fetch BSN, RN

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    Over It (already?!)

    fetch replied to CAdreamerRN's topic in School

    Thanks ya'll. I'll be school nurse subbing a bit next year, once the theme park closes for the winter, and I'm going to keep an eye out for other PRN nursing jobs. I figure, my mom held multiple jobs...
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    Over It (already?!)

    fetch replied to CAdreamerRN's topic in School

    I worked part time Sep-Dec 2014 at my old job in a theme park (non nursing), and realized that I didn't have to be miserable to earn a paycheck. There's nothing wrong with the job, the students, the...
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    Over It (already?!)

    fetch replied to CAdreamerRN's topic in School

    Almost all of my friends from college became teachers, and then I started school nursing a few years after them. One thing that is universally true in a school -- the first year SUCKS. It takes a full...
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    seeing students in the last 15 minutes of the day

    fetch replied to Flare's topic in School

    Yesterday I had a bus driver bring a student back to school because she wet herself on the bus ride home.
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    Ridiculous Reasons to See the Nurse

    fetch replied to NanaPoo's topic in School

    Yesterday in the last 20 minutes I had a student sent to me, very worried - and with a note from her teacher even! - about these strange yellow dots that suddenly appeared all over her face. It was...
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    Is the concept of respect dead?

    fetch replied to Windchaser22's topic in School

    I try to think of it more as, "And once upon a time, WE were as bad as
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    Random Thoughts: School Nurses

    fetch replied to Farawyn's topic in School

    NEVER quit trying to make fetch
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    Random Thoughts: School Nurses

    fetch replied to Farawyn's topic in School

    Kid "sprained" his wrist over the weekend, mom very kindly has been wrapping it each morning for him though both she and I know he's really fine. Came in yesterday and today asking for mom to leave...
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    Is the concept of respect dead?

    fetch replied to Windchaser22's topic in School

    Thankfully most of my population's rudeness is the barging in, talking to me while I'm talking to another student, not saying please/thank you, etc. I think I would lose my cool if a child started...
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    Is subbing better than being permanent staff?

    fetch replied to Curious1alwys's topic in School

    I intend to stick around! Especially with subbing, I'm looking forward to a whole new set of problems with middle and high
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    Ridiculous Reasons to See the Nurse

    fetch replied to NanaPoo's topic in School

    All of this is SO FAMILIAR. I now have 2 chairs in the hallway outside my clinic so that if I've already walked out, kiddo can have a seat instead of following me all around the school. (Well, that...
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    Your Magic Wand

    fetch replied to CalNevaMimi's topic in School

    I think I agree with the OP, I'd most use it for the vague "I don't feel good." Colds, ate too much at lunch, need to poop, runny nose . . . all of it GONE! Poof! Actually I spend a lot of time...
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    Is subbing better than being permanent staff?

    fetch replied to Curious1alwys's topic in School

    Next year I'm going to be moving from full time to subbing, but due partly to outside circumstances. I also feel like school nursing isn't really a good career fit for me -- at least not on the...
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    seeing students in the last 15 minutes of the day

    fetch replied to Flare's topic in School

    Oh my gosh yes! I have a PreK teacher who loves to send little ones who "look sick" in the last half hour of the day - and they're so little, they come with the teacher's aide - who agrees with me...
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    24 hour vomit free before returning to school?

    fetch replied to mamahuff's topic in School

    Here's what my district handbook has to say: So that has it built in for kids who see something gross, get motion sick, puke after running around, etc. It also means that when a kid comes to me and...
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    Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain....

    fetch replied to ohiobobcat's topic in School

    Well today is green eggs and ham day here . . . breakfast line is way longer than usual . . . guess I know what I have to look forward
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    Reporting to parents

    fetch replied to tiffc8433's topic in School

    Is this a situation you are encountering, a friend, a school
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    How many of you precept nursing students?

    fetch replied to SassyTachyRN's topic in School

    It's not really precepting per se, but I'm getting one student for two days a month apart, and three other students each one day. And of course the schedule got jumbled, so I was expecting my first...
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    The Snow Day Thread!

    fetch replied to Farawyn's topic in School

    We went from having a mild winter, to FOUR DAYS OFF last week due to snow, ice, and cold! Plus President's Day off, so we didn't have school at all last week. And we're supposed to get more today!...
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    The Snow Day Thread!

    fetch replied to Farawyn's topic in School

    Good gravy. I, uh, saw actual snowflakes yesterday? But we didn't get even an inch of snow here. Still, that was the most we've gotten all winter! (*Dodges the frozen fruit you'll be chucking this...
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    Rational for Notes

    fetch posted a topic in School

    I am butting heads with one particular teacher right now about requiring students to bring notes to the clinic. The teacher "doesn't have time" to write a note, she is "busy with other students." And...
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    Parents sending kids to you before the bell

    fetch replied to loveschoolnursing's topic in School

    This morning had a child who is new to this school, has a history of truancy issues, and has seen me 3 times in 2 weeks for homesickness. Well she walks in before announcements have even started,...
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    Things that want to make you slap people

    fetch replied to SchoolNurseTXstyle's topic in School

    Oh gosh, teachers, PLEASE do not tell a crying 5 year old "you're bleeding!" It turns the cries into
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    Rational for Notes

    fetch replied to fetch's topic in School

    Thank you guys. The difference between what they tell teacher and what they tell me is a good one. Since our school is small, and elementary, most of the kids being sent to the office are actually...
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    Random Thoughts: School Nurses

    fetch replied to Farawyn's topic in School

    SAME HERE. Today's random thought: I still don't have xray vision. I can't tell if that bone is broken. I can't see through your pants to look at a bruise on your shin. I can't see through the wall to...