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Do any of you chart your clinic visits in powerschool? They have told us we are going to start but that was years ago and they never began it. I think it was a privacy, HIPPA, FERPA issue but not sure. Anyone else use it? Like it? Dislike it?

Do any of you use a tympanometer? Is it helpful? I usually just use otoscope but had someone ask me recently if I had one and I was considering purchasing one? Opinions?

I have a concealed carry permit. I work at a school so there are no firearms allowed on the property. I do think someone in the school should be able to carry since we don't have a SRO all the time. An administrator or someone. We have door locks and video cameras and other security measures but if someone wants in they will find a way to get in.

Southwest Virginia, 25,000.

I agree with Flare. I worked in adult ICU as well, with a couple of stints in peds when working float pool. I worked as a substitute nurse on occasion when I wasn't working at the hospital and that was great as far as giving me some insight and experience into what is involved. Being a sub for the school system that you are interested in working for is a huge plus when a full time job comes open as well. Good luck!

I have a child whose mother sent me an email and spoke with me because she said her child is sick with a sore throat and cold symptoms. He misses alot of school and many times parents send them to school so they can be counted present and then check them out early. She said his normal temp is 96.7 so a temp of 98.7 for him is like a temp of 100.7. She wanted him to come all day long and have his temp checked and for me to call her every time he came in. Finally his temp did reach 98.7 and so she wanted to come and pick him up. He acted and seemed fine. I realize not everyone runs a solid 98.6 as their normal and temps fluctuate at different times of day and are normally lower in the mornings. But can you really compare a temp of 98.7 to 100.7? Anyone else had experience with this? And do you think there is any truth to this?

I have been a med surg floor nurse, in charge with 8 patients and no secretary, worked ER, CCU, SICU, MICU, CVICU, hospice, pediatrics, med-psych and am now a school nurse. I was not one of the hateful, know it all ICU nurses because I remember how it felt to take a patient who was crashing to the ICU only to have the ICU nurse try to belittle me when I gave report to them. So that made me a kinder ICU nurse when patients came to me crashing. I know that I had been guilty of thinking that being a school nurse was just bandaids and ice and I thought I would lose my IV skills, ability to calculate critical drips, help with intensive procedures and the like. However, I developed a new set of skills when I became a school nurse. I love it and the hours and the schedule are wonderful. I have to make decisions and assessments on my own, without a colleague or a doctor to back me up and give me a second opinion. I care for children in wheelchairs, have cared for many children while they had a seizure, diabetics with insulin pumps, tube feedings, urinary catheterizations, and recently had a child who developed pneumo-mediastinum from blowing on his band instrument and ended up in PICU. I deal with parents, the doctors, the health dept, social services, and teachers. There are so many children who do not get proper or any care at home and this is the only time they see anyone in the health care field despite our best efforts to get parents to take them for physicals, etc. I am glad I can help them in this way and try to help educate their parents as well in their care. We are all "Real Nurses" no matter what specialty, I have always thought that many nurses don't support each other as they should and I hope this will change in the future.