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

Specializes in Pediatrics, Hematology Oncology, School Nurse.

I'm in a K-5 school and too afraid to put anything other than plain ice in the baggies. I swear some of these little lovelies come to get ice just so they can eat it. <huge eye roll>

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If it works it works! Before I got my trusty ice maker (and after $200 of ice packs were stolen by the children) I used dollar store ice cube trays to make baggies of ice. These private school kids were not happy that I didn't have any "proper" ice packs.

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56 minutes ago, GetBackToClassRN said:

I'm in a K-5 school and too afraid to put anything other than plain ice in the baggies. I swear some of these little lovelies come to get ice just so they can eat it. <huge eye roll>

A little salt will cure that. ??

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3 hours ago, CanIcallmymom said:

A little salt will cure that. ??

You are a GEEENIUS!

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9 hours ago, JBudd said:

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.

Great idea, but too tempting for my oftentimes dramatic population.

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5 hours ago, BiscuitRN said:

If it works it works! Before I got my trusty ice maker (and after $200 of ice packs were stolen by the children) I used dollar store ice cube trays to make baggies of ice. These private school kids were not happy that I didn't have any "proper" ice packs.

All all of mine disappeared too!

I do love when they bring back the bags full of water and tell me that it melted. Funny thing about ice!

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9 minutes ago, Mango Juice said:

All all of mine disappeared too!

I do love when they bring back the bags full of water and tell me that it melted. Funny thing about ice!

YUP "my ice pack is leaking" holds up a 2-hour old, opened bag of water.

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6 hours ago, CanIcallmymom said:

A little salt will cure that. ??

Frozen veggies?

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20 hours ago, BiscuitRN said:

These private school kids were not happy that I didn't have any "proper" ice packs.

There is definitely a whole chapter to school nursing for private schools and the entitlement. I am constantly trying to educate them in the realities of life, as most of their parents have never had to navigate them.

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I place folded paper towels in snack sized baggies, then fill it with a bit of water - just enough to wet the paper towel, then freeze. When pulled from the freezer one can bend it into whatever shape needed, and it stays cold "just long enough." Also, it takes away the temptation of drinking the water - yuck, by then it is a wet paper towel stuck in a baggie.

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On 3/26/2019 at 10:44 AM, BluebellRN said:

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.

I had a parent call me to ask why there was a ziplock bag of water in the child's backpack.
Uhhh - because your kid is too dumb to just throw it away?? ?

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I was doing frozen sponges in a zip-lock, great for the little ones because it doesn't melt. But I have pre-K through 12 in ONE building so they kept getting taken and not returned. So when I ran out, I didn't put forth the effort anymore... they now have to go get their ice from the cafeteria. It seemed to have cut back on the popularity of the icepack - a tiny amount, but some none-the-less ?

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