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I've become a pro at slime removal and creating Halloween costumes out of office supplies and the random junk I hoard "just in case"... you can make a pretty sweet derby hat with a paper plate and gauze

I just choke laughed!

Colouring books and such for kids waiting to go home, little treasure chests for teeth, I hang up ALL of their artwork, little erasers for birthdays. I also have some plastic dinosaurs that I dress up for holidays, fuzzy blankets and stuffed animals for when they need a cuddle, a sweet jam called "the tiny hiney song" for a kid who needs diapering...aaaaaaand, my secret weapon, MY HUSBAND! He is a groundsman for our district and is often in my building. I like to think the teeny tinies like me, but I'm chopped liver when he's around! They often ask for "Mr. Nurse Lynn". Dude is (I verified the stats) bigger than Lou Ferrigno (and louder) and sometimes a stressed out kiddo just needs to talk about a video game for a sec, or to be tucked in with the stuffies (that he provided) and then they hold his giant pinky finger in their itty bitty hands and he walks them back to class.

One level building, right off the main office, where parents can find me...

LAWDAMERCY the medical parent...kid was actin a fool in PE, fell, superficial little scratch on his leg. Mom, who I believe is a medical biller, Dad who works in IT or something at a nursing home, and Stepdad who is an EMT bum rush my office...EMT is trying to flex and "assesses the knee for edema" and proudly proclaims that "this is all substernal"...well, sir, its a knee, soooo... this kid is a raging drama queen and the parents were no sooner out of the office door when Ii called them back in because the kid was insisting his "heart fell out and there is a bone coming out of my eyeball"...

Little Susie is behind on her vaccines because "she had a tick on her head when she was a baby and it could've injected chemicals into her system so her doctor told me to wait". I bet. Little Timmy has a 103 fever, is projectile vomiting, and sat-ing at 52 ... EMS has done a duoneb, inhalation epi, and an epi-injection, he's on L via n/c...we're sending him out...mom insists its because he didn't want to go to bed at bedtime last night,

We had a very high needs kiddo who had a specified aid. Mind you, this girl has no educational or medical background and kind of fell into the job...SHE IS INCREDIBLE! She is a very young, single mom, who I think everyone assumed would suck or tap out, especially considering a big part of her job is changing his brief, feeding, etc. She is my right hand, not only with her students, but the entire school day. She is ALWAYS there to be an extra hand and field kids coming in while I attend to her little guy. That said, the rest of our SPED and blended classroom aids are useless as far toileting, changing clothes, giving tissues, tying shoes...let's see what other gems I've had...REMEDYING A KID NOT HAVING A COSTUME FOR THE HALLOWEEN PARADE...

My first year (at that time school had about 350 kids) I saw an average of 65 or so a day. Repeat offenders, at times. I started being a Big B about the nonsense they were being sent for and the number has shifted. This year I would say I capped out at 35-40 and our student body was 264, I believe.

Same stats here... and, yet, the refuse to put a keg in the faculty break room...

From lunch this year--- Teacher (flips hair, rolls eyes): I mean...you hand out band aids for a living Me: And I provided your classroom with a case of 300 last week and yet I've had 14 of your students just this morning for that sole reason. I assume "handing out band aids" is a skill you've yet to master. Yeah. We don't get along.

Recently had to send a kiddo back with a note stating, "The fact that you feel Little Timmy's pant legs are too big does not constitute a medical emergency. Nor does the fact that Susie was wearing lipstick this morning, the broken backpack zipper from this morning, or the jacket you requested that I give to a child ALREADY WEARING A JACKET. Let's all try to use our adult judgement the rest of today, shall we?"

The upcoming school year will be my 4th. I work 8:15 to 3:45. On the teacher schedule, some of the days are in-service days. We are paid waaaaaaaaaaaay less than the teachers even if we have a BSN. A Bachelors level new teacher starts in the high 30s in our district....we start mid 20's and get an extra TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS for an advanced degree. Our insurance goes up every year, we pay the same as everyone else. We're considered civil service but in the teachers union. Our pension and whatnot is a perk. We do not have rep on the union bargaining unit and have been REPEATEDLY refused one and don't get some of the benefits the teachers do. They also get two additional breaks during the day.

I'm in NY, just finished my 3rd year in a school, full-time, only nurse in the building...salary is 28k. Rad.

Hello! That just means the meds can be given q2. If the pt doesnt request or require them q2, they can be given further apart. For example, pt gets Apap at, say, 10 am, if they needed it, it can be given again at noon. However, the pt may be comfy, and refuse it. Say, 1600 rolls around and pt feels pain, they can have the meds, because 2 or more hours has passed.