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    Your FAVORITE job

    Totally agree!!! Hardest job I have ever
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    ROLL CALL!!! School Nurses 2017/2018

    Present and accounted for!!! Beginning of year 24 Yikes!!!! Still excited to be doing what I love! Already and bunch of hours with preseason and Immunization upload... Welcome Back back
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    Mom suing nurse after suffocation accident

    Usually
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    Is this thing still on?

    Best of luck to you!! And please :) Aalways try to staff by acuity and not
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    Is this thing still on?

    Time to get back into the swing of AN. Missing my school nursing
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    EMTs Ever Look at You Like You're Dumb?

    With all due respect (and I have an enormous amount of respect for ED nurses) Some times we are the ONLY medical person in a building or on a campus. There may be anywhere from 500 to 1500 kids (and...
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    Who is still hanging around??

    oh dear God...I think I am going to poke out my eyeballs. That. Is.
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    I got the job!

    Yay for you!!!
  9. The ombudsman
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    New MSN Degree

    Are you a member of y our state nurses association? That might open up some
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    Told to fake vital signs

    Are you kidding?? Fake it and drop someones BP when they take a med that has parameters that hold if Systolic is less then 100 or pulse is less than
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    Told to fake vital signs

    Call the Ombudsman office and high tail it out of
  13. I didn't do an APRN program but did do my Masters at a brick and mortar school. Had a 2.8 (I think) undergrad, applied and was put on probation for the first class. Aced it and got 8/9 A's and 1
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    Advice about school nursing

    Exactly what Flare said! I LOOOOOOVE my HS kids, most days!!!! Been here 23 years,. Lucky to be well compensated where I am but that is not always the
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    end of year sending meds home

    As a school nurse, who knows you signed the form at the begining of the year stating you read and understand the school handbook policies, I expect that you will pick it up. The potential for it to...
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    Such a DUMB thing to get so upset about!! (rant)

    Narcs are only counted 1 x weekly? I have no idea how Accudose
  17. Best to your daughter, there are strides being made everyday in pedi
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    "just" a school nurse rant

    First, I am sorry that your family member is in hospice...((hugs)) Second, Yowsa, your cousin is clearly less than tactful...that hurts. Emotions certainly run high at times like this, I hope you get...
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    Who is still hanging around??

    Good
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    Narcan for School Nurses?

    In New Hampshire, the NHSNA drafted a position statement https://nhsna.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/FINAL%20Draft%20Naloxone%20Use%20in%20the%20School%20Setting%20Committee%20work%20(1).pdf...
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    Who is still hanging around??

    Me
  22. I may be in the wrong forum but am looking for feedback. I am a school nurse and am struggling with a fairly new response to requests for verification of an absence due to illness from a parent....
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    Parent Phone Calls for Medical note

    Yup...I do believe that is the case. Frustrating to say the least. I have worked in a family practice setting so I completely get it. But I think it is worse now than ever before, the lengths some...
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    Too much facebook

    The blocker is your friend, I use it all the
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    Narcan for School Nurses?

    Ok I think I have end of the yearitis...I responded to this post several times and when I opened up AN just now, the title of the post just made me laugh. Narcan for School Nurses?? Taken...