It's August!! Who is going back soon??

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I know it might be over a month for some, but its coming up soon for me!

I meet with the retiring nurse this coming wednesday to learn the ropes. Then staff starts inservice Aug. 17th and 18th. Our kids start school Aug. 19th!

My summer has really flown by!

I am buried under a mountain of paperwork for sports clearances...heeeeelllllppp meeeeeeee!!!

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Specializes in School Nursing, Public Health Nurse.

Technically started 2 weeks ago and orientation for the kiddies is this week. Working in a school-based health center which is slighly different from school nursing and it's interesting to say the least. Last week spent time going through the cabinets sorting out things and throwing out the expired items that have been overlooked (to say the least). School starts next week and I'm a bit nervous. This school is HUGE and I'm freaked out about getting around for emergencies. Here's to my new workout routine!

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I am buried under a mountain of paperwork for sports clearances...heeeeelllllppp meeeeeeee!!!

Actually, the secretaries at each school go through those. I'm only notified if they have a medical issue. Not many of those get a clearance for playing sports though.

I also have a health aide who was trained well by the very prior part-time (17 hours) nurse to get immunizations checked, inputed into the computer, updated in the file, sends notices out to parents (with my name on them), and does the state reporting of immunizations. And many other things as well.

I'm lucky in that respect.

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Actually, the secretaries at each school go through those. I'm only notified if they have a medical issue. Not many of those get a clearance for playing sports though.

I also have a health aide who was trained well by the very prior part-time (17 hours) nurse to get immunizations checked, inputed into the computer, updated in the file, sends notices out to parents (with my name on them), and does the state reporting of immunizations. And many other things as well.

I'm lucky in that respect.

Maybe I'll take your old job...

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Specializes in DD, PD/Agency Peds, School Sites.

Immunization drama, going through emergency cards for unreported health concerns, creating a health cautions lists, and digging my way through the hoard of useless materials in this office. This school site hasn't had a full time nurse in quite awhile, apparently. Anyone want a binder re: AIDS from 1989?

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Specializes in School Nursing, Public Health Nurse.

You guys are making me jealous. Apparently my new school district isn't great at checking immunizations and the previous nurse that has been orientating me just finished going through last year's freshman. I was told I would probably wouldn't even have time to get to this years freshman immunizations for a while. It's going to go over so well when I send home notices to parents that their child is missing x, y, and z immunizations and need them by this date or cannot return, even though their child has been in school over a year. Yep. This is going to get interesting.

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You guys are making me jealous. Apparently my new school district isn't great at checking immunizations and the previous nurse that has been orientating me just finished going through last year's freshman. I was told I would probably wouldn't even have time to get to this years freshman immunizations for a while. It's going to go over so well when I send home notices to parents that their child is missing x, y, and z immunizations and need them by this date or cannot return, even though their child has been in school over a year. Yep. This is going to get interesting.

I had 80 something out of 750 missing last year and my senior nurse worked OT with me to get it down to 5. You can do it!

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Specializes in DD, PD/Agency Peds, School Sites.

The worst is wishy-washy administrators who don't seem to understand the "excluded after 10 days" rule. Wonderful.

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Specializes in School Nursing, Public Health Nurse.
I had 80 something out of 750 missing last year and my senior nurse worked OT with me to get it down to 5. You can do it!

I have about 3500 kids and no OT :( I was also told I see about 30-50 kids a day in my position. I'm going to work this out!

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I have about 3500 kids and no OT :( I was also told I see about 30-50 kids a day in my position. I'm going to work this out!

I see 20-40, but only about 5-10 are legit sickies.

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Maybe I'll take your old job...

It isn't old yet . . . November 1 is just around the corner though! :)

Immunization drama, going through emergency cards for unreported health concerns, creating a health cautions lists, and digging my way through the hoard of useless materials in this office. This school site hasn't had a full time nurse in quite awhile, apparently. Anyone want a binder re: AIDS from 1989?

You need my health aide! She does all of that. And I'm still going through old stuff from prior nurses and this year I finally got the gumption to toss most of it away. As a new school nurse 5 years ago, I was afraid to throw anything away.

Our immunization reporting is top notch due to my health aide. I'm so grateful.

I don't really see sick kids - I do wish my job was more oriented towards that but I do mostly the canned individualized health care plans for asthma, seizure, diabetes, etc. Mostly of what I do is H&V screenings for IEP's. #1 priority for the teachers. We have one elementary school aged diabetic with a pump and I have to give insulin 2x a day. It became legal here to train non-medical personel who work for the district to administer insulin but we haven't moved to that yet. The change to insulin twice a day this year has made it hard for me to get back to one campus twice a day when the schools I cover are 25 miles away from each other.

I was on campus yesterday at one of the elementary schools for the diabetic student and had a young girl brought up to the office having trouble breathing. No history of asthma, no allergies, etc. 02 Sat 99%, HR 100, lungs were clear, she was talking, crying. Hyperventilation was my gut feeling and started her doing the "blow out the candle, suck on a straw" breathing. Got her calmed down and then she'd start up again. She ended up in the ER - same treatment for hyperventilation.

Funny thing was, I'd just done epi-pen training the day before to the principal and office staff who witnessed this. We had a talk afterwards and they were confused that I didn't give the epi-pen. I told them that if there isn't a medical person on sight then they have to go with the protocol. If I hadn't been there, they would have to give the epi-pen. They can't assess a kiddo and then make a medical decision. And epi has few negative side effect although I'll bet it would have hyped this little girl up.

11 campuses - there is no way a medical person could be on campus every day.

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Spidey's mom

How long did you do it? It makes make feel better that there is someone else out there that" doesn't love it" .

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