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Why on earth would anyone check BG on a non-diabetic student who passed out? Especially one who is sitting up and drinking by the time the nurse got there? Hypoglycemia would be on the bottom of any list of what could cause this. In most kids, it'...

Enough experience so that you feel confident with your assessment and decision making skills - as a school nurse you are usually out there on your own. Some of that has to do with your own sense of independence and confidence - I have met a couple o...

In NYC there is usually one nurse per school. Depending on circumstances, may have a non-nurse to help out. Also, some schools (with high numbers of kids requiring special services) may have 2 nurses. I was in elementary but now am a supervisor. I...

From your screen name and the school nursing open house you mentioned, I assume you are in NYC. Did you go to the open house? I hope so. I'm a NYC school nurse - and I like it a lot. I did have peds experience but many come without and end up lov...

With stomachache, I always try to do palpation for rebound tenderness; if present, home or ER.

One more question. What about malathion? While I was researching this, I came across it a few times. It is also mentioned on the CDC site (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/lice/factsht_head_lice_treating.htm#best_medicine) as being effectiv...

Wish I had all Martha's information when I was trying to help out a relative with this problem recently (BTW - lice do not discriminate, this relative lives in a very affluent community - and picked up the lice in said community). Just one question...

Thank you for the wealth of info you provide. I'm glad to see this as I saw so many problems with "no nit", etc. in Fl. - kids out of school for months. Later, working as a clinical instructor in peds, saw a kid with horrible 3rd degrees burns becau...

I left nursing for about 4 years - and am going back into it next week - and I'm even looking forward to it. I tried teaching for two years in the NYC teaching fellows program. Eight grade math in a difficult neighborhood. Nursing started looking ...

Before you decide you are not cut out for nursing school - Grades never tell the whole story. Do you think you understand what you are being taught (forget about the grades for the moment)? Have you started clinicals? If so, how are you doing? Wh...

Bergren - Thanks for all the information you provided. I will be starting as a school nurse next week - this wiill help a lot. I did school nursing several years ago in Florida (now in NYC) and we were expected to make up "Health needs awareness li...

Did you look into nurse externship programs as opposed to paying for CNA school? While I was in nursing school, I got a job at NYU as an aide over the summer (they hired nursing students as long as they had completed some clinicals) - classmates work...

One thing about nursing - reason I chose it when I changed careers - are all the different opportunities there are. Some are exceptionally high stress (physically and emotionally), some are much less so. Some depends on you and what you like, some ...

As I said, my very old experience at SUNY was excellent. I'm not sure how it is now. Best clinicals I had were at University Hospital - peds was great, saw things you hardly ever see - and an underserved population. Also had a great community heal...

It has been a while since I've been to allnurses.com - a couple of years, in fact. I still get the newsletter and glance at it - and I was intrigued by the title of this thread so I came to see what it was about. I read the situation and my first r...

I have no advice. Just wanted to comment - how things have changed. I graduated from DMC in 87 - but it was an upper division 2 year program then (which I believe they no longer have). Much larger class size (approx 100), easy to get into (nobody ...

Couldn't help taking one last look here when I was doing something else. Realized I definitely do not belong but could not help speaking my one final truth. Hey, I was just agreeing with the guy. But all feel free to comment however you want now. ...

Haven't been around for a while. I appreciate that one comment Mario always makes cause I surely agree - he sure is a sorry one.

I am constantly amazed by the strength of the people I meet here. Sphinx, you are a survivor, you will handle everything in front of you - just hope you can find easier ways to do it. I have a nephew with Asperger's syndrome. He's quite smart. One...

Micro - glad you saw just caring. Only you know. But, as I recently discovered for myself, poetry can be dangerous! I tried to write a poem and then stuff I imagined happened! Glad it did though. It just needed a new verse.

Hi, all - It's been a while, I've enjoyed the notes so far. My question for micro - do you always speak in metaphors? I myself love a good metaphor, use them often but worry if I go too far - am I getting manic, schizo???? Long time ago, I read a b...

Not a bad idea, might try it myself.

I know lots of guys on female hormones - when I worked in HIV practice had to Rx them for one or two - otherwise wouldn't have come for HIV treatment. BTW, these guys looked better than most of the women patients I saw. When you want to know that mu...

It's amazing what guys will do when their testerone starts to lag. I find it amazing how many guys feel their hormone is somehow superior to hormones of the female sex. I think it's rude to interrupt a discussion with questions that can be easily fo...

Hey, Sphinx. Just cause something worked for me, doesn't mean it will work for you. The seasonal component may have a lot to do with it too. Hope Christmas went well.