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I am out this year. I did school nursing for 4 years. It was the hardest job I have ever had. However, I do appreciate the support everyone on this boards has given me. This is a terrific place to seek advice and garner wisdom from experts in the mo...

I do screen students with glasses. I like to make sure they are for distance and not just "reading glasses." I check vision with and without glasses. I do send home a referral and call the parent if they fail the screening with glasses. This year, I ...

I use the sponges as well. At the beginning of the year I have reusable cold paks, but those last me only a few months. Youi can get the sponges pretty cheap at the dollar store. They work well too and last longer.

The training that I use for food allergies is great. The link is below. There is a training for staff through the computer with a certificate upon completion so that you have documentation on who has done the training. The Mass Department of Public H...

It is so difficult when you talk to those parents who don't immunize their children. Most tell me, "I want my child to get them naturally." I have to restrain myself with all my might when I hear that. I want to say - "Are you crazy - out of your mi...

Granny RRT - I agree with you about the inhalers being readily available to students. We have a rule in our district that all doors need to be locked when out of the room. I do not lock my door when I go out of the med office as Inhalers HAVE to be ...

I know that we all have those frequent flyers daily. My school has increased in size this year as one school closed and the kids are stuffed into my building. I have Grades 3-6. I have experience with frequent flyers, but it is just getting to me ri...

Britrn04 Your news is not surprising to me. I wish you the best of luck. The education degree is a great idea, especially if you are young enough to use it. Congrats!

BritRN04, I am in the same boat as you as far as having a downright MEAN secretary. Just this one person can make work miserable. What I have resorted to is to try to get along without the secretary and try not to go to her for anything, but there ...

In Massachusetts, Diastat can only be administered by a registered nurse. I have a student with a Diastat order. I have to go everywhere he goes – meaning, if the school walks to the neighboring school for buddy reading – I have to go. If parent...

In our school district, we use paper logs to sign off medications that we give and use a computer program for all documentations of student visits. Most programs have immunization logs, screening results and dates, etc. Each school district varies, d...

Blue Moon, Just another note…I am a dental hygienist also and one of the dental assistants that I used to work with took a job teaching Dental Assisting in a Tech School. She loves it. She has been doing it for like 14 years now and loves it. I th...

Hi Blue Moon! Well, I had added stress from doing both jobs - running out when someone in gym needed an inhaler or ice pack and finding time to do my screenings and prep for classes. I enjoyed the classroom setting. There were some classes that I en...

Yas, the letter home to parents never works well for me. It is like mass hysteria when a letter goes home. Plus, the kids think they are sick or going to get sick because they are hearing about it. Just recently our Tech teacher was out sick and when...

I do very similar to FLARE and I also keep a written list of daily med takers times, grade, teacher and med as a fast cheat sheet. But I make a log sheet for all medications, even the PRNs I place the students with Daily Meds in a binder in the very ...

I am a School Nurse in Massachusetts and certified with Department of Education (DESE). Our administration had us school nurses teach the school curriculum HEALTH class last year. The health teacher retired and they decided to have the nurses and co...

We have an open house every year. The students bring their parents to look around the school and see their classrooms. I am school nurse for grades 3-6. I attend and man the hallway (or let say a greeter), but think that this would be a great opportu...

I am on my 4th year as a school nurse. I loved my job - the first year. The last 2 years I battled with administration as they did illegal things that involved the nursing department. The administrators did and still do not feel that school nurses ar...

Great ideas. I appreciate them all. I really don't like open house, but feel as if I should be there to support the school. Thank you all for your support. You all help me every time I post something. THANK YOU!

School nursing is demanding. I don't know about you but those kids suck the life right out of me. It is OK to take a little nap when you get home. I often get on that couch when I get home and take a quick 15 minute cat nap before I get dinner ready...

Wow, I think being with another nurse in a school would be perfect. I continually feel alone and find myself saying" I wish I had another nurse with me or work with another school nurse some place. I have a nurse friend who did just that - she left...

Unfortunately, I do not have administration that supports me as well as they should. My first year working as school nurse with PK-2, I had issues with incontinence. Parents would not answer their phones to come change their children - the list goes ...

I also give the students plastic tooth necklaces for lost teeth. I have learned not to give out things as my office is flooded with "visitors" and "talkers" constantly. I enjoy them, but my office gets so crowded that I have to shoo them away. I s...

Does anyone have carpeting in their health office? I was told yesterday that I am being moved to another room - one with wall to wall floor carpeting. I cringe thinking of all the times kids try to make it to my office and throw up on the floor and...

Thanks all....I protested and they are going to tile have the room for me. I had looked into runners, but I think they understood where I was coming from and they are going to put linoleum down or tile....half the room. It is a large room so I will k...