EnoughWithTheIce

EnoughWithTheIce

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  1. Enjoy your Thanksgiving

    EnoughWithTheIce replied to Glitternurse's topic in School

    Happy Thanksgiving to all my school nurse colleagues that so need a break by this point in the school year!! You get me through some tough days and I am thankful for each one of you. I am most...

  2. C'Mon Now!

    EnoughWithTheIce replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    All I had to read of that was SPED aide and I barely needed to read the rest to know how that story was going to go. I just don't know what it is about SPED that thinks we are there to serve their...

  3. C'Mon Now!

    EnoughWithTheIce replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    I know!!! I usually point out to them that my budget is $400 / year for 750 students and by the time I buy band-aids, probe covers, and maxi -pads - I have very little left. A lot of them are shocked...

  4. Dealing with teachers

    EnoughWithTheIce replied to SassyTachyRN's topic in School

    BINGO!!!!!

  5. Students running AT office

    EnoughWithTheIce posted a topic in School

    I am at a middle school and I had a student come in to see me this morning requesting his thumb be wrapped because "those student trainer girls wrapped it in this huge tight big ball and it hurt and I...

  6. Students running AT office

    EnoughWithTheIce replied to EnoughWithTheIce's topic in School

    I handed this over to my principal and I think he is contacting the district athletic director. He almost went through the roof! I will keep you guys posted if I find out anything else. I know she...

  7. C'Mon Now!

    EnoughWithTheIce replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    Let's hope it means that she is NOT pregnant as you will be seeing her daily for the next 9

  8. C'Mon Now!

    EnoughWithTheIce replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    Used to be an EMT gives him absolutely NO diagnostic, prescriptive authority in his current position. Maybe there is a reason he is no longer an EMT. I had a former army medic football coach (also...

  9. C'Mon Now!

    EnoughWithTheIce replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    Student: I have a nosebleed Me: it looks like it stopped before you got here Student: No, it is still bleeding Me: If it makes you feel better, pinch for 5 minutes Student (after 12 seconds of...

  10. C'Mon Now!

    EnoughWithTheIce replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    At the beginning of the school year, athletics sent some crutches in for a kid. Not only did I not allow the kid to use them, I hid those puppies. So far, they have not asked for them

  11. Fever Question - 5 yr old

    EnoughWithTheIce replied to PAB985RN's topic in School

    Had a very similar situation 2 years ago. student even hospitalized at a Children's Hospital while they ran every test imaginable and consulted with an infectious disease specialist who couldn't find...

  12. what would you do - meds w/o labels

    EnoughWithTheIce replied to jnemartin's topic in School

    I do this also!!! Even if I can identify it on Drugs.com, still do not know an expiration date if it is OTC or know if it is actually prescribed for that particular student if it is an RX drug....

  13. C'Mon Now!

    EnoughWithTheIce replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    I just had a SCIENCE teacher ask me what I meant by viral illness.................... I think I can't make it 3 more days until the break!!! C'MON

  14. Teacher Frustration!!!

    EnoughWithTheIce replied to k1p1ssk's topic in School

    To me, staff are really the hardest part of the job. Even the parents are not as trying to my nerves as the teachers are!!! I have really learned to try to not let things bother me like I used to. I...

  15. 911 call

    EnoughWithTheIce replied to SaltineQueen's topic in School

    In my experience, whenever I have had to call 911 - there is no time after to decompress. There is usually a long line of kids waiting out the door for me which gives absolutely no time to transition...

  16. Out of state overnight camping

    EnoughWithTheIce replied to stephrooth's topic in School

    Right, it would stress me so much that I wouldn't enjoy a minute of it. So many legalities!!! And you can talk until you are blue in the face with other chaperones, students, parents but they will...

  17. Needy Staff day

    EnoughWithTheIce replied to Supernrse01's topic in School

    Every year, I get older and the teachers get younger and

  18. This really happened.

    EnoughWithTheIce replied to KeeperOfTheIceRN's topic in School

    Can we not find a middle

  19. This really happened.

    EnoughWithTheIce replied to KeeperOfTheIceRN's topic in School

    Several years (and school districts ago), the receptionist shared hers with a student who was not in any distress at all!! I also had a school nurse friend who found out that her athletic coaches had...

  20. When will the lice drama end???

    EnoughWithTheIce replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    I am in middle school and my first case this year of 'lice drama" started today. 2 moms e-mailed the PE teacher to tattle on a girl picking out bugs and throwing them at their 2 darlings. First the...

  21. Safety Plan ideas, anyone?

    EnoughWithTheIce replied to J-lynn's topic in School

    yes, this was my first

  22. C'Mon Now!

    EnoughWithTheIce replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    1. Don't tell me you don't want a ride to your dad's car in the wheelchair when you spent 30 minutes crying that you cannot bear any weight on your non swollen, non -tender ankle!! C'MON NOW.... 2....

  23. horrible immunization compliance rate

    EnoughWithTheIce replied to jnemartin's topic in School

    At the end of the day, if the admin chooses not to follow state law then the consequences are on them and not you. Just document. document, document!! Hopefully, it will not take a measles or...

  24. Ambulance call

    EnoughWithTheIce replied to J-lynn's topic in School

    We are the only medical professionals on campus!!! AND with very little tools, we just have to rely on our nursing assessment to make a quick decision about calling 911. I agree with these other...

  25. C'Mon Now!

    EnoughWithTheIce replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    I had a parent complain to the principal one year because I did not give her daughter a piece of bread after she accidentally swallowed her peppermint. Did not really get a chance to do anything as...