SavyNurse ADN, EMT-B

Why did you pick up the dead bird and proceed to chase your classmates with it? (Middle school)

Our district has one nurse at every school (lpn or RN). Some school may have a .5 nurse or a second nurse based on procedures.

We have "The Period Project" in our state (SC). They provided free products and specifically package pads and fill garbage bags with these pad bags for schools. We get our bags from the district base site but they request it from the non-profit.

Our governor just announced last night that our whole state will be receiving these test for in school. Said they will be in schools by the week after Thanksgiving. Haven't heard anything from the district/my director about it yet. Our district is al...

Hi. New School nurse and have a very diverse student population. Ramadan started last week and I have a good amount of kids 1st-6th grade come in complaining of headache, stomach ache, nausea, dizzy. The kids, as well as some parents, have stated it ...

So I just had the Special Ed coordinator come into my office and ask me to be the homebound coordinator for next year. They are trying to get it out from under special education for some reason. I have no experience on this and was told we only have ...

Rules are no medications unless signed by a parent and provided by a parent. That being said vaseline may be used on some cuts if necessary, but nothing with actual medicine in it. Cough drops are a no go also unless paperwork and provided. We just ...

Spoke with my district nursing coordinator and she said legally homebound is to remain under SPED. Only thing I may do is verify the doctor's note and make sure it's updated every 30 days as needed. She agreed that I am not qualified (which is totall...

WIN for me! Field days were both postponed because of rain. It was supposed to be yesterday and today. They got moved to next Tuesday and Wednesday. My last day just happens to be Friday so I will not be here. Will make sure the freezer is full of ic...

Our school has a policy where you do not send them home if found during the school day. That being said after they do go home they are not to return until some form of proof of treatment is provided (receipt of kit purchase, note from lice treatment ...

I have powerpoint for inhaler and epi. First aid is covered with those that get the CPR training. We had 18 teachers get certified or re-certified this year!

1) passes with name, date, and time so they aren't wandering. Also, so I know their full name for emergency reasons (fire drill, look up last name to get number to call home). If the kid can tell a teacher why they need to go to the nurse, then they ...

According to staff here who observe it as well as research I have done water is not allowed. Had no clue.

Only other suggestion I might have is allow the mom to administer the drops when she picks up the paperwork. Hopefully the student may not need them again today. Then see if she can have the doctor sign the paperwork after school/work. I've had this ...

Spoke with admin again and turns out my director (who runs everything and has final say) is actually participating in Ramadan also. From what I've read it isn't supposed to be until puberty but I know for a fact I have 2nd graders doing it. Anyway my...

If you can, place ice cubes in baggies and put them in a cooler to keep frozen so that the staff can just grab them and let the littles run back to play. This way you don't loose any ice packs. But yeah field day is 2 days for me next week... I have...

So I talked to the gym teacher running field day about my concerns and she said some students and parents have already said that they would skip that day due to fasting. I talked to my admin and I think we agreed a generic reminder, like AdobeRN stat...

Technically last Monday for me. Next week no school on Monday and then I leave for vacation on the 1st. When I look at it this way it makes me even happier. Only 7.5 days until summer break!

Hi. So current situation is this... I work at a public charter school that is run by a board and all hires are basically done through the director. To put it in perspective... I applied for the job, had an interview and was offered the position in ju...

Part time school nurse job.

I'm from CT. Lived there all my life until 3 years ago when I moved to SC. Funny enough, less than a month after I joined the FD up there we had a tornado come through our town and I was out in that mess for 12+hours. CT is strong and used to trees a...

Unless emergent, which a teacher should accompany the student, we require nurses passes. The previous nurse had a huge checklist one that I felt unnecessary and a hindrance. Mine simple states student name (multi cultures here so hard to spell or und...

None of ours are required to have CPR cert but a majority of them do and have a desire to obtain it. We are a charter school so the admins push for parents to give back to the school in some way. We have 2 moms who are CPR instructors so the school b...

I have a newly diagnosed epilepsy student. Parents adamant that we do not tell the student he has this issue. I do have diastat in my office that the teachers are aware of. When asking the parents about home meds they stated they told him his seizure...

We have this in our school where a second grader carries his epi around in a fanny pack with zip ties so that they can not get into it unless emergent. We also have the teachers carry an epi from class to class for the other severe students. The pare...