Flare ASN, BSN

school nursing, ortho, trauma

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    Another soiled clothing vent

    this goes back to the idea that i have alluded to before if the sinse of immediacy in a health office. sure - you don't want a kid sitting in soiled clothing for very long, especially when someone...
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    Vent/Question

    stand your ground. Teachers tend to look at things like vomitting and diarrhea in black and white - these things can't occur and should be excluded from thier classroom... (these are the same...
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    So happy it's Friday!

    For some it's TGIF....for me it's usually So Happy It's Thursday($.H.!.T.) ha
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    Need Advice: Defibrillator Training

    I teach mine - but i am a certified cpr instructor... and it's part of AHA heartsave training. i don't do any trainings outside
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    Just Amazed

    One of the more fascinating aspects of the job of a school nurse is the sense of immediacy that every situation presents with. Students start blurting out their litany of complaints to me before they...
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    Parent not satisfied with my nursing care

    welcome to the first in a large series of mama bear attacks. You will never deliver the care the way a mama bear wants. The best you can do is brush up on your skills and hope that you learn a...
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    Spring Break is OVER :(

    back today myself.... booo! hiss!! Usual flood of pe excusal notes, and already one kid with a s/a from skipping breakfast. My estimate is at least half a dozen more will be here in the next hour...
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    Extra Clothes

    when i was working in the all k school i had a process for lending clothing - soiled clothing were put in a plastic grocery bag with a note stapled through the handles to wash and return asap....
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    What Have I Gotten Myself Into?

    ...and you''ll have someone take video and post it to youtube for all of us to enjoy!
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    Non-contact Thermometers

    i have a thermo focus in my office that i don't use. it seems to work ok, but feels cumbersome for me to use. i like my tympanic welch
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    Creepy Patient

    I would have the cigs and lighter sent to the safe and would leave a message for the doc. Also - i don't let patients photograph
  12. hypomania... but that could have been brought on by so many late night study
  13. You pay a couple hundred bucks for BLS?? Can I teach you BLS?? I usually only charge around 65... but if you're willing to pay
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    Advice, please!

    Ah, nothing like getting dragged into a divorce situation. You are right - it is not up to you to write any letters that could benefit the parent - in fact it's important that you don't do anything...
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    permission to poop granted!

    don't get me wrong, i work with some really great teachers, but i work with some real doozies too. Have a teacher that is so germaphobic that all a student has to do is say they feel like they are...
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    permission to poop granted!

    because then they'd actually have to think instead of just blindly sending them off to my
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    hours worked

    actually i end up getting a lot of snide remarks from nurses at my pd hospital job. I work as an ADN and often just fill in here and there - so it's very common for me to come in for a 4 hr shift....
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    Disaster at work?

    I've been at work for 2 campus wide blackouts and 1 fire (i work as a per diem ADN). Trust me when I say that I was hopping those days. One blackout spared the icu and vent units, the other black...
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    Learning a Second Language Through Nursing

    anyone ever pony up the cash for a Rosetta stone course? Was it worth the
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    Students with eating disorders

    It sounds to me like you are on the right track. I have never worked in a boarding school, so as far as that piece of the puzzle goes, i cannot provide too much commentary, but when considering a...
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    permission to poop granted!

    I agree that there's nothing like the home throne advantage - but when ya gotta go, ya gotta
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    do you bring your work home with you?

    My full time job is as a school nurse. At the start of my career I was constantly sick with URIs. These days it's a rarity for me to get sick. A busy immune system is a happy immune
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    High school, Drugs and consent to tell others

    We have a zero tolerance policy. If a student is suspected to be under the influence, it is an immediate referral to the student assistance counselor, an administrator and the school nurse for an...
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    Teaching CPR ??

    i know where to get it... but i don't carry
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    Wiping off IV ports

    wipe wipe wipe wipe! We have alcohol infused caps that are supposed to be screw onto ports that aren't in