2cool4schoolRN85

An understatement ?I feel the exact same way. Every year I find some new protocol or something that I'm like "huh, didn't know that I was supposed to be doing that."

I hate that this is something that has to be at the forefront of our minds as school nurses nowadays. Do you guys keep any "extreme" first aid supplies in the event you were to have a school shooting or some other extreme school emergency? I'm thinking like vent dressings for chest puncture wounds, BleedStop, hemostatic dressings, etc. I feel like I want to have some just in case but also don't want to waste my budget on supplies that hopefully will never get used.

We were all brand-new nurses at one point and made a mistake that we thought was the end of the world and then looking back we laugh at how insignificant it was. Just wanting to start a thread of your most embarrassing/ memorable/ laughable moments as a new grad. Mine was when I was just off of orientation, maybe a week or 2. My patient went into unstable afib RVR, called the rapid team, etc. Pt was stabilized and started on a Cardizem gtt. Our bags at the time had a little vial you had to crack the top on to mix it into the saline for your drip. Well, this was unbeknownst to me, I kept titrating my drip, nothing was happening, and I was freaking out. I went and got our charge nurse who immediately figured out the problem, titrated back down to starting dose and ole memaw's heart was happy again. I went into a full spin out; was convinced I was going to lose my license, ready to report myself to the board and burn my diploma ? No harm, no foul, the patient was perfectly fine. But guess who has NEVER EVER forgotten to pop the little cap on the cardizem bag since?

I have been a school nurse for a while now and have noticed these parents have gotten way worse. I mainly deal with high school students so calling home to ask to leave before seeing the nurse is a big issue. And parents seem to be sitting at the door, keys in hand, waiting for sweet Susie to call; they are up here in a moment's notice to pull their kid out of school for the littlest things. I think this is also somewhat contributing to the issue of this generation having ZERO resiliency. Any sort of friction and parents are there to save the day and it's always everyone else's fault. I also have the complete opposite of the spectrum of parents, have no idea where their kids are and what they are doing, ever. I have a diabetic kid on a CGM and mom has the notifications shut off for it. She has told me "I can't stand to hear it beep." And the student has also told me mom keeps them shut off. Every few months it seems mom will check the kid's CGM and of course, it's like the singular time that week they have been "HIGH" two arrows up ?. And then proceeds to call me screaming that it's been high all morning and why haven't I addressed it?!?! Excuse me ma'am the bell literally just rang, and looking back it's been high for maybe 30 minutes. But thank you for stepping in to parent today, see you next month. This is basically just a rant post. Feel free to share your crazy parent stories or rant as well. ?