lovepink

I am a nurse at an elementary school, we have a few diabetics. Every place I have worked, we have wasted insulin after it had been open for 28 days. I had a parent tell me today that their endocrine clinic told them they could use the pen until the ...

I recently develope HUGE blisters on the balls of my feet. I couldn't walk, it was AWFUL!! Of course I knew how i got them... from wearing four inch wooden soled heels for a very long evening out... with lots and lots of walking involved... Not sm...

We have a teacher who is due in a few weeks. I was putting in the vaccination records and of course she has many in her class who just received the MMR vaccine. (She teaches a young grade) Anyway my concern is whether or not she can be around the ...

I have had the WORST time with parents today! It is SOOO frustrating! I get yelled at by one mom in front of the office this morning because I haven't had time to drop everything I am doing and IMMEDIATELY do a vision screen on her daughter.... who...

You said RN's.. as an LVN (all of us in the district) is that something I need to have? I was wondering about that after reading some of the posts, but have been told no. Maybe because we are LVNs lol The diabetics have a care plan provided by their ...

Happy Nurse's Day!!! Today was nice!! I was pleasantly surprised :) I got lots of "we appreciate you" emails and a lot of the teachers wrote Happy Nurse's Day on all the nurse passes lol. My principal and ast principal took me out to lunch, which wa...

lol I LOVE it!!! I wish i could say that!!

Do yall pull teeth in your office? I have been saying no all year because I don't feel comfortable (someone elses child) and I am unsure if that would be a liability to me. I know it sounds silly, but I keep thinking what if the tooth isn't quite r...

lol thanks guys!!! I have told teachers before that i was unable to becasue it was beyond my scope of practice and they looked at me like I was speaking another language lol Yay!!! It's is Friday afternoon! I thought it would never get here!! :red...

Thanks so much!! I feel better that I am not the only one! The teachers look at me like i am crazy because "the last nurse did it". So I just wanted to see if it was just me lol On another note its hilarious that the teachers would tlak about the ...

I actually emailed NASN about a month or so ago and they told me that I could join as an LVN! She said to fill out the form and put my LVN license number in the RN license number spot. I haven't done it yet but I plan on it!!

Ok... Something I hadnt thought too much about before, as it seems pretty obvious. BUT... now I have SOOO many questions!! What do yall do when there is a fire drill? Do you just leave the school with whatever kids you have? Or do you stay in and...

Thank you so much! If you dont mind me asking... whats in your go-bag? You're right, I hadnt really thought abou thte fact that if we were out there long, it would be because of a fire and there would be probably be paramedics there... I must be r...

Thanks everyone for your thoughts. I did talk to my supervisor and she said we had to follow the 28 day rule unless their doctor was willing to write a note stating he could use it longer. The family decided to just bring in a new pen... and give m...

Thanks so much for your response! I enjoyed the article, lots of good info!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,564501,00.html just a quick recap for those that dont want to read the article... a 4 month old weighs in at 17#'s and his parents insurance company denies him coverage because of him being obese!! He was almost 9...

Haha thats true, Fox news would hate to think anything they posted would promote "obamacare". I think its ridiculous that for any reason they would deny coverage to a baby. I too would go running to the media in hopes that the company would realize...

Hi yall!! I just got a call today that I got a job as a school nurse!! i am SOOO excited!!! I have always wanted to do this and as an LVN my options were limited... but luckily I found a school district that happened to need a nurse and... I got the ...

:heartbeat:heartbeat:heartbeat hi! i'm lovepink and this is my first year as a school nurse!! i am at an elementary school and i love it... almost all the time lol. the teachers can be a little frustrating, as can the parents, but the kids.... i l...

So... we are begining to see a problem with kids giving themselves eraser burns. I am speaking with the grade level that has this most rampantly about it this afternoon and will be talking about the seriousness of this as well as the risk for infect...

Hey yall!!! I am SO excited!!! :heartbeat tmw I am going to set up my office at school!! :heartbeat I do have a question... I know that we don't give any OTC's w/o a dr's order but what about topical ointments like TAO? If a kid skins his knee would...

I went there and it says its like 260/year with coverage of $100,000 / $300,000. Is this normal?

awww I loved this story... made me remember how much I loved my dementia pts. i laughed throughout the whole thing... until the end that is, my heart broke. I can only imagine how awful that day must have been btw great writing skills!! so descrip...

I would love to say I would do it... I am totally for it and I envy the ones that have done it!! I am just one of those nurses that would feel bad for the pts... I know that we have to take care of ourselves before we can care for our pts but I gue...

I havent seen her, this just happened :) but when I gave report I made sure to let the oncoming nurse know that the pt had a Left AKA... I didnt tell any of the other nurses bc I didnt want to embarrass her.... lol... so its nice to finally be able ...