Local diabetes clinic

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Specializes in CPN.

Faxed me an order changing the insulin to carb ratio for one of my diabetic students. However, they failed to put a name, birthdate, or even MRN number on it. I asked them who it was for and if they could send me a copy with the patient identifiers on it. The person (nurse, I'm assuming) asked me if I had could call all the parents to see who had a recent ratio change and then call her back. Basically so she wouldn't have to look up these kids herself.

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Specializes in ICU/community health/school nursing.

Sweet baby Moses.

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Specializes in School Nursing.

Ohhhh man. Part of me would want to call the parents who go there just so I could throw the center under the bus. My families would call their angerly very quickly

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Specializes in Community and Public Health, Addictions Nursing.

Oh good grief. Sometimes I just can't even.

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To quote one of you, what the focalin?!

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.

Haha...good one!

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Specializes in School Nurse, past Med Surge.

So what was your response to that?

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Specializes in kids.

I would have faxed it back asking for the appropriate identifiers

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Specializes in School Nursing, Pediatrics.

WHAT?? Heck NO!!

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Specializes in CPN.
So what was your response to that?

I told her no. That two of the three are Spanish speaking only (I don't speak Spanish and am NOT going to inconvenience even more people to help translate) and I was pretty sure which kid it was. So, she looked up that one kid, and I was right.

Seriously though. They faxed me a useless piece of paper and then wanted me to do the leg work for them? This is a big clinic, so I get that they are busy, but I've been getting more and more bothered by them the more years I interact with them.

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Specializes in CPN.
Ohhhh man. Part of me would want to call the parents who go there just so I could throw the center under the bus. My families would call their angerly very quickly

Sometimes I wish I had these type of families. Most of my parents are pretty on top of stuff, but I'm in a Title I school, and the families tend not to have as much extra time to go around raising a ruckus (even if it's needed).

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Specializes in school nurse.

Tee-hee. You were being punked, right?

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