ChristmasNurse

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 and it was the complete opposite. The high schoo...

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 in so many schools has also been a problem. We had...

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 all remote....definitely an adventure. But I stil...

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

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 families not exactly be honest about large gatherings ...

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. Anyway...I got the Pfizer just before Christm...

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. The schools are in hybrid mode, the majority of stud...

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

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

I'll say! LOL

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 come to work/school sick not have our health...

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 you get what I mean). I can't imagine how many pe...

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 experiences. So a lot students feel more like outsiders duri...

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 parents.

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 leading on the kids and the (idiot) parents. So eve...

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

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 jobs.

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 time (first week of school). Kid was calm and as I...

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, tele, ICU, or ER...plus maybe twice on the behavi...

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 trouble for excessive absences. I’ve sent kids home with hi...

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 that". Cutie pie said "ok thanks" and walked a way...

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 meetings.

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 nurse at the hospital so I’m used to hearing other nurses s...

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

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 passive aggressively by just closing the door and ...