CampyCamp RN

Mostly a Peds nurse

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    LOL - from the mouths of babes...

    CampyCamp replied to k1p1ssk's topic in School

    A kinder child came in cradling something that was hard, white, and had red wet stuff on one end. He says "I think I lost my tooth. It was laying on my tray" I poke it and look at it "did you have...
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    How do you get paid?

    CampyCamp replied to scout mom's topic in School

    Sums it up. Every now and then I consider some other job that pays the same and wouldn't result in my name being thrown around facebook when I fail to satisfy a snowflake. You know, like overnights at...
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    How do you get paid?

    CampyCamp replied to scout mom's topic in School

    Same here. My hourly is half of my hospital
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    What do you wear to work as a school nurse?

    CampyCamp replied to verdeacres's topic in School

    We wear the same as the teachers- except jeans day, in my case. It is hard. I get paid peanuts weekly and dressing business casual and trying not to look dumpy isn't easy. I miss rotating through the...
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    What ta heck?

    CampyCamp replied to OhioBPH's topic in School

    Same! This is our first day back because apparently, in this area, they celebrate by eating their badly stored leftovers in the woods while shooting deer on the monday after thanksgiving. The puking...
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    Does starting in peds make it harder to transition to adult?

    CampyCamp replied to wvickroy's topic in Pediatric

    I actually did the transition. I much prefer kids but it's limited in my area, our units always furlough nurses, and besides I wanted a variety of skill areas that are not available here in "fun sized...
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    Ugh...feel so inadequate sometimes

    CampyCamp replied to SaltineQueen's topic in School

    Wrists suck. Fingers as well. I tell the kids and the parents that, too. Well, I phrase it more professionally. A couple years ago my daughter broke hers. She told me so but, who can know. I took her...
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    How to Stop a Nose Bleed??

    CampyCamp replied to BunnyBunnyBSNRN's topic in School

    No. Just no. I'd have the kids sticking them in their nose and making it all worse. :) Then my keys would be contaminated and I'd have to live here! I have heard ice on the back of neck, base of...
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    Lack of Manners

    CampyCamp replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    Ooooh No. I cannot stand kids trying to be cute and sneaking up to surprise me. I hate being started. Like a second of physical pain throughout my body. I try to temper myself because I know they are...
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    C'Mon Now!

    CampyCamp replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    Tell her "i haven't needed to. They seem to understand that if they're old enough for sex, they are old enough to be responsible to buy a test. And then stare at her
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    Futile ressusitation

    CampyCamp replied to amzyRN's topic in Emergency

    Are you using hypothermia s/p ROSC? As a CCU/ICU nurse, that seemed to be a turning point in how many were walking out instead of becoming vent dependent with other anoxic brain injury insults. I used...
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    Administer OTC medications or No?

    CampyCamp replied to RNTadaaaa's topic in School

    Your form sounds a lot like the various forms used at camps. My view is that if the physican selects or deselects the meds of their choice on the form and signs, that are giving an order set for the...
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    Out of state overnight camping

    CampyCamp replied to stephrooth's topic in School

    School-sponsored Trips - The Role of the School Nurse - National Association of School Nurses Now find out the exceptions- I can go to NY on a class trip and provide care to MY students as long as I...
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    Chronic Lice

    CampyCamp replied to RN4kids18's topic in School

    Our policy allows us to at our discretion (which is silly, because I was not aware that I needed "permission" to use my discretion to refer to CPS. Big eye roll.) It's been done, usually as part of an...
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    This really happened.

    CampyCamp replied to KeeperOfTheIceRN's topic in School

    Best case scenario is that the teacher's albuterol would have helped and parents would be satisfied- but the NURSE is still out of the loop of a child having an acute need and you would have not known...
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    When will the lice drama end???

    CampyCamp replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    I'm with you. Virtually every school district within 20 miles of mine has a "nit free" policy, so naturally we must, too. I'm so over the hysteria. People above me are upset because I don't exclude...
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    Weird reasons to come to school nurse?

    CampyCamp replied to Avill's topic in School

    Today a first grader was in tears first thing in the morning (and I have a rule that you must go to your room first unless body fluids are actively spilling from your body. Icky fluids, not tears.)...
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    Preparing for the unthinkable

    CampyCamp replied to Jacquipals's topic in School

    I know the feeling. One of my daughter's 7th grade classmates brought ammo to school about a month ago. He's one of the last students that I would have thought lived in a home with firearms. Child is...
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    PANDAS/PANS

    CampyCamp replied to halohg's topic in School

    Thank-you! I know some doctors deny that this is a legitimate dx but it is a diagnosis that some kids have so the more information we are armed with, the better. Especially since the antivaxxers LOVE...
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    Dear coworkers, I'm not your mom (or free PCP)

    CampyCamp replied to guest464345's topic in School

    I encountered this a lot at camp and chalked it up to most camp employees being under 21 and needing more nurturing. If I wasn't there, they literally would call mom for advice or maybe they already...
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    Preparing for the unthinkable

    CampyCamp replied to Jacquipals's topic in School

    Our district provided backpacks to all rooms. Active shooter scenarios drove their purchase but they are for all hazards. (weather, fire, etc) They were pre-made and stocked with: (in no particular...
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    Glasses - Life Hack

    CampyCamp replied to LikeTheDeadSea's topic in School

    I've used safety
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    Music in your office?

    CampyCamp replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    I think some of our nurses work at private christian schools? I try to keep my health rooms (at school and at camp) inviting enough that kids aren't afraid to stop by (We aren't just flu shots and...
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    Music in your office?

    CampyCamp replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    Usually, in the elementary school, I get piped in music that the secretaries play. Usually it's soft rock/pop (lots of 80s and 90s and I like it except for one particular artist that I think is way...
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    Weird reasons to come to school nurse?

    CampyCamp replied to Avill's topic in School

    Little 1 grader- "Bobby fisted me on the bus" Me "um WHAT now???" 1- He fisted my eye, or maybe he elbowed it, but it hurts. Me "ohhhh, he *punched* you. Everyone knows how much it hurts if you say...