ChristmasNurse

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  1. Do You Work at Your Kid's School?

    ChristmasNurse replied to SchoolNurseK's topic in School

    He's a freshman and will likely find a way to roll with it. I have to say, I think his attitude is rather healthy. Two of my own kids had the "nurse's kid" in their classes in middle and high school...

  2. AZ Governor orders all schools open by March 15, or after Spring Break

    ChristmasNurse replied to jnemartin's topic in School

    Lack of consulting and communicating has been the major issue throughout this pandemic when it comes to schools. Not understanding just how difficult-to-impossible achieving mitigation standards is...

  3. Staying or Going?

    ChristmasNurse replied to BooBooCrew's topic in School

    I plan on staying. It's only my second "full" year. We've dealt with covid, snow days becoming "remote" days, staff freaking out, being pulled to the vaccine clinic and contact tracing when kids were...

  4. When to leave school?

    ChristmasNurse replied to nursex23's topic in School

    I agree with Flare. Two weeks in sufficient. I get the guilt but you can't stall your opportunities for satisfaction out of

  5. Tired of being "the bad guy"...

    ChristmasNurse replied to caretakerofkids's topic in School

    I'm in an urban district and most of the families have been pretty good about taking precautions (or just staying virtual) since the community has been hit pretty hard. But lately I've had a few...

  6. If you have gotten your COVID Vaccine...

    ChristmasNurse replied to Cattz's topic in School

    After the first dose, I grew a third arm and after the second dose, I became autistic....sorry, I'm just so tired of battling crazy misinformation the school office staff is saturating themselves in....

  7. How has your role as a school nurse changed with COVID?

    ChristmasNurse replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in School

    Nurses in our district actually work for the local health department. We've been used for contact tracing while we were on lockdown and now are vaccinating throughout the city when not in school....

  8. Parents STILL Sending Sick Kids to School

    ChristmasNurse replied to lifelearningrn's topic in School

    I'm actually in the mood to send kids home today for headaches and questionable sore throats. But only my frequent fliers are visiting

  9. Med Surg without CNAs?

    ChristmasNurse replied to RN/WI's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I hope it's not a trend. Both a unit clerk and three techs were supposed to be on day shift in my understaffed

  10. Athletics = Madness

    ChristmasNurse replied to guest464345's topic in School

    I'll say!

  11. Athletics = Madness

    ChristmasNurse replied to guest464345's topic in School

    And that's a good thing! I've said to several people including my principal that we can take a lot of what we are doing and move forward such as... not endorse policies that encourage us to...

  12. New Grads and Acute Care Hiring

    ChristmasNurse replied to CardiTeleRN's topic in General Nursing

    Say what? All of us have dealt with a few nurses who were on extended light duty because they hurt their arm slipping on an icy parking lot surface on a 85 degree Summer day (slight exaggeration, but...

  13. New Grads and Acute Care Hiring

    ChristmasNurse replied to CardiTeleRN's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed. In addition, hospitals have stopped a lot of what student nurse can do during clinicals. My guess is liabilty, HIPAA and HCAPs have contributed to lack of student nurse...

  14. What's the best specialty for someone who hates small talk?

    ChristmasNurse replied to climbeRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Don't you have to talk with staff then? LOL. I'd say PACU. I'm surprised NICU at night would be quieter. When it comes to babies, I figure that's round the clock drama for the

  15. Athletics = Madness

    ChristmasNurse replied to guest464345's topic in School

    No one wants to be the bad guy. It took our state sports association weeks to make the call because they were so afraid of people being mad at them that they kept kicking the can down the road and...

  16. Problems with other nurse

    ChristmasNurse replied to guest83140's topic in School

    Well...at least we're self aware whack jobs.

  17. Problems with other nurse

    ChristmasNurse replied to guest83140's topic in School

    During orientation, one school nurse told me: In this district, you'll run into two types of nurses: those seeking work-balance and those that are complete whack

  18. Anaphylaxis: Epinephrine First, Period.

    ChristmasNurse replied to SchoolNurseK's topic in School

    Question as I'm still only in my second year. We had a child come into my office with the entire side of her face swelling up. Ironically, the parent was on her way to deliver meds and doc orders at...

  19. Is it wrong to stay in med-surg?

    ChristmasNurse replied to Reds5588's topic in General Nursing

    Oh my goodness, stay where you are if you love what you are doing. I work in the schools now, but was a night float at a chronically understaffed hospital prior to that. I could be found on med-surg,...

  20. Attendance Overboard

    ChristmasNurse posted a topic in School

    Curious how everyone here deals with this: My principal is nuts about attendance. I’ve had several kids with flu whose parents are afraid to keep kids home because they don’t want to get in...

  21. my office is NOT a nap room!

    ChristmasNurse replied to ihavealltheice's topic in School

    Love it. I had a little one come to see my straight off the bus. He looked very distraught and told me "I was cozy in my bed and my mom woke me up". I sympathetically said "I don't have a cure for...

  22. Attendance Overboard

    ChristmasNurse replied to ChristmasNurse's topic in School

    She probably would if she didn’t live frenzied. Im usually pretty good about not letting that effect me, but it’s flu season....which is coinciding with truancy

  23. Sick of nurses "referring" to our specialty

    ChristmasNurse replied to Jedrnurse's topic in School

    People think that until they’ve tried it. I know plenty of critical care nurses who subbed as a school nurse one day and said “there’s a lot of responsibilities in that job”. I was a float...

  24. How do you deal with 5th disease and rashes at your school?

    ChristmasNurse replied to NurseAlice's topic in School

    I sent some kids home this week....sort of. I called to give parents the heads up and they decided to come get

  25. I don’t know if I like school nursing

    ChristmasNurse replied to nursex23's topic in School

    When I started, I had kids running in to use the bathroom. The custodians even started locking the bathrooms the kids should have been using because the kids would just come to the nurse. I started...