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  1. Pet Peeve Friday

    YES!!!! I just had this conversation with a parent yesterday!! We were even looking at the volleyball pics from 2000, 2004. They had the spandex type shorts, but were a lot
  2. Pet Peeve Friday

    Yes!!!! I will not send you home to go poop! You are about to go into the real world and can't leave your job to go home. What's bad is I had a 3rd-4th grader have this issue. Mom said he went to...
  3. Does your district allow narcotics in the clinic?

    We will, but try to talk parents out of it due to side effects. Have had one student take Tylenol 3 one time and was fine, but took it a 2nd time and it made her really sleepy. So when she came in...
  4. Pet Peeve Friday

    Boys with earrings, non-shaven and baseball caps. All in the handbook as a no-no, but still have to send them to the AP's office to shave at 1 pm because teachers don't send them at the beginning of...
  5. Pet Peeve Friday

    Took me forever to make a password. Crazy. I have always had to write down my username and password for this site. You should have seen the white out on my card I have it on. It was like a 1/4" thick...
  6. Pet Peeve Friday

    Oh, my yes!!!! Then to add to that the other numbers on their forms do not work or they are fighting with each other so you can't call
  7. Vision rescreen question- help!

    I have them even on a high school level fail the first time. Especially if some on else is with in ear shot or watching. Will re-screen and they pass with flying
  8. Drama Momma

    Update: Little Darling has a deeply bruised knee cap. No fracture. Mom to see how she does the rest of the week and then take her to a specialist. Got Little Darling an elevator pass for about a
  9. Drama Momma

    Dad is taking student to Dr. today. The big deal, I think, was the absence. She would have been counted all day at school if she stayed passed 9 am and then left for a dr. appt. Since she was out at...
  10. Just a Rant

    On the high school level, it's "my friend says my foreheads
  11. Workman's comp

    On my campus we the nurses are responsible for the paper work for workman's comp. No biggie. They fill it out we forward it to the administration office. Done. Today, we had an altercation in an...
  12. Workman's comp

    They were calling for our SRO who was out in another building. Apparently these girls were worse than the boys we've had fighting
  13. Workman's comp

    I am on a high school campus. It was between 2 girls. Everyone keeps saying that they just would not stop and it was tough breaking them up. One was still aggravated after about 10 minute cool down...
  14. High school nurses

    I love my high school kids. I have in between 700-800 students and see 25-30 students a day. I have 2 medication kiddos and 2 diabetics. In the past, I have seen up to 60 in a day. I like the fact...
  15. And on a personal note

    My Daughter's teachers are working with her and I have talked with the principal. We went to the dr today and he has changed her meds up a little. He did mention the botox, but we are not at that...
  16. And on a personal note

    I hate Migraines!!! I post awhile back about my daughter get the Daith piercing and how it helped her migraines. Well, she has missed 5 days in the last two weeks because of migraines. Even with a 504...
  17. And on a personal note

    Yes we have some things in place. Just when you have missed 8 day in 2 wks its tough. I will get with her counselor and see what can be accommodated further. Her teachers are being great, but this...
  18. Sweet, Honey

    I use pet names all the time with my student's. No one has ever said anything about it. I do refrain from talking to adults that way. I have caught myself a few times calling a few teachers by a pet...
  19. And on a personal note

    There are plenty of people who can do them, but I am very picky. I looked into the piercing for months before I went and had it done. I went to one tattoo shop that did them and did not have a good...
  20. Spin off- what's been your biggest emergency as a school nurse

    Had to call EMS just the other day (Testing day) for an unknown issue. It resembled a panic attack, but from the history from mom it was something else. I do believe they sent me the reserve team. You...
  21. C'Mon Now!

    Little Darling comes in today with her right arm in a bandage. States she burned herself with hot ramen noodles last night and went to the ER. Shows me the ER release with no restrictions and a note...
  22. Excessive visits

    I had one student that was in my office a total of 223 times in 2 years. We did it all. Called GM (who didn't know what to do and was taking her to the dr. all the time), teachers call me before they...
  23. That's So Fetch! (Pink Wednesdays)

    I got my pink on!!!!!! We have college days on Wednesdays, so I am normally in t-shirts and jeans, but today I can proudly say I am truly part of the
  24. STAAR Testing Anxeity

    Another issue about this time is the restrooms. Both boys and girls restrooms have to have a monitor. Only one student in the restroom at a time and teachers are not to go into them either (depending...
  25. Licegate 2017

    We had a nurse be accused of planting lice on one little darling. LD would go into her office and while taking a temp or applying a bandage, she would notice nits or live bugs. Mom would call/come...