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We have one; it covers all the schools (four) in our corporation. It's chaired by one of the principals. I am on it, as well as a teacher from each of the schools, a school board member, head dietitian, and a high school student. We cover activities ...

2 schools, 350-400 each, just me

I was reading this thread this morning and while reading it, got a phone call from a dad who dropped f-bombs all over me because we don't do classroom checks any more. Great timing!

Six years in, making $23/hr. RN with 25 years of acute care/mgmt experience. It was quite a pay cut lol. No contract, no retirement, two paid holidays/year. I do have good health insurance, though.

You are missed! Nice to hear from you!

in ears and throats? I have been told recently that if a child comes to me with a sore throat or earache, I should not take a look. I am to just report it to the parents. What do you do?

I still have kids whose parents haven't turned in any allergy paperwork or epipens. I have stock epi to cover them at school but on the field trip it will have to be a 911 call.

Those of you who still have to do classroom checks, HOW in the world do you find time to do that??? If you spend an average of 5 minutes a kid, and have 750 kids, that's like two solid weeks without doing ANYTHING ELSE. How is that even possible????

I have a student starting school with a g-tube who is in a military family; I am in Indiana, the student's GI doctor is in the military and his office is in Texas. Can I take orders from him for the G-tube? Mom tells me he is also licensed to practi...

THIS. So many times when I ask what the parent did about the injury that happened last night (or three days ago) I get, "Mom said to have you check it out."

No way! That's one of the main reasons I took this (low-paying) job!

My kinder T1 has a lunchbox-type bag that goes with him everywhere he goes. It has his meter and supplies and his fast-acting carbs (typically two juices, a glucose gel, and glucose tabs) as well as his Glucagon, and a pocket on the outside for his D...

Does anyone do the growing-up talk in fourth grade? My P&G program materials just came so we are doing the talk next week, but for a lot of girls, it's closing the barn door after the horses are out. I will for sure do the program without the s...

Unzipped his eyelid from his fleece shirt...

I ordered in November 26 and haven't got it yet. We usually have "the talk" the day before spring break, and that's next week!

If lice die off the host in 24 hours, why does everything say to bag things up for two weeks?? Even the CDC website.

The probe broke on my oral thermometer yesterday. The non-contact thermometers are half the price of a new probe, and I would no longer have to buy probe covers. What do you use?

My regulars came, but not my juniors.

A parent asked about nutritional and weight loss information/assist for her overweight son. What would you do with that?

That was, of course, what was running through my head!

That's kind of what I was thinking...

This is what I have and it's the second one that the probe broke! The little plastic piece that holds the probe cover broke off.

Did you all see that some of the Epipens have had their expiration dates extended? You might take a look if you haven't received yours.

I am doing this for the first time next month. Please come back and post any suggestions for ways to streamline etc. Thanks in advance!

Does that work for near and distance acuity requirements? When I talked to a Lion's Club gentleman who was here to do Pre-K with the spot screener, he said they are only supposed to do up to age 5; however, I know a nearby district has the Lions do t...