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    Friday

    NutmeggeRN replied to Bulldogs's topic in School

    We have 2 PD days...were supposed to be here but after 6+ cases last week, he gave staff the option to remote in. Very good move on a mental health basis. My staff is strung out. Im here! I'm hiding...
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    covid liaison compensation?

    NutmeggeRN replied to Phillynurse123's topic in School

    If only I belonged to the union....they don't want
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    Parents STILL Sending Sick Kids to School

    NutmeggeRN replied to lifelearningrn's topic in School

    Best one yet. A kid in Q posting pics from a travel destination...still to be determined if the pics are current or wishful thinking...I'm going with they are there for the
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    contact tracing

    NutmeggeRN replied to ruralseok's topic in School

    We are doing it all...good
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    Athletics = Madness

    NutmeggeRN replied to guest464345's topic in School

    Trying to find a positive here...they believe corona
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    Sick Student Policy

    NutmeggeRN replied to AllieEmerson's topic in School

    And therein lies the bigger issue...we just don't
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    Nursing fields: What has been your favorite?

    NutmeggeRN replied to DyerRN's topic in General Nursing

    My home health (5 years) was what sealed the deal for school nursing. Lots of independence and autonomy. I did LTC 2 years as DNS in a very small ECF and per diem in ICF/AL for 11 years. Right place,...
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    Nursing fields: What has been your favorite?

    NutmeggeRN replied to DyerRN's topic in General Nursing

    I have done med-surg, LTC, office (multispecialty group practice and family practice, home health...and I've been in school nursing for 27 years!! Absolutely love my job in a small rural
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    Introduction

    NutmeggeRN replied to Schoolnursejen1970's topic in School

    Woo hoo!! Welcome and jump right
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    Parents STILL Sending Sick Kids to School

    NutmeggeRN replied to lifelearningrn's topic in School

    It sure does...but we, in the schools, are doing our level best to stay here. We have guidelines set up by people way higher up the food chain than us. We don't get to pick and choose which public...
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    Who feels like Stretch Armstrong?

    NutmeggeRN replied to tining's topic in School

    I do not think there was any ill intent (I hope). S/he does take several meds and could well have been distracted, hence the ADHD dx needing the
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    Who feels like Stretch Armstrong?

    NutmeggeRN replied to tining's topic in School

    OYE YES! Today, in the middle of all the usual beginning of the day chaos, a parent calls to advise their kiddo took an extra dose of m-phenidate. WIll I go check? Sure, by the time I do, they are...
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    Missouri School Nurses - BinaxNOW Rapid Testing

    NutmeggeRN replied to Cattz's topic in School

    Just a thought, if you have standing orders, can you do what we do in LTC and use a telephone order form? Just send a batch everyday to
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    Did I make the wrong call?

    NutmeggeRN replied to FolksBtrippin's topic in General Nursing

    Also is there an ekit? A backup of many of the common meds? We have a narc kit (real pain to get meds from) and another mixed use kit. Gah...you cannot give what you do not have. I would have called...
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    staff rights

    NutmeggeRN replied to Looking_ahead's topic in School

    K...imma be snarky for a minute They apparently have the right to know all the deets on any given child, regardless of whether they would have any contact with them... They have the right...
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    New grad nurse—school board nurse opportunity

    NutmeggeRN replied to Ann1e86's topic in General Nursing

    You are one of the ones who has done it Very
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    New grad nurse—school board nurse opportunity

    NutmeggeRN replied to Ann1e86's topic in General Nursing

    There are nurses who go directly into school nursing, and do it well. But I think they are few and far between. It sounds like this job would have you overseeing other experienced nurses, which can...
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    Holiday Travel and Mandatory Quarantining?

    NutmeggeRN replied to Queen of Icepacks's topic in School

    This ^^^^ Spent my milestone bday at home yesterday....nowhere to go, don't want to eat outside in 35 degree wet weather...Seriously, think I'll be alone for Thanksgiving as my siblings are having...
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    C'Mon Now!

    NutmeggeRN replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    Glad I made you
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    C'Mon Now!

    NutmeggeRN replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    "Your" yogurt isn't finger licking good? For
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    Frequent Flyers

    NutmeggeRN replied to Lbarba84's topic in School

    OP, you are new and asking ??s. Perfectly reasonable! Another poster form another discipline chimed in with (IMHO) a rather broad and sweeping criticism of the subject at hand. Clearly framed by her...
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    2020 small achievements

    NutmeggeRN replied to guest464345's topic in School

    Yay!!
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    Second interview, with principal?

    NutmeggeRN replied to schoolnursenewbie's topic in School

    One of
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    Rapid testing in schools- any here in MA?

    NutmeggeRN replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    And if it is negative, what about the possibility of Strep, the flu and mono??? We cannot do zip for those. So they say no Covid whohoo....and then get really sick when something else is missed or not...
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    Athletics = Madness

    NutmeggeRN replied to guest464345's topic in School

    We are in a hockey