A few years ago I had a teacher who had a relationship with a local organization... well she personally holds a weekend overnighter for her class at this organization. It is not a school sponsored...
I'm in IN and Lions Club does preK and K vision screenings here, which aren't state mandated grades but they believe in the importance of early detection so they like to do those grades. They will...
We have one in our district and I used it to do all of my mandated grades.. 1, 3, 5. Had them (330 kids in those grades) done in 3 hours. It was awesome. I did get a lot more fails than normal, but...
I had a confirmed flu case in a staff member, according to that person, but I never saw any documentation. This was back in November. Haven't seen any in kids yet. Today my daughter tested positive...
SassyTachyRN replied to pedsnurse112's topic in General Nursing
I was going to say wellness coordinator as well. The company I work for has a wellness coordinator who is a RN and she's in charge of promoting employee health programs and connecting employees with...
Last year we added on I think a week at the end of the school year and we had 3 or 4 built in days. Most of our days off were for bitter cold (-20 to -40 wind chills). This year we haven't had any...
We have parent teacher conferences the next two nights (4 hrs each night), so we get Friday off. I have to stay for conferences too, but I'm never needed... I just had a bunch of new bulletin boards...
I had a few last week.. An upset kiddo, upset over a spelling test grade and the teacher requested rest in the nurses clinic... I sent her to the counselor instead after I had a reassuring talk with...
SassyTachyRN replied to SchoolNurseTXstyle's topic in School
Makes me thankful that my state requires CPR/First Aid certification for teacher licenses. Of course, that doesn't actually mean they won't freeze up and won't know what to
I am not responsible for this. We are a large district, and have a nursing supervisor who will try to arrange for a sub, but sometimes cannot, and another nurse will be on call for our buildings....
I graduated with a deaf nurse. The college provided someone to come and sign for her for the entirety of the program. She could read lips really well. Since she had to watch lips or her signer, she...
SassyTachyRN replied to SchoolNurseTXstyle's topic in School
I read that same article this AM too... I just don't get why the student was still face down when the nurse arrived. They really couldn't even roll him over to check on him to see if he was breathing...
I have a Timex IronMan watch. Waterproof, day, date, has seconds, even a timer. An indiglo light too. Nothing more fancy than that, I think I paid $40 for it at