Mrs.B

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 or another. I am looking forward to having a nor...

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 volunteer breastfeeding counselor with La Leche Leagu...

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 where they have things like CPR classes, staff educat...

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 telling a "smelly" kid that he's got to clean up? BTW - ...

Some of you might have seen this already but I think it's really funny You might be a School Nurse if... 1) You have been accused of growing head lice and planting them on specific children. 2) You have questioned a child if their vomitus looked l...

Ok so what rights do we have to info? Should I write up a form letter release to have parents sign in order to get immunization records etc. from MD offices? Or, are the MDs reponsible for that? I've had secretaries tell me that they can't even MAI...

WHY WHY WHY??? do docs do this??? Is there any medical reason for it? Please OB nurses tell me... I think I'd pop my OB in the n-ts if he did that to me! BTW, I'm 7 mos pg and a tad hormonal at the moment....

I'm a school RN and have a student Mystique but everyone calls her Minx, so which is worse!? Another student named Destiny, she was an oops baby born 12 years after her other sibs. Oh and there are the identical twin girls named Shakir and Shakur. ...

I have a student, an asthmatic, who was recently put on Advair (takes that at home), uses an Albuterol inhaler PRN and also has an order for Albuterol nebs PRN. She is a very gregarious and charming 7th grader that I have gotten to know fairly well ...

I started out as a volley EMT (did it for 4 years) and can honestly say that I learned things in an ambulance that you just don't learn in nursing school! It is also a great way to test your people skills. Like being able to stay composed when a dr...

THANK YOU! Unfortunately, I will not be able to make the national conference in June (I will be 7 mos pregnant!). But I will do my best this summer to try to bring the district up to speed. I'm sure the administration hasn't even heard of HIPAA! Ag...

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 Europe most births do not take place at home, they tak...

Hi to all you wonderful OB/GYN nurses! I am a school RN pg with my first, I'm 21 weeks and I was thinking about hiring a doula to assist with my L & D. What sort of experiences have you had with labor assistants? What sort of thoughts run through...

This is my first year as a school nurse (after two years post-school med-surg nursing) and it is TOTALLY different than anyone thinks it is. Bergren is right, it is stressful and the pay is terrible but there is a certain level of autonomy and freed...

I put in for the $ for a peak flow meter today. The principal wanted me to write a letter explaining exactly what it was and what it was for (!). Meanwhile, with extra mouthpieces and s & h the total bill was $25 bucks!! It's not like I was as...

Well, I've never seen her cough either....to answer everyone's question! We don't budget for peak flow meters either. I'll ask mom if she would be able to provide one though. I guess I'll just go ahead and medicate her whenever she asks. Cause it s...

Welcome! I am new to school nursing as well. I love it so far! Very challenging and nothing like I expected. In fact, I just had a student come in my office b/c he had his friend's ring stuck on his finger!! I have needed advice too and everyone ha...

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 any orientation or advice as to how to do ANYTHING...

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 a school NP (not an MD) and she does PEs for us. ...

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 tends to be the 7th and 8th graders most often c/o th...

I sometimes don't think that the teachers understand the situation the nurse is in. I mean, as far as attendance goes, how many students per day could they, the teachers, possibly be asked to be responsible for, 70 or so? In an elementary school t...

I wish I had seen this posting sooner!!!! I work at a secondary/high school with just under 1,000 students in a relatively poor area. Things are pretty complicated at my school regarding attendance too! I have the glorious honor of signing in the ...

I am a brand spanking new school nurse (and I've only been an RN for 2 years to boot!). I feel blessed and so lucky that I am now one of the few, the underappreciated, the school nurses. Here's the problem: I was hired 3 weeks before school start...

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 years and doesn't even make $40,000/year! As a new ...

Hi everyone! New school nurse here with another question for all you more seasoned professionals.... My school desperately needs a new vision screening device. Has anyone used the new software that allows you to do your testing on a computer screen?...