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So sorry to hear about your daugter's injuries. My daughter has been fencing foil for 3 years. So far her only injuries have been lost toenails btw she also has flat feet. Her team's A1 is in PT 3x wk for injury to the foot & ankle of her forward leg. This girl has a very aggressive style & comes down hard on the strip. I am not an Ortho nurse but until one comes along you might want to look at this site with data on fencing injury rates & patterns. http://www.exra.org/FencingChptr.htm I hope all will be well with your daughter. Val K.

http://www.intransit-international.com/life_paris_hospital_health.html Check out this web page, it has information on English speaking Pharmacies, American & British hospitals etc. in France. Good luck to your brother.

Veetach, A cynic is what an optimist calls a realist.

Babs, you are not alone. I have a dual alarm across the room & another by my bed all set a few minutes apart & all are loud & obnoxious. This usually gets me out of bed on time.

If you can make it through a year or two in the hospital the nursing world will be your oyster. It will be nearly impossible for you to be hired in another settings based on your degree alone without solid experience. School nursing requires clinical experience. It's not just handing out bandaids. Many children in schools today have plenty of health problems - diabetes, life threatening allergies, seizure disorders, cardiac disease, etc. They & their parents depend on the school nurse to manage those problems. They deserve a nurse with the experience & the confidence to know what to do when something is really wrong. Public health nurses are often rotated through various clinics- immunization, prenatal, tuberculosis, etc. Many health departments have received emergency grants from homeland security for smallpox vaccine, anthrax response etc. They want experienced nurses to deal with these issues. You worked hard for your degree & I hope you can find your way in nursing but if you really believe that you can't make it through a year or two of basic nursing experience maybe you can apply some credits to a second bachelors. PT? OT? Cytotechnology? Maybe a masters in something other than nursing. Social Work? Psychology? Speech therapy?

Adult protective services will do a heavy duty cleaning, but they really only scratch the service. I went into an apartment after a heavy duty cleaning & when I opened the kitchen cabinets a horde of roaches poured out & raced around the walls like they were in the indy 500.

These are the ones I remember from way back when. Oh, oh, oh, to touch and feel a girl's lady parts, ah heaven. On old Olympus's tippy top a fat azz German viewed some hopps.

In my experiance a physician must perform the sports physical. Usually the form is sent home on enrollment or at the end of the school year to be returned when school resumes in September, the physical must be completed before the student begins to participate in the sport. You should review the physical when it is returned. Sports physicals are good for 12 months. Have you tried the NASN or the NYSASN? They are good resources. NASN has various listservs & the NYSASN has a spring conference scheduled for March 21 to March 24. http://www.nasn.org/ months.http://www.nysasn.org/ Good luck, Mrs. B.

dherb, Just came across this report & thought of you. medscape is free to register. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/450109 Context of Pediatric Headache Points to School-Related Stress LONDON (Reuters Health) Feb 28 - Noisy classrooms and tough academic subjects can literally be a real headache for kids, Swedish researchers have found. Working on the assumption that children probably have insights into what triggers their own headaches, Dr. Birgitta Hovelius and colleagues took the novel approach of actually asking a group of 10 to 14-year-olds about their experience of headache. "We are trying to understand children's intuitive knowledge and understanding of factors affecting their health from the point of view that their narratives represent an important source of knowledge in the area of medical research," Dr. Hovelius told Reuters Health. "Such research has been neglected." The children consistently linked their headaches with conditions in school, the researchers report in The British Journal of General Practice. "Specifically with more theoretically oriented subjects--mathematics or Swedish--a noisy and disorderly school environment, and insecure relations with classmates." Another regular theme when the children were encouraged to talk freely was insecurity or conflict in their family. "The biomedically oriented healthcare services and the healthcare information to which the children had access scarcely provided them with any real help in dealing with their headaches," the researchers write. As many as 50% to 70% of adolescents report headaches, according to recent studies. "The results of our study elucidate why physicians will fail to make sense of children's headaches if they approach them from a purely biomedical perspective," Dr. Hovelius told Reuters Health. "This stresses the importance of broadening the consultation to include aspects at the personal and contextual level." Br J Gen Pract 2003;53:210-215. I hope it's not really considered novel to ask an adolescent about their experience of headache. Just seems like part of a good assessment. (JMHO)

Absolutely, it's a classic, they usually come in @ 10:30 with the no breakfast headache. It's not just middle school students who skip breakfast.

I work in a Pre-K to 8th Grade school in N.Y. In my experience I am seeing very few headaches in the upper grades, most are in conjunction with flu like symptoms or in students who refuse or forget to wear their glasses. In the schools where I have practiced, the 2nd grade students are the ones with the most frequent c/o headaches. No otc's here without a 504.

Good advice from flowerchild. Just a few more things. You will also need a box of gloves & some zip lock bags to make ice packs unless you will be using chemical cold packs. If it's an event for students only you may want to ask the principal for the emergency contact cards. If you have a pocket mask bring it just in case you have to perform CPR. Have fun & don't be afraid to call for help.

Acquired epispadias? Epispadias is congenital, yet it seems to fit. http://www.atlasperovic.com/contents/11.htm Unbelievable that people really can be born with a member split like a hot dog bun. Be a nurse...never know what weird thing you will see next.

The one and only time I saw maggots in a wound was 19 years ago as a brand new RN. To the best of my memory a young man was admitted p mva with multiple fx & soft tissue injuries. He had been thrown from the car into the dirt at the sideof the road. After a few days he began complaining about irritation under the dressing on his R hand. The charge nurse saw the maggots :eek, called the nursing supervisor who cleaned the wound and called the surgeon. He was not happy that she had removed the maggots , said it was the best thing that could have happened to clean pt's wound. If you are interested in the deliberate use of maggots in wound care check this link. http://www.smtl.co.uk/WMPRC/Maggots/maggots.html

I used to drive by an ob/gyn office in Woodbury NJ with a sign outside reading Dr Wan B. Lo