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Are the teachers aware of the student's medical diagnosis? Is this student on a 504? I notify teachers if one of their students has diabetes (in fact, that is an accommodation listed on their 504s). Teachers should be aware of high/low symptoms...

Then there's your answer. You can be reprimanded. None of us are going to know if you can lose your license over this. Call the BON and ask if you are that worried.

Might be good to talk to the district and advocate for the district providing PPE for certain situations. Health advocacy is part of our job, after all.

I have always wondered why they have licensed counselors in those roles. They don't seem to function as counselors except in very limited situations. Our guidance counselors do manage the 504s, but more from a paperwork aspect. If there is clinical ...

Hello, I am wondering how your schools handle restroom access? I work at a middle school. The school does not have a consistent rule for restroom use. Some pods of teachers give kids a certain number of bathroom passes per quarter/semester, som...

This is how I handle it. My thought is that I should not have to write a yearly bathroom pass for all menstruating students. Menstrual care should be manageable within the school's general guidelines. Currently our toileting plan doesn't seem r...

Our school handbook asks students to stay home if they have a contagious process and lists pink eye as an example but our health dept doesn't have a guideline and as far as I know, exclusion is generally not evidence based. Typically I only send...

I'm sorry about the tests, that sounds very stressful and disheartening. I can't tell from your post...does your wife want to be a nurse? Or is this more something you are wanting? Sometimes when we do things to satisfy another person's dream,...

I'm sorry about the pay shock. My paycheck feels sad as well, compared to my "hourly rate" (I'm salaried, but when you break it down to hours). It's not that they pay me a bad hourly wage, I just don't actually work many hours. We get 1/4 of the year...

I'm lost...what are the incident reports for? Why is this possible further court evidence? Individualized Healthcare Plans for the School Nurse (Sunrise River Press) comes with a computer program that has auto-filled care plan templates. It's a...

Do you all contact parents prior to completing detailed assessments? (Anything more than assessing for current safety.) The assessments linked above are far beyond what I would be comfortable doing. When staff bring me a student they feel is und...

I did not post the message you replied to, but the way I read it is that if you only require medical notes for certain kids (those that are absent a lot) for a specific set of symptoms, it is discriminatory. If your district has consistent expe...

Also lots of pushback when I suggest ideas to comply with the statute (permission forms for health lessons, having an electronic method of providing consent, etc.) like I am just being this huge stick in the mud. It makes me feel dumb and incredibly...

Congrats! That is so exciting! I would give specifics on how your school and students would benefit from you staying, above and beyond what a LPN nurse would provide, if they moved your placement. (You know the students and already have relatio...

Idaho adopted a Parental Bill of Rights in July of this year. It states we must have a policy to address: "The public school's responsibility for notifying a student's parent or legal guardian regarding known changes in the student's mental, emotiona...

Your district doesn't have an attendance policy? That seems odd. We have a few attendance codes, including excused (anytime a parent notifies us a student will be absent), unexcused (absent w no communication), medical (doctors note or if the st...

Does he have an IEP? Or any cognitive delay? I am the go-to for students who need assistance in the restroom, due to developmental delays. I don't mind that part, but I do require a toileting plan to be in place, to protect both myself and the studen...

Oh, that's an interesting procedure. Do many parents bring in OTC meds? I kind of like that idea...the number of kids coming in for OTC's is astonishing. Everything from pain meds to allergy meds to "supplements for my low iron". 🙄

That staff to student ration seems good actually. The high schools in our district have that many students, medically fragile rooms and the nurse does not have an MA. They fly solo. I'm at a middle school with 750 students. I am only alloca...

That's a bit much, for sure. Sounds like she might have some angst about possible diagnosis, and maybe turned to you as a friend. Or maybe she just has bad boundaries 😄 Pre-work hour calls are the WORST! Ugh.

SAME! I get so upset when my daughter reports feeling sick and the school doesn't allow her to call me. School nurses are not the parent, we are not the attendance police. I truly think it is important to put our assumptions aside, when a stude...

My job description actually specifies that the health office is a resource for students and staff. I get a lot of staff visits for OTC meds, band aids, temp checks, etc. I err on the side of caution, and never tell a staff member how much or what typ...

Hello, my admin and our SRO have suggested I start recording conversations with parents, to provide documentation in the event things get heated. Where I live only 1 person needs to be aware that the conversation is being recorded (it would be me) fo...

I am in a One Party state; it is definitely legal here. Heated might have been the wrong word. I can't recall ever arguing with a parent ever, but I have had them turn around and tell admin or the district office and lie about what I said. ...