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Oddly, I had a child that was doing this. I even sent her to the hospital once, as she managed to be coughing to the point of vomiting. She wasn't helped by the inhaler. I am studying to be certified as an asthma educator, and found literature tha...

If they will wash their hands, it is not airborne illness. They are NOT "turbocontagious". Not everyone even requires treatment.

Pinkeye has several forms, and it has to spread by hand contact. Sending the child back to class, if they wash their hands is not an issue. Also, many schools do not exclude for conjunctivitis. It is usually viral, and self limiting. It is most of...

Hate to tell you, but this is misinformation. Lice don't JUMP. They don't have the proper jointing of their legs to do that. Parents get this sort of misinformation, and the hysteria perpetuates. I don't know what you may have seen on that woman'...

As it appears that there will be no cooperation from this mother, for whatever reason, you need to consider protecting the child, AND yourself. If I were to see seizures that did not appear to be stopping after a 5 minute period, 911 would be calle...

Take things one thing at a time, there will be lots of time for those decisions after you complete nursing school. Maybe you won't even want to be a nurse at all! Not everyone that begins nursing school in the first place concludes that nursing is ...

I am in NY, but I had the program for 5 years. I abandoned it last year, as I was having difficulty getting teachers to buy into the program enough to give the rinse as instructed. They just did NOT do it!! It got to be such a problem that the r...

Save the "partial birth" abortion rhetoric- I'd like to see those that believe in it find JUST ONE REPUTABLE INSTANCE of it being performed. It is "prolife" propaganda. Most late term abortions are done for WANTED pregnancies. Those that are doome...

If you were a desperate woman that has no way to love or nurture this child, no means to support it, no family to help support YOU, you would make that decision "in advance". Making it illegal won't make it go away. I grew up just before Roe vs Wad...

It is too bad that our health care system was set up to be very profitable for insurance companies, with costs rising faster than any other commodity. Many people, even if they work hard, work several jobs, and are obtaining as much education as the...

I am sure that is the reason that millions of Americans without health care coverage would want it; so they can go to the ER to have the gum removed from their hair. Do you think that insured people don't ever abuse the health care system? I...

Perhaps only COMPASSIONATE people agree that the fight against universal health care is an uncaring, selfish thing.

Maybe, with some luck, you won't find yourself in the situation of millions of Americans that didn't expect to find themselves without insurance, and with nowhere to turn but the ER for care.

And, with any luck, you won't end up one of the millions of uninsured Americans that have nowhere to turn but the ER for any care at all.

I am a little confused about this post. Is there an RN that oversees the LPN that replaced you? I am in NY as well. I believe that a district is NOT mandated to have a nurse of any kind. However, if there IS a school nurse, it must be an RN. I t...

It is pretty ridiculous to have "no nit" policies in this day and age. Nits don't go from head to head. They also may never hatch. If they are old, the child is going home for no good reason, and missing educational opportunity. Sad that parents ...

Every Monday head check? That alone is pretty humiliating for any child that MAY be found to have any evidence of lice. That is an outrageous misuse of time and resources for an educational facility, in my opinion. Lice are frequently misdiagnosed...

I think it was a pretty crummy thing to accuse the nurse of; "planting" the kids inhaler in the child's backpack. What evidence to you have for that?

When dealing with a 1st grade student, we do NOT let them carry, it IS kept in my office. If an asthmatic child is complaining of respiratory symptoms, they would be escorted down to my office by a teacher or another student. If doing that poorly,...

It is NOT their responsibility to retire on your timetable. Don't forget, they worked through pretty lean times in nursing, as well. Pay for the RN has been historically very LOW, until the fairly recent past! You don't know what their retirements...

Aww... Come on. Since when do all Sunday School teachers teach of heaven in the same way? I think each of us has our own perceptions what it would be like.

One thing that I noticed when asking students whether or not they used the bathroom, they might say "I peed". In a classroom situation, a teacher is not going to ask a student "did you poop?" as I might ask them. If a teacher would ask that quest...

I think that this nurse is in violation of being HUMAN. What dreadful sort of person would do this, anyway? Whether it is in violation of legal codes, etc, is not the issue here. Should someone like this really be working in a sensitive area, if w...

Personally, I believe that nursing school is far more difficult to get through than it was when I graduated in the mid-70's. There is SO MUCH MORE TO KNOW! I have had 35 + years to absorb the information that students now have to know before they ...

This is a legitimate complaint that many facility employees have. The person that takes on more than they can handle and feels that they have the right to make it everyone elses problem is just plain self absorbed. The rest of the staff have lives/...