Mrs.B

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1. Wise nurses please give me advice, from med surg to dialysis

   Mrs.B replied to Mrs.B-'s topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

   THANK YOU FOR THE COMMENTS I Appreciate all your advice I am going to take tho position and give it my best shot. It is really great to be able to bounce questions off people who are not bias one way...

2. Ever heard of La Leche League meetings being held in a hospital?

   Mrs.B replied to Mrs.B's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Thank you all for taking the time to help me out! Arwen, you made me remember something...the spot where i was thinking about having the meetings isn't part of the Ob unit. It's a teaching center...

3. Ever heard of La Leche League meetings being held in a hospital?

   Mrs.B posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   Hello Everyone, I've lurked on this site for about 4 years and i'm finally posting something :) Anyway, I am an RN not in practice at the moment because i stay home with my two little ones. I am a...

4. Home birth vs. hospital

   Mrs.B replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Disclaimer: I am not an OB nurse ( I am just a humble School nurse! However, I am 22 wks with my first and have been doing a lot of research on the topic of birth etc. From what I understand, in...

5. Sports Physical Frustration

   Mrs.B replied to Mrs.B's topic in School

   Yikes! I was so furious when I originally posted I think I didn't make myself too clear on the situation. I don't DO the physicals, I just check the kids off saying that they HAD physicals. We have...

6. Sports Physical Frustration

   Mrs.B posted a topic in School

   Ok, many of you already know that I am a new school nurse. My biggest pet peeve has become sports PEs. The nurse that worked at my school before retired before I was even hired so I was never given...

7. Is there an increase in headaches among junior high students in New york?

   Mrs.B replied to dherb's topic in School

   The no breakfast thing can be tricky. I would say the majority of my students c/o H/A in the late morning hours haven't had breakfast or anything to drink for that matter! I have noticed that it...

8. Do you belong to a union?

   Mrs.B replied to Huganurse's topic in School

   The CSEA employees may get treated better but under their contract I make less than some of the custiodians and secretaries! Our nurse in the elementary school has been in the district for almost 10...

9. Advice for the "hygiene" talk...

   Mrs.B posted a topic in School

   It's the new school nurse again!! A teacher just asked me to talk to a student about his hygiene. Actually, he basically told me that the kid plain old stank!! What is the best way to go about...

10. Do you belong to a union?

    Mrs.B replied to Huganurse's topic in School

    The teachers in my district are in NYSIT (I think that's how you spell it). I am aware of several school nurses in other districts nearby that are in that particular union. So nobody likes the idea...

11. Do you belong to a union?

    Mrs.B replied to Huganurse's topic in School

    Wow! Thank you so much! My comment about the ANA had to do with ALL school nurses throughout the country not just in my

12. Do you belong to a union?

    Mrs.B replied to Huganurse's topic in School

    I am in a very small district in Suffolk County, New York. I am one of two RNs for 1,800 students. We are in the secretaries union (CSEA). The other nurse in my district tried about 2 years ago to...