katynurs22

I know we can all agree how much more satisfying it is to be a school nurse rather than working bedside. At times I do miss doing IV's and other skills we don't really do in school setting, but I remember the feeling of overwhelm when you're discharg...

Emergent . Place on Droplet Precautions. Test: Chest X-ray , CBC, Blood cultures, sputum testing. Immunizations UTD? Joint & muscle aches & skin rash ??? Immunocompromised? HIV testing. Pulmonary consult. Pneumonia? But skin rash: need to r...

Wow, :/ well you should be proud of what you have learned and put up with so far, i wouldn't be able to last more 3 days on a psych unit. I'll just tell you that in Med/surg you will encounter some patients that will be transferred from psych facili...

So let me just start by giving a little background about myself. I've been an RN for 3 years, and had experience as a PCA at a stepdown pediatric unit my last semester in school. Then, when I graduated, I wasn't sure if pediatrics was for me so I dec...

Thank you all! I realized I have job hopped , it was not my plan :/ (except for med/surg... most hospitals would take anyone with 6-12 months med/surg experience, so I knew i was doing it for the experience). I have found a buyer for my business , ...

What you have to consider in choosing a career, are your strengths and weaknesses. Nursing, whether bedside or not requires frequent contact with people: patients &family, doctors, managers. Consider this, if you work in a inpatient hospital sett...

Of course I didnt like cleaning poop on med/surg tele floor either, I was disgusted with C.diff , gagged a few times. I made sure not to breath deeply while cleaning. In my case , I always felt dirty after going into isolation rooms, especially C.di...

I felt the same way, I became a school nurse at 24 and it didnt help that I was 4'10. I had a parent ask me if I just applied and landed the job, and I said "Noooo I went to school for 4 years to get my Bachelor's degree in Nursing , passed a test to...

I started on a med-surg floor (nights) and I was only there for 10 months, I would get anxiety from the moment i exited the ramp to the hospital and to top that, the unit where I was hired was frequently closed due to low census , so I would get flo...

Today starts the last 5 weeks of school and by now I know which students come in for minor and unnecessary issues. I send back a FF that did not have fever with stomachache-he thinks it was his breakfast- he wanted to lay down, but assured him he cou...

What do you when a student accidentally stabs with pencil lead? I know pencil doesn't have actually have lead, its graphite and harmless. A student came in with a note from the teacher asking if i could remove it with tweezers, it was on his palm. H...

Thanks for the replies, did not know it would leave a permanent stain , never had that happen to me. I didn't think i could do much for it other than wash it with soap and water. It's my second year as a school nurse, it really bothers me when I am ...

So this is the story, on Tuesday at 0735am a 4th grader is sent to the clinic for a left pink eye where there is very small amount of yellow eye discharge, it looked like she didn't wash her face. I called home and asked mom to come and pick her up, ...

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Thanks for your reply and recommendations. Pink eye is really hard to assess to me, especially as a fairly new school nurse. I don't know what to believe sometimes. My school is a title 1;it's in a very low income neighborhood and getting the kids t...

Do any of you work for districts where RN's were cut to save money? I work at a district where only RNs with a BSN are hired and I am so lucky that our district decided not to cut any nurses for next school year. The surrounding districts are replaci...

That's crazy. It doesn't make sense, if they aren't feeling their best, their scores could reflect that.

This reminds me, on another test day, there was a student who had suspected pink eye (without eye discharge) and he was brought to the clinic about halfway thru his test. The principal was notified also and was asking what would happen if he stayed ...

Working in the hospital while pregnant is risky too. Here in the clinic like mustlovepoodles said, kids don't know personal space. And yes my office is enclosed but I keep the door open. If teachers don't let them come behind their desk, and I only s...

I agree, in my case, there's a lot of test anxiety and they are brought in for nausea, stomachache, and headaches. I had one that who complained of stomachache during the test, I did my assessment-everything WNL and allowed rest, still not feeling ...

I just found out 2 weeks ago that I'm pregnant, I have my first appointmen in 1 week but I've had 4 positive tests. Anyway I'm really worried about protecting myself from all these kiddos. I've put a DO NOT ENTER sign on a plastic yellow table linen ...

There is a kindergarten teacher that in my opinion lacks patience with her students. She has a male student in her classroom that frequently soils his underwear (possible encopresis, he has all the signs and symptoms, but I'm not the doctor , I can't...

1.elementary (k-5) 2.almost 700 students- we also have 1 life skills class and 2 units for autism (behavioral units) 3. On a slow day 15-18 per day, most days 22, my busiest so far was 42 . 4. no assistant 5. Most common complaints: HA, Stomachache,...

Update on what happened: We had a meeting with mom (principal, asst principal, classroom teacher and I). It went well, mom was cooperative, principals expressed their concern about academic progress and how she is falling behind. Teacher said she cou...

I'm new to this school and I was warned about this mother. She has a student who has permission to carry inhaler with her(5th grader), but last week, the student came in to clinic because she was in PE and the PE teacher sent her to the clinic. Her c...