NurseBorg BSN

NurseBorg has 21 years experience as a BSN.

Latest Activity

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   Attendance Overboard

   NurseBorg replied to ChristmasNurse's topic in School

   https://www.dshs.texas.gov/idcu/health/schools_childcare/resources/ I'm in Texas as well and we follow the texas department of state health services exclusion criteria and they state they need to be fever free for 24 hours without the use of fever re...
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   Nursing Experience on Salary Scale

   NurseBorg replied to kmazur15's topic in School

   I'm in Texas and had 20 years of hospital experience before schoool nursing and I started at year 0 on the teacher pay scale- kinda disappointing, but I'm so much happier at my job than I ever was at the hospital so I suck it up. My district pays the...
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   Grant money for Hearing and Vision Equipment

   NurseBorg replied to KH_RN6's topic in School

   Make sure you are able to use the spot screener on your students. In Texas they can only be used on students 5 and younger or SPED. My audiometer is ancient as well, but works great. It should be getting yearly calibrations so as long as it is passin...
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   How many "school sleeps" until Holiday break?

   NurseBorg replied to ruby_jane's topic in School

   3 more with student and then 2 PD days then return on January 6th! Can't wait!
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   Texas School Nurses

   NurseBorg replied to EnoughWithTheIce's topic in School

   This is only my 3rd year in school nursing, but this is what our policy states. I have not been asked so far to do this, but would follow our policy. Herbal medications, dietary supplements, or other substances not FDA approved will not be ad...
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   Happy Nurses' Week, my loves!

   NurseBorg replied to Farawyn's topic in School

   This is my 2nd year at my school and my 2nd year in school nursing- I spent the first 20 years working in a hospital mostly in the OR. I think I'm one of the lucky ones on here, but I feel very valued and appreciated at my school. I have supportive a...
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   "Heating Pads"

   NurseBorg replied to CanIcallmymom's topic in School

   I use rice filled socks that I heat up in the microwave and allow them to be used for 5-10 minutes in the clinic and then it's back to class.
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   Countdown to Spring Break.....

   NurseBorg replied to AdobeRN's topic in School

   5 more hours left until spring break and then only 52 days until the end of the school year! I'm so ready!!
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   C'Mon Now!

   NurseBorg replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

   I just had a 2nd grade teacher send down a kid so I could teach him how to blow his nose because she did not think he was doing it right... only 3 more days until break!
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    Y'all know whats fun??

    NurseBorg replied to KeeperOfTheIceRN's topic in School

    What is the pink book? I had my first few arabic ones this year and many French Congo ones to try to figure out!