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Hello everyone, I am looking for some feedback. I had a 3rd grader come into my office mid morning the other day. She said that she felt like she may throw up. She did not have a fever, had eaten breakfast earlier in the morning, and she said she had...

I really appreciate all your feeback! Like you all said, I think it was just too early when I saw her so she only had mild symptoms. I just wanted to make sure there was nothing else I could have done. I actually did have her hop up and down a few ti...

I am a relatively new school nurse. The other day I got a phone call from one of my elementary schools (while I was at one of the my other schools) that a student was short of breath and struggling to breathe. They stated that she had been running in...

No, they didn't do much other than put O2 on her. They listened to her lungs when they first got there and said that her lung sounds were clear- which they most definitely were not. They took her BP, and I already had my pulse ox on her finger. That ...

Thank you all. I am glad I called 911. In the future if something like this happens again and I am far away, I will tell them to call 911. The way the secretary described her condition to me, I was not sure how serious it was. Plus, this school calls...

Thank you all! I definitely wish we had portable O2 tanks lol. Do you all think I should have considered giving her epi (and call 911 of course)? I just want to know better for next time.

I did at least tell the secretary that if she seems to be getting worse before I got there, not to hesitate to call 911, but I wasn't sure if I should have went ahead and told her to call 911 or not. The bad thing is is that I have no cell service be...

After I graduated a few years back I worked and floated between a cardiac floor, medsurg, and 2 psych units for a about a year and then worked the psych unit for a couple years before starting school nursing a year ago. I think a psych nurse can abso...

I am 24 years old. I worked in the hospital setting for a little over 2 years before starting school nursing. Initially I was in a float pool working between a cardiac stepdown, med surg, geriatric psych, and adult psych floors. Initially I was exact...

So I had my first real emergency scare in the school nurse setting. A fifth grade student walked into my office with a very small paper cut (and minimal blood) requesting a band aid. I finished putting a band aid on her and she then said she did not ...

At my busiest and biggest elementary school (around 230), I see around 20-35 (for a full day that is, on my half days I see around 15). Some days are easier than others. Some days it is mainly very minor reasons (bandaid for a cut, ice pack for an im...

I myself have battled depression and generalized anxiety since I was a teenager. I wrote it off during my teenage years as hormones. I went to college and started nursing school. I was a nervous wreck for clinicals. I was so terrified of hurting some...

I too am younger, 24. I get it all of the time from staff. Occasionally from parents. I don't mind it though. In fact, I can of like it. For some reason it puts me at ease lol. Growing up, when I would go to the dr. or dentist and I was greeted like ...

I am the one who started the original thread regarding my first emergency scare and it was similar to this! I had a girl come in for a super small paper cut with just a scant amount of blood. I put a band aid on it and she said she didn't feel good. ...

Let me give you a quick background. My county only ever employed 1 school nurse at a time. They finally added a second school nurse (me!) a few months ago. There is a diabetic student in 4th grade. She gets insulin around lunch time. THere is no set ...

THankyou!!

Thank You to everyone who was encouraging and kindly gave advice to my original question. And a special thanks to the ones who even stuck up for me!

Some Clarifications: 1. There is a doctors order for the insulin. There is a sliding scale ordered. However, there is a clause in the order that says the parents and school nurse may adjust it if needed. For example, I may adjust it based upon what s...

Sigh, see above.... There IS a doctor's order... I've clarified this a couple of times. If I knew how to edit the original post, I would. I'm a new user on here. I have called the mother, but this doesn't seem to scare her... probably because she's ...

lol too funny! I understand that. I worked on a psych geriatric unit before I started this job, and some of those sweet, geriatric patients sure were a handful sometimes! I loved it though.

First, like I clarified earlier.... There is a dr.'s order on file for the insulin. There is a sliding scale ordered. HOWEVER, there is a clause in the order stating that the insulin may be adjusted based upon the parents' and school nurses' discreti...

I myself have wondered if a pump for her would be more beneficial for her. She can be fairly unpredictable at times. She actually did go into DKA over the summer. She had gotten a bad case of mono which caused her spleen to enlarge etc. and she went ...

Let me rephrase. There is a sliding scale, but there is a clause that also says up to parental and nurse discretion as well (I can't remember the exact wording). If we followed the sliding scale to a T, she would not be controlled at ALL. That is why...

I know the topic of head lice has been discussed over and over and over. The other school nurse and I are working on revising the head lice policy. We are changing it to basically allow kids to stay in school with head lice. We are putting a clause i...

Hello, I have been working as a school nurse for a few months now. Before that though I worked on a pysch unit and loved it. Mental health is something I am passionate about. I enjoy being a school nurse, but miss the mental health sort of things whi...