KKEGS MSN, RN

Hello all. I am in the process of applying for a Primary Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner program and need 3 references. One must be from someone in a position to evaluate my job performance so I asked my current supervisor who isn't a nurse but doe...

That happened with my own kid a few weeks ago! Woke up not feeling well on a Monday. Kept her home and got a BinaxNOW from her school nurse. Tested her Tuesday morning. Negative. Tested her Thursday morning. Faint positive. Did a PCR saliva test Thur...

I work exclusively in our PreK program and have a supervisor (our Early Childhood Coordinator) and another boss above that one (our Director of Community Education) but really I have an incredible amount of autonomy which I love. I hate being micro m...

One of our RNs drives around to all of the schools on the last day with one of our resource officers. She collects it all and it is turned over to the police for disposal with the county. We also inform families that if they don't come pick up the me...

Here's my brutally honest 2-cents: I have worked everything from Pre-K (my current position) to elementary, middle, alternative high school and post high school transition Special Education program and there are definite pros and cons to each gr...

We do not use anything like that. No aromatherapy, no infusers, nothing. I myself have asthma and have had some bad reactions to some essential oils so I don't want any of that in my health office. One of our other district nurses has also brought up...

I work exclusively with preschoolers and we do our hearing and vision screenings during their Early Childhood screenings when we check for cognitive, speech, behavioral and emotional challenges. For the vision screening we use the LEA charts (h...

I have found myself daydreaming about leaving nursing entirely. This is my 5th year as a school nurse and I have to decide if I am going to renew my license next year or not. I already know that I don't want to go back to a hospital schedule and I ...

We follow the infectious disease manual from a local county public health department. They produce the fact sheets that we hand out to parents when there is a communicable disease in the classroom. According to the strep fact sheet, which was updat...

We aren't contact tracing at all this year but we used some COVID money from our state last year to hire 2 LPNs to help do the contact tracing. That was all they did was deal with COVID stuff so if a nurse was informed that a student or staff tested...

Yep. I just have to shake my head.

Wow. We are doing basically nothing this year. All of the decisions surrounding COVID protocols were handed over to the school board. I live in a rural, anti-mask, anti-vaccine area. ? Last year we were quarantining left and right. Masks wer...

I agree with disconnecting the call after I have warned them to stop swearing and/or yelling at me. I absolutely WILL NOT tolerate being spoken to that way.

What a great topic! I can't wait to hear what others have to say so I can get some good ideas too! Our best inservices have been: * a presentation from our local mental health nonprofit (that provides services to a lot of our students) com...

I am back for my third year as the school nurse in my district's Early Childhood Program! This year I am also the Early Childhood Screening Coordinator after our former one retired. We have decided to completely change the way we do our screenings...

I do not provide nursing care for staff. They can use my thermometer and check their own temperature. If they are injured they can provide basic first aid for themselves and then call our Workers Comp nurse line for further instructions. Obviously...

Our after school program is considered completely separate from the school since it is under the direction of our Community Education department and not the school district itself. In our program it is the parents who are responsible for educating a...

I plan to return next year. This year has definitely been the most difficult I have had as a SN but I still would rather be here than back in the hospital. No incentive. I am on the teacher contract so unless the teachers also get an incentive...

We have done this already. Our district partnered with our county PH department and administered the first dose to our staff members. I wasn't paid extra because it was done during my normal working hours. The second dose was during our Spring bre...

Doing things I never thought I would as a school nurse like contact tracing and, starting tomorrow, vaccinating our school staff! We are partnering with our county's public health department and holding our first COVID vaccine clinic tomorrow!

I have asthma and sometimes it manifests itself as an uncomfortable lump in the throat feeling. Not pain per se but just an uncomfortable sensation. Sometimes there is wheezing but not always. If all other signs were good I think you did just fine...

Ya know now that you mention it...this month I actually needed to take ibuprofen and use a heating pad because I was so crampy and I usually am not. I get achy in my hips and legs which is how I know my period is coming but this month it was pretty ...

Ya know now that you mention it...this month I actually needed to take ibuprofen and use a heating pad because I was so crampy and I usually am not. I get achy in my hips and legs which is how I know my period is coming but this month it was pretty ...

Our health department is so far behind with contact tracing that they are relying on the schools to handle that part as well as the parent education regarding isolation and quarantine for our students and staff. Otherwise the isolation or quarantine...

First dose of Moderan on 1/18. Really sore arm, like others have said, for about 36 hours but no other symptoms. I have heard shot #2 is worse so I am prepared to feel crappy for a little while.