kimbernurse

I sent out letters to the staff and teachers with the info from the CDC website. I typed up a cover letter emphasizing "Our best defense against this strain of flu is being proactive and fighting fears with knowledge". In other words, wash your hands...

Everyone has those kind of days...we want you to let it all out here. Sometimes it's not easy to let things just go and most of us understand that!! Usually, once you "yell out loud" it's all better! And anyways, what's right is right and what's wron...

3 second grade girls, all from the same class, all wet their pants at exactly the same time. Couldn't contact anyone to bring new clothes for any of them. All 3 went back to class with wet pants after I cought one in the bathroom splashing her crotch...

Tis the season for allergies! One little girl came in. "You gotta call my aunt. I am ABOUT to have an allergic reaction" When asked to what, she yelled "CATERPILLARS!!!" When asked her what happens when she comes into contact with them "My nose itche...

Me too!! How funny. " My grandma told me if I ever have a loose tooth I had to go home" This was a 3rd grader!! Tisk Tisk.

I HATE ringbacks on cell phones "while your party is being reached". I usually use speaker phone when making phone calls so I can have my hands free to multi task, but some of the vulgarity of those songs is embarrasing especially with little kids in...

I make the kids that jump off the bus and come straight to the health room go to class first to "check in" with teacher and get a pass. After they do that, then they can come back and see me. I can say that most never return!

Teachers aid wanted bandaids because her "headlights" were shining. HA!

I also try to take my lunch later in the day, between 1 and 2. Noon meds are done then and the influx as slowed some. If it's approaching my lunchtime, I will shut my door and finish up with the kids I have left. If the kids do manage to track me dow...

I just need some reassurance!! I am new to school nursing, been at my school for about 4 months. The thing is I have been sick 4 times since I started and have been out a total of 6 days. Is it normal to be sick so much as a school nurse? All my oth...

I have been a school nurse now for about 4 months. When I first started, our 45 day report was done, and the immunization situation in our district was a nightmare. It really made me come close to quitting!! There were over 250 kids with inadequate/m...

I love the mass histeria that is so contagious when one student vomits/get sick. It seems that the rest of the class has sympathy pains or something (especially when little Johnny goes back to the class room to retrieve his bookbag and tells everyone...

Just Kidding.

ER nurses definitely have strong personalities! I think you'll pretty much find that in any ER and any ICU. I think we kinda have to be that way, you know, hold our ground so we won't be manipulated and taken advantage of. We have to make snap decisi...

What weirdo has 2 (who knows if there are more) user names on allnurses?? COLPN and COnursingstudent. Any one seeing a disturbing trend here??

I love LPN's. Got some pretty dang awesome ones in my ER :)

Age: 32 Location: Colorado Nursing Education: Nursing Student Additional Education Titles: EMT I Occupation: Lab Aide Gender: Male

So, you're an LPN/LVN??

It is sooo hard sometimes. We had a lady that had esophageal varicies and was spewing blood like a water fountain--we are squeezing in the prbcs as fast as we could until the surgeon could get there to band her bleeders(we are level 3, so no surgeon ...

I will continue to talk about what I have been talking about I could care less if it's on the news or in the paper. We all know the media would paint the nurses as the devil anyway and the patient as the angel. Anywho... Would you rather me get on a...

Okay, guys. Bottom line here is we have a CNA and a nursing student telling us we are a bunch of uncompassionate witches. What I don't think they are getting (and why would they, they have the combined experience of like 4 years and don't work in the...

Didn't we all know it would just be a matter of time. Someone who sees the world through rose colored glasses is going to set all of us horrible nurses with no compassion all straight. We are such horrible nurses Are you a nursing student?? I bet yo...

I am sorry that you and your mother suffer true pain. However as a NURSE, it is indeed my responsibility to judged people's pain. Not everyone is verbal or even conscious. You ever heard of nonverbal pain scales?? How do you think we evaluate babies ...

The log book off of the crash cart. Who knows? Also our ortho room seems to be a pretty popular room for browsing and shopping. I once had a family that I caught stuffing their pockets with kling and 4x4's. We do room assignments and stock our own ro...

Some nights are just sooo busy and bad, you don't have time to mess with the "trolls" (as one of our MD's would say)and just give em what the want to save yourself the strife. LOVE the policy about Dilaudid. One of our MD's wrote an order for Dilaud...