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  1. bed bugs...need your advice

    So I am currently working with a family on a bed bug issue along with other services helping. In the meantime, we found a bug in this students belongings (alive and crawling in their library book)....
  2. How did you land a school nurse job?

    I offered to do substitute teaching for the year prior to landing the school nurse position :) I have been a nurse for 12 years, I knew I was going to have a major pay cut with this position, but I am...
  3. Parents sending kids to you before the bell

    This is my first year of school nursing. And I have had several students coming in to see me before the bell rings in the morning saying.....my mom wants you to look at my throat and tell me if I can...
  4. Do you enter meds into your school web program?

    The school I work for doesn't have a medical system for me to use to document. Everything is done by hand/ hard copy. But we do have a system that the school uses for non-medical information....the...
  5. Do you enter meds into your school web program?

    I told a teacher that I was not going to enter them because of FERPA/HIPPA laws and she looked at me funny. I am new this year and the nurse before entered all this information and sent out hard...
  6. "Emergencies" in the school

    ROFL....LOVE LOVE
  7. Too old? Too young?? Career? Question:)

    Decided to go into nursing at age 15 and did CNA school during junior year in high school...started nursing pre-req's at at 16 (yes did high school courses and college courses same time...college...
  8. Parents sending kids to you before the bell

    AGREED: LOVE
  9. Parents sending kids to you before the bell

    I get letters from parents that say " please call me at work if you see Billy, I will just come get him" And of course.....here comes Billy at 8:02 a.m. ready to see the
  10. How is your office set up/decorated?

    Does anyone else have a bulletin board they are expected to decorate regularly? My board is right by the office and the main focal point of the hallways. I never know what to put up....teachers are...
  11. Random Thoughts: School Nurses

    Ya know I was thinking that I was having a Blah kinda day...then I remembered, at least its not like last month when a kindergartener handed me his underwear full of diarrhea......My day can only go...
  12. Wish List

    This may sound silly to some but I would love a spacious countertop that I could use while standing. All my work is done sitting at a typical office desk and I would rather stand all day than sit - my...
  13. Brainstorm with me.......

    I would like to start by saying this is my first year as a school nurse. I love it. The principal has asked that I write a letter to all staff explaining the rationale behind sending the students...
  14. I have a preschool attached to the elementary school that I work for.....This is my first year as the school nurse and I am the first nurse to request immunization records for the preschool that is...
  15. Preschool in my elementary school........immunization question

    I did get a response from the state (Indiana) and apparently with the preschoolers not being "enrolled" in my school...I can only recommend that they have their immunizations.....I can not require it,...
  16. Eczema on hands?

    I'm having this same issue...I am also in Indiana. I have been using