Monday morning madness

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Just what every school nurse wants on a Monday morning, the dreaded call from a parent that they found head lice on their daughter after a sleepover with friends this weekend. They are treating it and let everyone at the sleepover know...

Let the mass hysteria begin in 3...2...1

Who will be worse, the parents or the teachers? We shall see.

Superintendent wants a letter to go home to all parents. Anyone have a good one that's not over the top in scare and horror but educates and asks parents to check their kids regularly? Mine is old and references a no nit policy that I have not seen in writing in our policies in years and indicating I have head checked all kids in the class and will recheck them all next week, so basically 100 years old, long before I was here! I can make up a new one but figured I'd check here first.

I have a feeling it's going to be a long week with lots of phone calls!!!

I wouldn't recommend sending this one home... but it makes for a good laugh!

The letter I would WANT to send home about LICE if I were the school principal | Moms Who Drink And Swear

ETA- NSFW. Read on your work computer at your own risk.

OMG! This just made my day! Thank you!

Crazy...I mean, I hate lice as well, as a parent AND as a nurse...

What state are you in? Where I am, which in an elementary school k-6 grade, we do NOT send letters out unless we have SEVERAL cases. We do not even do class checks unless we've had several students confirmed. This is my first year doing school nursing, but I've already had a few pesky cases, both of which I referred to a lice clinic. We also do not exclude for nits.

I agree that a letter home would cause more hysteria!

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