JenTheSchoolRN BSN, RN

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    What NON Nursing jobs are you "expected" to do?

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to Farawyn's topic in School

    Not me. But I deal with the older kids. They can do this themselves. I just wonder how helpful it is to let a child walk down the hall with an unbuttoned fly to get to the nurse's office...seems...
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    Do you do "formal" teaching?

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to CampNurse10's topic in School

    I am teaching a 9 week long sex education unit (with a couple of general health lessons added in) for Grades 7 and 8 for the first time this year. It runs during winter gym, once a week, which equals...
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    Summer jobs?

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to Farawyn's topic in School

    I also hang up my stethoscope and work for 2 weeks as the technical director of a children's theater camp. The rest of the summer is mine and I budget for it
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    medication on busses

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to jonie8693's topic in School

    Yep. The teachers here are pretty good, they see a kid with med that hasn't gone through me, they flag it and send the kid my way. Of course, I deal with the older kids that get themselves to and...
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    Sub Folder - med list

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to RNlove17's topic in School

    Very smart idea! I do an excel spreadsheet with three pages: one for scheduled meds, one for my diabetics, and one for my PRN prescription medications. I have name, DOB listed for subs, along with...
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    It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to CalNevaMimi's topic in School

    Huh. I don't think I'd like making that phone call to home. I, too, am curious what he used. I feel like someone would have noticed the kid with scissors in his mouth, but you never
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    Random Thoughts: School Nurses

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to Farawyn's topic in School

    I'm working today - and tomorrow! And gift bags are your friend...I haven't even finished my Christmas shopping
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    Thermometer woes...

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to ohiobobcat's topic in School

    I use the Exergen as well. It is usually dead one, sometimes a little higher for me. If I get a reading with it higher than 99.5, I re-check with my oral
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    What School Nurses REALLY Do?

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to Kittery's topic in School

    Yes, yes, yes! I referred two kids out this year that were "Johnny hit his head really hard at [insert outside sports practice here] and head hurts." Both times Johnny was sent home by me, referred...
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    Random Thoughts: School Nurses

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to Farawyn's topic in School

    Or an ice
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    High school nurses

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to RatherBHiking's topic in School

    We do. But hasn't stopped kids from bringing them in. Several kids suspended in one week in the MS because of it. But the issue is that students don't understand why they are not good - I am...
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    Brainstorm with me.......

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to loveschoolnursing's topic in School

    I agree this needs to come from your principal. You can help the principal with some things to include, but in my experience, my sending this email/letter means nothing. If it comes from someone...
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    It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to CalNevaMimi's topic in School

    Me, too. And the 23rd is a full day of school. It is going to be off the wall here next Monday and
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    High school nurses

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to RatherBHiking's topic in School

    I would in a middle school and high school. Yes, you still have a lot of frequent fliers. Yes, you still have a lot of students wanting to get out of class. Issues haven't differed too much between...
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    sick (pardon the pun) of teachers

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to mycsm's topic in School

    Or a car perhaps? How far away is the parking
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    It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to CalNevaMimi's topic in School

    Almost-Christmas-break-itis is what I call it! I am in the Northeast and going somewhere warm for my time off and I am so very, very
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    sick (pardon the pun) of teachers

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to mycsm's topic in School

    Score one for
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    Random Thoughts: School Nurses

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to Farawyn's topic in School

    What? Usually it is me telling a kid with a HR of 76 and RR of 16 that "yes, you are okay and yes, you can actually return to class." Also, cough drops are both a savior and the devil. I invested in...
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    sick (pardon the pun) of teachers

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to mycsm's topic in School

    Why is she in your office? If a student can't participate in gym, they don't stay with me. They sit in the main office and/or library just across from the main office. I'd hate dealing with that...
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    sick (pardon the pun) of teachers

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to mycsm's topic in School

    Stupid cold myth. Luckily one of the HS science teachers debunks this with me . Also, exercise. Trust me, letting the kid outside to run off some energy is just what you will wish you did do when...
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    Random Thoughts: School Nurses

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to Farawyn's topic in School

    My shirt would read: Headache? Drink some water! Dehydration is NOT your
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    What cracked me up today

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to Flare's topic in School

    Didn't crack me up, just another comment. I was out at a training for the past two day, had a sub in. One of my regular kids that comes in for his meds. Student: "Were you out training to be a real...
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    Wheelchair use in high school

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to peaceful2100's topic in School

    I just call it pairing up with a friend for the day :). But seriously, we do elevator pass, friend to help with book carrying if needed, and being first or last student out of the classroom at the end...
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    What School Nurses REALLY Do?

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to Kittery's topic in School

    1,568 for me and I only have ~480 students. And this doesn't count screenings, 504 meetings, and phones calls. And I am teaching sex ed/health starting after the break for 9 weeks... I had a friend...
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    Say what...?

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to kidzcare's topic in School

    I'm lucky. Parents must sign out kids in the main office and if they call down to me because a parent is there to pick up a "sick" kid and the child is not with me or has not been seen by me, it is...