Specialties School
Updated: Feb 4, 2020 Published Dec 10, 2019
What do you guys do if the teacher reportedly sees a louse, or the student brings one in taped to their pass, but after doing a head check, you don't see any live lice or nits?
SaltineQueen
913 Posts
Nothing
kidzcare
3,393 Posts
3 minutes ago, MrNurse(x2) said:Really Kidz? I think the true hallmark of school nurse is no itch when discussing lice.
Really Kidz? I think the true hallmark of school nurse is no itch when discussing lice.
I don't think I'll ever be not itchy when lice is mentioned!
OyWithThePoodles, RN
1,338 Posts
I had this same thing happen. Teacher and IA said the louse was crawling down the students face, they stuck it to a piece of tape and brought it to me. Not a single nit or louse in the kids hair. I even checked the kids that sit around her because it was bugging (pun intended) the heck out me. The rogue louse had us all baffled that day.
bsyrn, ASN, RN
810 Posts
On 12/11/2019 at 12:04 PM, kidzcare said:I don't think I'll ever be not itchy when lice is mentioned!
Me either.....
BeckyESRN
1,263 Posts
1 hour ago, kidzcare said:I don't think I'll ever be not itchy when lice is mentioned!
When I was in HS, our bio lab had a poster with a enlarged pictures of lice. It skeeved me out to no end. During a test I just couldn't take it anymore, I stood on my chair, turned it around, and stuck back on the wall backwards... Now I pin little baggies of them to my bulletin board?
tining, BSN, RN
1,071 Posts
I have this plush lice in my office
Kids pick it up and ask what it is, when I say lice the poor guy literally flies across the room sometimes.
LikeTheDeadSea, MSN, RN
654 Posts
17 hours ago, tining said:I have this plush lice in my officeKids pick it up and ask what it is, when I say lice the poor guy literally flies across the room sometimes.
Where is this from? I want to get like 10 of them and make the bulletin board behind me feature them all. I think it'll be effective in keeping people out of my office ?
NurseMom1972, RN
31 Posts
30 minutes ago, LikeTheDeadSea said:Where is this from? I want to get like 10 of them and make the bulletin board behind me feature them all. I think it'll be effective in keeping people out of my office ?
Look up GiantMicrobes.com. They have a ton of cute plushies like this.
https://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/products/louse.html
https://collectiblewildlifegifts.com/stuffed-louse-7-inches-long-f1566-b102/
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Pediculus-Capitis-Louse-Science-Kit-Giant-Microbes-Louse-Pediculus-capitis-Educational-Plush-Toy-By-Giant-Microbes-Ship-from-US/449270279
Wuzzie
5,122 Posts
Not gonna lie I thought you meant you found it on another part of the body a little further south. ?
JenTheSchoolRN, BSN, RN
3,035 Posts
27 minutes ago, tining said:https://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/products/louse.htmlhttps://collectiblewildlifegifts.com/stuffed-louse-7-inches-long-f1566-b102/https://www.walmart.com/ip/Pediculus-Capitis-Louse-Science-Kit-Giant-Microbes-Louse-Pediculus-capitis-Educational-Plush-Toy-By-Giant-Microbes-Ship-from-US/449270279
Um, is it bad that I want to order all the STI ones for teaching my Sex Ed classes?