ro2878 ADN, BSN

if you make a game out of hearing and vision testing, preK kiddos typically cooperate. If students won’t raise a hand when hearing a tone, have them kick their foot, drop a block or ball into a bucket, or give them a stuffed animal and tell the...

We will not permit SVN txs when we reopen but what are you all doing for kiddos with inhalers? Inhaler with a spacer will be safest (and does give best delivery, regardless of age) but will you contact parents and explain that spacers will be mandat...

How about the new preK teacher who comes into my somewhat busy office yesterday with her laptop and says "Not sure if you can help me with this but you have been soooo helpful - can you show me how to enter my attendance? I am not sure why my screen ...

Anybody have a “nice way” to inform staff at our back to school staff meeting next week that the nurse is no longer giving them OTC meds? In our district we have some nurses who believe it is part of their job duty to help staff since these nurses co...

Thanks all! Staff was receptive to the idea and I told them I will set up initial stock and then after that, they are on their own to replenish. I did think of the unlocked cabinet thing with regards to kiddos ever being in the lounge and not sure ...

"You really think you need ice for that?"

Another new diagnosis: suckitupitis = what the majority of the kiddos had this past Tuesday after returning from a 3 day weekend. Symptoms may include mild nasal congestion, a stomachache that does not prevent you from running all around during lun...

Trying to decide and would appreciate comments on either program. Also, any advantage to GCU's eve cohort that meets one night/wk (4hrs) over the fully online program? thanks!

Hi All, Just accepted a job at a different school district. Co-worker/friend at my old district accepted a position with this district as well. We will be at different elementary schools. She has been in her new office and said that she has a tube...

Last day of school today: Early release with dismissal at 11:20 a.m. I am rushing around trying to find 8th grade parents still on campus after their little darlings graduated this morning. Even though I send notices in the newsletters and post signs...

LOL!! Oh, it happened - cross my heart and hope to die, or stick a screwdriver in my eye!!! Besides, who could even make that up?!!

Claims was screwing something into an overhead cabinet. Even if your hand holding the screwdriver slipped, I would think you would simply scratch your other hand. How could that have such a force that the screwdriver would be impaled through your han...

Parent comes into my office yesterday. Wanted to see if I could take care of her. Hand is wrapped in a towel, which she unwraps to show me the screwdriver impaled all the way through and out of the other side of her hand! Decided to drive to school, ...

Kiddos at my school are "ice junkies" - they would shoot themselves up with ice if they could! LOL I try to discourage ice when it really is not necessary except for my littles/preK (they can do no wrong!). Now, if you are in 7th or 8th grade and yo...

Or degree of perfectionism, analness, or procrastination says the Type A girl who is supposed to be writing her paper...

5th grader walks in and states that he broke his pelvis. (Same kiddo who has eaten leaves to make himself throw up, told his teacher he was blind and could not see, smears blood all over his face when he gets a spontaneous bloody nose because it look...

I wouldn't worry too much about the "infamous list of instructors." Someone sent a list to me back when I started in February 2015 and none of the instructors I have had have been on that list. Every instructor gives the same assignments so it is rea...

CONGRATS rob!!! Nice to see the BSN after your name. I bet it feels weird to be done and to not be constantly thinking about what is due.

Yup - the DQs are long for Patho but they are not hard and it is nice that there is only one DQ due per week. I, too, found the DQs to be more enjoyable because you are using your "nursing thinking" and not spewing out the usual b.s./fluff!! I took...

Should half of the people we encounter in our classes graduate?!!! LOL How do people still not know how to correctly cite and reference? I have the CLC assignment due Sunday and still cannot believe the formatting of the references and what I have t...

They punished the student and are making her take an extra GCU course that has weekly CLC projects due!! LOL

I know it was previously asked, but did anyone every find the link to an example of a capstone paper?

Sorry for your pain. I have to finish patho and then have one more class until the dreaded capstone! Even though I have yet to experience capstone what this instructor is saying seems to contradict what everyone else on here has said - that you use ...

Working ahead and stopping now but will likely finish up a patho DQ that is due our first week back. We will be going to my parents for 10 days and I am sure that at some point while visiting them I will knock this DQ out - already did most of it but...

There was one CLC project, which was a PowerPoint. The group had to identify a nursing problem and then come up with a PICOT statement. The group had to come up with a total of six research articles (a mix of quantitative, qualitative, and systemic ...