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A teacher at a school in my district was just at a conference in SF and went home "feeling ill". Never mind that the school nurse just checked him- he is afebrile, no respiratory symptoms, no sore throat- just "feels ill". He proceeded to tell anyone and everyone as he exited the building that he was at a conference in SF and going home sick with possible coronavirus. ? Seriously the man should be fired for stupidity. Mass pandemonium and panic now...

Specializes in Med/Surg, Emergency Room, School Nurse.
22 minutes ago, NutmeggeRN said:

Do you have TV, sometimes I go on and do that. Much easier! or maybe video and email everyone to show in their classroom?

Our students (high school) are making a hand washing video to put on our morning news. The Biology class is making it for extra credit. I am sure it will be much more enjoyable then listen to me talk.

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Specializes in School Nurse, past Med Surge.
17 hours ago, Flare said:

so my supe wants me to visit *all* the classes and talk to them about hygiene in a non-threatening way. First of all, I'm mad 'cause I was already to say to the classes "Wash your hands, or else!!"

Second: I am ONE person. I have a vaccine audit next week and 40+ visits per day. I have at least 32 classes to visit to see everyone - and that's with trying to catch the middle schoolers en masse. If I spend 5 minutes on average per class, the time commitment is over 2 1/2 hours. Not including the time it takes me to get there and the time to prep for this (making posters, etc)

Third: it IS going to create a bit of hysteria. Nearly every class I've been to so far has brought up corona virus. Nothing like feeding into the panic.

Finally: They seem to want me to make executive decisions on WHAT cleaner should be used. But when I started here many cleaners were nixed to use green cleaners. OY!!

Can you hit up a bunch of them at once in the lunchroom? That's what I'm considering doing.

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.

I think it'd be too noisy. It's like Bedlam in there

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We finally got cleaning supplies in each classroom as well as hand sanitizer. This should have been done every year just for flu season. I guess we can thank the media for something!

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District sent out an email saying that they are monitoring the situation and reinforcing the CDC and DOH recommendation for cleaning and hand hygiene. Stating that there are both sinks and hand sanitizer dispensers in every room and in several other locations throughout the building

Teachers: :reading email: psshh, yeah right! We don't even have hand sanitizer in our rooms

Me: Every room has a dispenser beside the door, is your's broken or missing?

Teachers: No, it's just empty and has been for weeks

Me: Oh, did you tell anyone? or leave a note on it for the overnight staff?

Teacher: Well no, but someone should know that they are empty and just refill them.

Me: I'm sure they'll refill them, if you ask someone or leave a note.

Teachers: Well this is just more work for me, I guess...

Why is this difficult?!? Apparently hand sanitizer, hand soap, and paper towels are just supposed to automatically refill. The fact that I had this conversation several times just makes me sad

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If you get the corona virus twice is it called Dos Equis?

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Specializes in ICU/community health/school nursing.
1 hour ago, BeckyESRN said:

District sent out an email saying that they are monitoring the situation and reinforcing the CDC and DOH recommendation for cleaning and hand hygiene. Stating that there are both sinks and hand sanitizer dispensers in every room and in several other locations throughout the building

Teachers: :reading email: psshh, yeah right! We don't even have hand sanitizer in our rooms

Me: Every room has a dispenser beside the door, is your's broken or missing?

Teachers: No, it's just empty and has been for weeks

Me: Oh, did you tell anyone? or leave a note on it for the overnight staff?

Teacher: Well no, but someone should know that they are empty and just refill them.

Me: I'm sure they'll refill them, if you ask someone or leave a note.

Teachers: Well this is just more work for me, I guess...

Why is this difficult?!? Apparently hand sanitizer, hand soap, and paper towels are just supposed to automatically refill. The fact that I had this conversation several times just makes me sad

Imma be here under my desk laughing. More work for YOU, sweet teacher??

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1 hour ago, ruby_jane said:

Imma be here under my desk laughing. More work for YOU, sweet teacher??

You know how hard it is to leave a note when you realize something's empty!

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3 hours ago, BeckyESRN said:

District sent out an email saying that they are monitoring the situation and reinforcing the CDC and DOH recommendation for cleaning and hand hygiene. Stating that there are both sinks and hand sanitizer dispensers in every room and in several other locations throughout the building

Teachers: :reading email: psshh, yeah right! We don't even have hand sanitizer in our rooms

Me: Every room has a dispenser beside the door, is your's broken or missing?

Teachers: No, it's just empty and has been for weeks

Me: Oh, did you tell anyone? or leave a note on it for the overnight staff?

Teacher: Well no, but someone should know that they are empty and just refill them.

Me: I'm sure they'll refill them, if you ask someone or leave a note.

Teachers: Well this is just more work for me, I guess...

Why is this difficult?!? Apparently hand sanitizer, hand soap, and paper towels are just supposed to automatically refill. The fact that I had this conversation several times just makes me sad

OMG THIS ^^^^^^^

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On 3/3/2020 at 1:02 PM, Wuzzie said:

The worst part of this is our patients are cancelling their treatments because they are too afraid to leave their houses. They are so scared they are willing to allow their cancer to progress rather than risk the very small chance they may be exposed to the virus that isn't even in our state!

Good lord. That is sad and awful...

As a a not-yet-“conceived” “Baby-Nurse” the only logic I see in your patients’ hypochondriasis, is that some treatments can cause low white cell counts. I could see people being freaked out for that because the “army” of immune system’s “fighting cells” have been taken out.

My mom had cancer and was undergoing chemotherapy when I was a teenager and she was hospitalized for some issue (and had extremely low white counts). Anyway, it was cold season here but no coronavirus back then.

Thank God, she was OK and taken care of, continues her treatments, and has been cancer free ever since - 20 years or something!

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On 3/4/2020 at 8:29 AM, tining said:

I think travel related will fall to the side once this ramps up with community exposure.

I am concerned about Spring break and feel like we need a questionnaire for travel during that time.

The airlines are cancelling flights. Maybe this will cut down on travel-related exposure.

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On 3/6/2020 at 4:42 PM, lifelearningrn said:

OMG THIS ^^^^^^^

Is it the job of the housekeepers or not? I think the teacher should just do it herself or leave a request for cleaners to refill but I do understand her consternation that no one has filled the darned things routinely.

Why is life so complicated?

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