JenTheSchoolRN BSN, RN

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    School hasn't even started yet...

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to Supernrse01's topic in School

    My normal day has been seeing 1-4 kids before the first bell rings at 8. My office opens at 7:30 and we let students into the building at 7. When I usually arrive between 7 and 7:15, we have anywhere...
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    ? about diabetic supplies in office

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to Nurse2Kids's topic in School

    Students provide their own to use, but I also have back-up glucometer with test strips and extra lancets (lancets are also great to get splinters out!), urine ketone kit, and glucose tabs. I rarely...
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    Nursing Interventions

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to ABRN2012's topic in School

    10-15 rest for every headache? I wish I had the space to let that many kids stay that long in my office :). Water, sometimes cold pack for head. I can give out basic OTC meds, but for most headaches...
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    Go to the nurse.

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to imaneedmycoffeefirst89's topic in School

    Oh, I'm serious. It is an old superstition and actually pretty rare thing. Is Getting Pooped on by a Bird Really Good
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    Go to the nurse.

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to imaneedmycoffeefirst89's topic in School

    That's good
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    Have you ever just had to step aside?

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to KeeperOfTheIceRN's topic in School

    I think you handled that like a pro! I have sometimes been asked to help in a situation like this and sometimes I have to say - this is a bad idea, this student needs that familiar connection of xyz...
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    College campus RNs?

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to maggiesulfate's topic in School

    Yep, I'd say is more like working in an acute care/doctor's office setting. A few I know in this role work 12 hour shifts (7-7 or the like) 4 days a week. But of the ones I know, most are working as...
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    Non compliant Diabetic Students

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to NurseVal93's topic in School

    This. It the issue is they manage on their own and hate the attention paid to them for having to go to the nurse's office to check, then work with it. None of my diabetics in HS come to me unless...
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    Go to the nurse.

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to imaneedmycoffeefirst89's topic in School

    YES and YES. I am now the keeper of the uniform closet. And all of the non compliant uniform students are sent to me. And if everyone goes through the uniform closet, they never fold anything, and I...
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    As insurance costs soar, more parents rely on school nurses for children's health care

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in School

    Yep. Not surprising. I know I am the main medical care for several students at my school. I am in an urban area. My health office visits have increased nearly 50% in the time since I started at my...
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    Massachusetts RNs

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    Ugh, don't tell me this - I'm up for renewal this summer. Please make this online,
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    High School Nurse

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to cjl_RN's topic in School

    Sex education. And a lot of it. Know your state guidelines for sexual health (can you document it, can you not?), referrals, need to/not to involve parents, places students can get tested for STIs....
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    Question about students who self-carry medications for Anaphylaxis

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to GetBackToClassRN's topic in School

    At my school, they only carry the Epi at school. If they need the benadryl, they see me. It allows me to assess. (Benadryl may travel depending on field trip, etc.) My standing order for Epi/benadryl...
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    Is It Summer Yet?!

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to Avill's topic in School

    4 weeks and East Coast...where is this camp? I can never work camps because my charter school has an extended school year. And I like my summer. Plus, my husband and I are closing on a condo (we are...
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    C'Mon Now!

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    Student: I was sent here by the gym teacher. I'm taking a new medicine that the doctor told me would make me sleepy. Me: Okay. What is it? Student: Loratadine. Me: That is allergy medication. Student:...
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    Angry Teachers

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to MrsNurse08's topic in School

    THIS. And I got proof this year! The seniors in my school that take AP Environmental Science did a lab where they basically placed crude petri dishes in several places around the school. Guess whose...
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    Lice... why lice?

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to Amethya's topic in School

    Me too! The chart is the
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    Toxicity worries

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to Keeperofthebandaids's topic in School

    I have also never met a middle or high school (or elementary for that matter) child that has eaten or put a tide pod in their mouth as part of this challenge. They all think is a very stupid thing to...
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    Ongoing lice problem

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to MrsK_Nurse's topic in School

    This is why I am very glad I got my school on board with no-exclusion for live lice, nits, etc. I won the battle with this after a student kept coming to school with live lice and sent home. Student...
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    Why parents! Why?!!

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to MrsNurse08's topic in School

    Get your doctor to write out the diagnosis and I'd be okay with this - this fever has a suspected diagnosis and isn't the start of a contagion spreading around school. I have a student with this...
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    Retired Registered School Nurse ... hero

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to sirI's topic in School

    I think our skill might be of more use because we are nurses that don't have access to most hospital equipment and have to think on our feet - which is basically what one can do on an airplane. I was...
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    I need your help ASAP please

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to Nurse2Kids's topic in School

    This. I am not the first nurse at my school, but am the first full time nurse they hired. I've built many things from the ground up. Sure, it can be frustrating at times, but also seriously...
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    puberty talk!

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to ceelopez12's topic in School

    Me too! Although I teach sex education which comes after puberty in grades 7,8, and 10 in my school. But I do a ton of puberty and anatomy review. I love it, but I've been told I'm weird :). I use a...
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    AAAAAGGHHH!

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to SaltineQueen's topic in School

    Yep, crabs or public lice. This is what gets the students in my sex ed classes to go "ewww" more than any other STI they learn
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    Admin just not getting it

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to ABRN2012's topic in School

    THIS. It took me two years, but my last boss got it. Realized that a school physician's job does feel like signing paperwork and not much else, but that paperwork is worth its weight in gold. I talked...