SchoolNurseTXstyle

SchoolNurseTXstyle

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  1. We've all been venting

    Just WOW!!! I agree with everyone else OVERWHELM Him with every single paper cut and tiny pencil poke you encounter!!!!! I would not meet alone with him either and I would start my own little file of...
  2. What if there had been an ACTUAL emergency?!? Ugh!

    I have a first grade son!!! I could not imagine being unreachable for even 1 minute if he needed something. Just burns my
  3. School Bus Tragedy

    Those poor sweet babies and their families. My thoughts and prayers are with everyone touched by this
  4. Why? Why? Why?

    It is not that I even mind helping with "non-nursing" stuff, it just seems like they always need something like that when I am crazy busy with "nursing stuff." I have 28 daily medication, procedures...
  5. If you feel sick the nurse will call me and you can go home

    I personally like it when the student who is told this comes straight to me after getting of bus or mommy's car. I call immediately and I am just sure they can hear a smirky tone in my
  6. Why do parents think schools are daycares?

    I have an answer that will solve everyone's problem: BIRTH CONTROL Sorry, but one must reap what that
  7. C'Mon Now!

    I have an administration that thinks they know it all!!! I have heard of at least 2 fights today and they will come get ice packs and give them out to kids with no barrier. Never crosses their mind to...
  8. Happy Thanksgiving!!

    2 hours and 33 minutes to go but who is
  9. Come on Blizzard!

    In my neck of the woods, we are still wearing
  10. Just a small vent...

    This kind of nonsense is going to push good school nurses (all nurse for that matter) right out of the
  11. THIS is what bugs me

    I always like to point out that I am exposed to sick kids all day long and rarely get sick. It is called "wash your hands people, wash them good and wash them often." Obviously, that is too highly...
  12. I am so disappointed

    This bugs me on so many levels. it is not the nurse's job to clean up others messes. It is our job to assess and intervene if needed. It seems like parents should have been notified by an...
  13. C'Mon Now!

    Why is a hot glue gun allowed ANYWHERE near a school? C'mon now! Why would you eat toothpaste on a dare? C'mon
  14. What to do ?

    I would mix more with teachers and other staff if they would let me leave my clinic for more than 2 minutes without paging me for a non-existent emergency!! Just
  15. Teachers will believe anything

    I am constantly amazed at what stories the teachers at my school will fall for. Today, a 6th grader told the PE coach he could not run laps because he was too dizzy from his brain tumor. Coach rushes...
  16. Teachers will believe anything

    Sounds like sternal rub or 2 is in
  17. Ah Mondays...(vent coming)

    You guys are disgusting!!! I love
  18. Things that make me grumpy

    I love throwing around the word evidence based practice when they start that. I love to point out when they are way off too. "No, we don't put butter and ice on a
  19. C'Mon Now!

    Kid threw up twice at home and then once all over himself in the car. Parent had him get out and come to the nurse.... C'mon
  20. Girls with Cramps

    I have the girls lay on a folded pillow under their abdomen. Often, the applied pressure seems to
  21. Resp Assessment before inhaler???

    Exactly what I
  22. First Angry Call

    You can please some of the people some of the time but not all of the people all of the time!! A few years ago I had a student come in for mild nasal congestion, no fever. I knew mom was high needs so...
  23. Post Halloween

    6 kids in clinic this morning before the first bell even
  24. Feeling burnt out

    I am so happy I am not the only one feeling this way. This is my 11th year as a school nurse, mostly at the middle school level and the drama of it all is about to do me in. Out of 1300 kids, I see...
  25. 911 Debrief

    I would have