cowgirlBSN

Hello! I am a bachelors prepared school nurse with a background in ICU and Surgery. I have been with my school for 3 years now and will start teaching CNA and Health Careers classes next year. I was wondering if anyone else taught high school and had...

What do you all do with students who come to the nurse's office ALL the time? Most of the time their reason's are not valid. I get so aggrivated sometimes when teacher's send kids in for no reason. I feel like they are dumping on me because they get ...

We're the same mustluvdogs. I have to say it's a bit underwhelming. I started at 25000 4 years ago. I had my bachelor's degree in nursing and 4 years of nursing experience before starting school nursing. I am not on teacher's salary and do not get mu...

I know this one well! I've had several angry parents at me over the years for this and that. My most recent one being this past Tuesday! She was mad I didn't call her the day before for her daughter getting hit by a basketball. Turns out, according t...

We've gotten hit pretty hard as well. I'd say getting close to 10%. We've also had stomach viruses and strep. It's been a sickly few weeks! I'm hoping we'll start tapering off soon. I've not gotten much other work done trying to combat our illnesses!

Our school is getting hit with influenza A pretty hard. Many students are being called in every day and several being sent home from school. We have recently had some cases come back as positive H1N1 from the doctor although our health dept has not c...

Thanks for your reply. Our parents are going absolutely birzirk over the flu. I am actually getting angry calls asking me what we are going to do and why haven't we done anything will all of our positive cases of flu! I'm trying to assure them that w...

I just found out this morning that our health department is providing a free vaccination clinic at our school as soon as the vaccine is available to us. I'm very excited. I think our school and parents will appriciate our efforts at prevention and vi...

Hi I'm Kimberly from Southern Illinois. I have been a school nurse for over 4 years to a community school district Pre-K through 12. I am the only nurse for around 700+ students. I absolutely love my job and the people I work with. It is EXTREMELY di...

I'm still here. But barely! As you said, this year has been crazy from the start. I sit here before school typing this because I know I will not see the computer during hours! This year has been like no other I've had! We started getting hit pretty ...

My school insist on having a no lice/no nit policy. Right now I have it written up where students are sent home immediately if found to have lice and should stay home for 24 hours of treatment. After 24 hours absence, if the lice is still present it ...

Maine, I have made several attempts to "educate" our administrators on this issue, as I had said in a previous post. I can only suggest what I think is medically best, show them evidence such as the Harvard School of Pub Health protocol, and then the...

Poor girl, sounds like you have a parent that just wants to place the blame on someone. I've had almost the exact situation happen to me last year. A parent blamed me for an asthma attack the child had in the middle of the night. (I am also neighbors...

I agree and have shown our administration a lot of documentation on head lice and whether allowing them to remain in school or not. We are a small town school and changes aren't made too often. They were dead set on this issue.

Thank you so much for replying! I'm trying to decide whether I should make it manditory for them to be out 24 hours. Like you said, I've never had anyone free from lice the next day. That's my reasoning behind making them stay home 24 hours. (Not sur...

Not that I know for sure, but my thoughts are determining whether it's allergies or pink eye is almost impossible, and doctor's probably treat for pink eye even though it may not be some times. I know there are differences between the two but with so...

Ok so acording to this statement, my having to help answer phones, answer the door buzzer, watch the office from 1100 to 1230 while the secritary is out, helping parents when the come in to find their child for pick up, and watching the "time out" ro...

I have had to do this several times as well. I think I'm pretty blunt about the issue. Most of the students I've had to talk to have been high school age so by then they know better! However, the students I've had to deal with are mainly very poor, r...

I have a student in 5th grade who repetedly urinates in his pants and then remains in it for the rest of the day. He will not tell anyone he has urinated and he will not go change his clothes on his own. Administration and I have worked with him and ...

Our school policy is that a student has up to 9 days of absences for each semester. After that 9th day they are required to have a doctors note each and every time they miss. Whether it is a hurt toe, stomachache, etc. This does aggrivate a lot of pa...

Well, my district forgot about me... Last year they took the secritaries to lunch for their appritiation day and included me as well. This year they all went out last week and I had to stay in the secritaries office and do her job while they all went...

Ours are sent home for showing up to school with pajamas on. And we've had to do this a bunch believe it or not! I would rather have died than show up to school in my pajamas when I was in school! That's not been THAT long ago either! Our school does...

Wow, I've not given ticks that much thought. We have this problem often (living in Southern Illinois). I am deathly afraid of ticks. I refuse to touch them. Some people have a snake issue, I have a tick issue. Anyway, I have the student pull it thems...

Tell me about it! That's the way it goes in a small school system I guess. Our doors have a lock system on them where you have to be buzzed in to get in. So when she's out I have to go into the main office and buzz people in, and then help them with ...

We have not heard anything about school closings in our region yet. I did hear a reliable source say they had confirmed cases of the swine flu in a town within 20 minutes of our school. We'll have to wait until later in the day to see if that is comp...