RuralMOSchoolRN

RuralMOSchoolRN ADN, RN

ER/School/Rural Nursing/Health Department

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  1. Reported to the BON for cellphone usage?

    I think hospitals have to report to BON if they fire you. It doesn't mean you will lose your license. At the most they might censure you for a day (our state sends a quarterly paper that has all the...
  2. Apparently the CDC would like hospitals to do just that... New regulations state that positive but asymptomatic healthcare workers should NOT quarantine and instead continue working. Also, they want...
  3. Imposter Syndrome as a New Grad NICU Nurse

    I was a new grad in the ER so I understand feeling overwhelmed! Write things down! I wrote down what I all need for a chest tube and what I needed to do for the doc during an LP, etc. Or which...
  4. Shiftkey agency

    I worked as a "private contractor" which means taxes aren't taken out. I set up a separate bank account and placed the taxes that SHOULD be taken out into the account each paycheck. Then at tax time...
  5. Injection Nurse Question

    I have no experience in this but sounds like a good situation. I would just look at what you need to price your treatments at to encompass the 10% to the physician, your product, and your insurance....
  6. New hope in transplant medicine?

    The first genetically modified pig heart was transplanted into a person last week! They inactivated a few genes and added a few human genes to the pig's genome. Pigs are able to grow an adult size...
  7. Am I crazy or too old for considering this??

    I'm 40 and have a K and 5th grader at home. I took a job with our local Health Dept which farms me out as a rural school nurse a few days a week. I LOVE the hours, no weekends, no holidays and the...
  8. Gobbledygook In Nursing

    When I first graduated as a nurse I worked in the ER which turned into the ED (what was wrong with ER and isn't ED insensitive to those with erectile dysfunction??) We were also allowed to...
  9. Positive drugs screen

    Levofloxacin and ofloxacin are both antibiotics than cause a false amphetamine positive. Sudafed type products also can-especially if you had been taking them scheduled for several days (as opposed...
  10. Accused of False Charting

    When I worked in the ER we rarely had time to chart--I'd often have pages of notes on my patients and would back time important things but otherwise chart midway and at the end of the shift. It was...
  11. My son had to have major hand surgery at 1 year old for bilateral syndactyly. I was an ER nurse and this was a totally new field for me--my husband was always waiting for me to ask the right...
  12. Currently a Travel Nurse - feel free to ask me anything about it.

    Thinking about local traveling--what experience is needed? I worked 3 years in a level 1 trauma ER. Then I worked as a nurse coder online for 6 years while I had small children. Now I am...
  13. RAPID rapid test

    I'm in a small rural school district--we have the BinaxNOW tests through a state program. But you also have strep, flu, and mono tests in your nursing office? Who gives those to you/who do you get...
  14. Students Faking Illnesses

    I agree with RatherBHiking. I have a group of kids that I check in with and its amazing how less I see them for "sick" issues. These are kids who parent isn't involved for whatever reason and just...
  15. My first month of training in a level one ED--I cried in my car every day. To the poster--there are so many facets to nursing. If you continue to do well in your treatment and prereqs then of...
  16. Bill Approved to Limit Treatment for Transgender Youth

    Medscape recently had an article regarding transgender teens and young people and guidelines for surgical procedures. An interesting research study is in the article... The most recent...
  17. Complementary Therapy

    I don't use aromatherapy but I definitely use "complementary therapy" in my school. I utilize sugar free peppermints for stomach aches, I have a bottle of baby safe lavender lotion I sometimes use on...
  18. Students Faking Illnesses

    That is often what I see in my office. I had one kid earlier in the year throwing up outside my office (in the garbage thankfully!) turns out her was running in PE (August) and then drank THREE water...
  19. Students Faking Illnesses

    I think you did exactly the right thing and I'm sorry the staff didn't back up your decision. I work at 3 different schools and they run the gamet from wanting them to go home for any little thing to...
  20. New to work and School Nursing.

    I am a RN and have been in school nursing for 3 years now. Honestly, it depends on the school/population of kids. I work in a very rural area and out of 600 kids only have 1 type 1 diabetic, a...
  21. Omicron Variant Update

    Thank you for this! I really enjoy immunology/virology-and seeing how the mutations "change" the virus is interesting to me. PBS had a 3 episode series on different virus' awhile back and learning...
  22. Omicron Variant Update

    So far it appears to be more easily transmitted but less virulent. It will be interesting to see what the multiple mutations do for the virus since Omicron has 10+ which is abnormal (Delta had only...
  23. Imagine If You Will...

    I am in Missouri. I have heard from multiple nursing friends who's hospitals are mandating the vaccine that they are not accepting any reasons for not becoming vaccinated. My best friend is OB...
  24. Imagine If You Will...

    I had a severe allergic reaction to the first Covid vaccine I was given and it also set off my autoimmune disease. I cannot receive additional vaccinations for medical reasons which my rheumatologist...
  25. Hugs girl! I'm part of a rural Health Dept mainly as a district wide School Nurse and helped in our vaccine clinic the other day. Its crazy-and I can't imagine doing it every day like you are! I...