KKEGS

KKEGS MSN, RN

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  1. Cough drops

    KKEGS replied to tgray152001's topic in School

    We have to have a doctor's order for EVERYTHING we give a child, including cough

  2. Diabetic student not wanting to drink water

    KKEGS replied to Amethya's topic in School

    How old is this student? Would some type of reward system work? It's not the same situation but I had a student last year, a 3rd grader, who was quite the chatterbox and she came to me each...

  3. How many years experience for NICU travel nursing?

    KKEGS replied to tinybbynurse's topic in Travel

    I worked not quite 3 years in a Level III NICU and left 1 year and 4 months ago to work as a school nurse. My hospital would not let me stay on as a casual nurse but they told me if I was interested...

  4. Struggling with poor pay and a love for School Nursing

    KKEGS replied to ANL6822's topic in School

    Our district does pay for us to go to professional conferences in the same way they pay for teachers to go to professional conferences. I have the same contract that a teacher does so I am paid what...

  5. Influenza-like illness

    KKEGS replied to ruby_jane's topic in School

    Your DOH should have a list of reportable illnesses on it's website somewhere. Our state's DOH has a whole separate School Health section of it's website where we get a lot of our information

  6. Average salary

    KKEGS replied to RN100%'s topic in School

    I have the same contract that the teachers have so I get paid what a teacher gets paid. I had 3 years of experience as a pediatric RN (home care and NICU) when I started in the schools and they...

  7. Lice Policies

    KKEGS replied to BrisketRN's topic in School

    We exclude for live bugs but not for nits. We do not require any proof of treatment and we certainly don't require our students to be "cleared" by a lice treatment center or doctor. What a waste of...

  8. Influenza-like illness

    KKEGS replied to ruby_jane's topic in School

    We notify our county public health nurses if we see stuff like this because they want to know. They also keep us updated on what they are seeing in the whole county like the norovirus outbreak in...

  9. Influenza-like illness

    KKEGS replied to ruby_jane's topic in School

    Our threshold is 5% of the school, 5% in one grade level or 3 in one classroom. One of our schools filed a report with our state DoH yesterday. We had 28 students out with ILI and 4 in 1 single...

  10. Illness and School Concerts

    KKEGS replied to denstar's topic in School

    This is a tricky area but our policy in my last district was if you were too sick to be in school you were to sick to do extracurricular activities. Mostly we enforced it when it came to our kids who...

  11. Workaholics - Trouble Delegating

    KKEGS replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    Although I didn't realize it at the time I was probably a workaholic when I worked NICU. I entered NICU as a new grad and worked all. the. time. because I wanted to learn and see as much as I...

  12. My new best friend <sarcasm>

    KKEGS posted a topic in School

    Oh I really don't like it when a "problem" family decides I'm their new best

  13. Christmas break, when do you start yours?

    KKEGS replied to mag426's topic in School

    Last day with student's is December 21. I work on December 22 because it's a Professional Development day. Staff returns January 2 (another PD day) and students return the 3rd. I use my break to...

  14. Lovable Parents

    KKEGS replied to cooties_are_real's topic in School

    I had to call a parent to bring in a new pair of shoes for a 5th grader who, along with a large group of other students, decided it would be a fantastic idea to play in the large rain puddle that had...

  15. school health office records

    KKEGS replied to tdean13's topic in School

    Our state lets the school district decide and our district keeps them for 7

  16. School Nurse Cert with DOE

    KKEGS replied to NurseMrn's topic in School

    I don't have a certification but I do have a separate license with the Department of Education. It allows me to use the title Licensed School Nurse. In order to get this license I paid about $100...

  17. Lovable Parents

    KKEGS replied to cooties_are_real's topic in School

    The great parents are what gets me through the tough ones. We had a first grader break his nose in gym class on Monday. He came back to school today. Mom couldn't have been nicer or more laid back...

  18. bathroom dilemma

    KKEGS replied to lvnforschool's topic in School

    True. Usually they thank me profusely for taking the time to call them to let them know something no matter how

  19. bathroom dilemma

    KKEGS replied to lvnforschool's topic in School

    True. Usually they thank me profusely for taking the time to call them to let them know something no matter how

  20. bathroom dilemma

    KKEGS replied to lvnforschool's topic in School

    I would mention the increased bathroom breaks to the parents. It gets a conversation started. Could be a UTI but could be something else too that needs to be

  21. "Professional Goals"- Ugh

    KKEGS replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    Yep I have to set "goals" also. Myself and the 2 other district RNs set them together and we pick a different topic or area of school nursing to research, update our documentation and training...

  22. Employee Health?

    KKEGS replied to chasinRT's topic in School

    Nope. We provide first aid and a phone number to a Worker's Comp Nurse Line that takes care of the

  23. Snow Day!

    KKEGS replied to Eleven011's topic in School

    I grew up in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and if a single flake was ever sighted the whole darn city shut down and parents rushed to school to pick up their kids! Now that I live in the great white...

  24. Snow Day!

    KKEGS replied to Eleven011's topic in School

    I'm in Minnesota and we started the day with a temperature of around 50 BUT we are supposed to drop 30 degrees by tonight and get 1 to 2 inches. Nowhere near enough to cancel school and my kids are...

  25. TGIF! How was your week?

    KKEGS posted a topic in School

    Here was mine...