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  1. My Encounter With A Health Room Sub

    bleemadden posted a topic in School

    I'm the health aide at 500 student K-2 school. I have a few children with ADHD, too many to count with asthma, a little one with cystic fibrosis, and a kinder diabetic. I run a very busy health room,...

  2. Lice Policies/Help Please!

    bleemadden replied to dta815's topic in School

    In my district, we send students home for live lice and give the parent the option of picking their child up for nits. I don't agree with it because it's unneccesary to keep students from learning,...

  3. My Encounter With A Health Room Sub

    bleemadden replied to bleemadden's topic in School

    Our district has an RN that works at the district and Health Aides at the schools. We have a K-2, 2 K-5s, a 3-5, and a 6-8 school. They don't require the health aide position to hold any license, but...

  4. Professional Learning Communities

    bleemadden replied to kkfkmom's topic in School

    We are going to start implicating PLC's...here's a great website with blogs, statistics, and information! AllThingsPLC — Research, education tools and blog for building a professional learning...

  5. Something for all you school nurses...

    bleemadden replied to caregiver1977's topic in School

    I had a run-in with a parent at the beginning of the school year wanting to drop off an inhaler. Although the inhaler had the prescription on the box, we can't accept any without a physician filled...

  6. Interested in School Nursing

    bleemadden replied to CLC172's topic in School

    School nursing is great! It's a little more relaxed and the schedule is so nice! My district follows really strict guidlines for sending students home, so I catch a lot of flack from parents, and...

  7. My Encounter With A Health Room Sub

    bleemadden replied to bleemadden's topic in School

    He has two teachers that I've had meetings with to teach them about his diabetes. I tried to get monitors placed in both classrooms to be on the safe side but the principal denied my request because...

  8. Reducing visits to the nurse

    bleemadden replied to alexis98's topic in School

    I have a few teachers that are HORRIBLE about sending kids...I once saw half of a teacher's class in one day!! I've seen the shoelace knots, hair ties that need to be taken out, etc. One day I had 3...

  9. let go on first day because of OSHA :(

    bleemadden replied to Ashley3H12's topic in Nursing Career

    I've worked at a nursing home and now with a school district and there was a large emphasis on OSHA at both places of employment. I was required to take a 'test' on OSHA working with the school...

  10. Speaking of Head Lice...

    bleemadden replied to DistrictNurse19's topic in School

    I work at an Elementary school in a fairly large district. We do notify parents if children in the classroom have headlice but without the mentioning of names or severity. We are only required to send...