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This will be my third year at my school and to many people I am still "the nurse." It does sometimes bother me, but it is getting better :) I have been known to call teachers "the teacher" so maybe they are getting the hint!

Is anyone else slightly horrified by what the cafeteria is serving? Our school has done away with preparing breakfast and is now serving prepackaged foods like muffins, pop tarts, strudels, and something they call "french toast" which is tiny pieces of prepackaged wheat bread with some sort of flavouring and syrup. Yes, we participate in the free and reduced lunch program so whatever is served must meet federal guidelines, but just because the package says it's within limits does not make it healthy! The lunch that is prepared by the cafeteria is actually decent and there are some days that I choose to eat what is prepared. Has anyone had success in changing the food served? What did you do? Thanks and have a wonderful weekend!

It's my birthday and one of my friend teachers had all her students make me cards. They are so sweet! Like, "Thank you for giving me an ice pack when I fell off the slide" or "Thanks for calling my mom when I was sick" and I've had 2 classes sing me happy birthday! It's great to feel appreciated as a school nurse since the majority of the time my job is misunderstood, overlooked, and undervalued!

I am a new school nurse and have a student that I think has scabies. This student has a history at the school for poor hygiene and is a 'picker'- she constantly picks at her arms making any injury worse and creating new injuries where there previously weren't any. I have been educating her and have made numerous calls to her mother about this problem. Mom says there is nothing she can do because student won't stop picking. Well over the last week her hands have become covered with red bumps, some of them scabbed, some raw from scratching, some just red skin. And the skin between her thumb and pointer finger is thick and rough. Her mom said she took her to the doctor and I called and confirmed that she did visit the doctor, but couldn't tell me anything else except that she can be in school as long as she started her medicine, which mom says she did. Everyone is just grossed out, teachers, students, even me (although I act totally professional and non judgemental, or course) and I feel guilty that I didn't recognize that it was scabies on her first visit with the bumps. Has anyone else had any experience with something like this? Any thoughts or scabies recommendations are appreciated!