape to drape over an ankle or wrist.

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Specializes in School Nursing, Ambulatory Care, etc..
2 hours ago, FolksBtrippin said:

One part rubbing alcohol and 2 parts water makes a really nice ice pack.

Also, corn syrup doesn't freeze so it makes a great gel ice pack. :)

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Specializes in Occupational Health.

That's a high!! ?

I get a gallon sized bag of ice from the cafeteria every week or so, and dole out tiny bags with a couple cubes. Funny part is kids actually return the bags of water to me.

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