RatherBHiking BSN, RN

"I've had patients tell me that I am friendly, caring, and a good listener,” These are great qualities to have for L&D. I'm not high energy or extroverted either but have been complimented on my ability to remain calm in high stress situa...

Best wishes to you! I completely understand because I just did the same thing! 😁It worked out great for me while I had kids at home but now that they've all moved on it was time for me to move on as well. I spent most of my career in school nursing a...

This past school year we had so many spirit days with special t shirts all staff was to wear that I gave up scrub tops and wore tshirts with my scrub pants. Then we had a month of staff wearing jeans so I did as well. I've never liked scrub top...

I can relate and used to get asked for advice (or diagnoses or reassurance they weren't dying) A LOT! And nothing annoys me more than some teacher thinking they can literally interrupt an assessment of a child to get their non-emergent blood pressure...

We didn't have a template or official meetings. However every school had to come up with some type of wellness activity/program. Things that were done in the county included family wellness nights (where families could come and play in the gym variou...

I bought an XL bag (I think it locks too) that will fit all my meds in case of an actual evacuation from one of the school nurse supply companies. (I don't mess with it for a known drill.)

Haha I love this!😂

You remain not certified and we will tell on you if you try to dispute this. We will also put you on a "do not certify list.” 😂🙄😂 Oh OK then! Double dog dare you! That's like Walmart saying if you don't show up to pick up your order we will not ...

There are a lot of these online CPR certification sites. Yes they can "certify" you and give you a card by doing everything online but healthcare workers are held to a higher standard and must be certified through the AHA and they only allow a hands ...

We are on the same contract as teachers but definitely not part of the administration. I've lost count how many times a teacher has tried to boss me around and I put my foot down and explain why that's not best or I agree or want to do that to have t...

I'd look up diabetic management and treatment in the schools (many have omnipods and dexcoms but newer diabetics won't. Look at how to carb count, figure out insulin to carb ratios, algorithms for insulin (the Dr will give). Also glucagon treatment. ...

PINCH you nose if it’s bleeding! Catching the blood in your hands does not stop it. 🙄

I’ve been there. Schools are a whole different arena. As nurses we are used to being paid for every minute of work. It’s not that way in the education system. Teachers aren’t getting paid for after hours programs usually. Teachers spend many hours at...

Six weeks is common around here unfortunately. I’m glad they want to give you a couple more at least. The first thing I’d do is talk to the manager and be honest that you’re feeling overwhelmed and maybe in addition to extra time they could give you ...

I’ve never found anything that we are allowed to use that helps. If they can’t stop coughing and it’s constant or making them vomit I just send them home. Some kids end up needing an inhaler or steroids so I always recommend Dr follow up if they don...

Wow over a year is a long time of this! It sounds like he has anxiety. My husband at different times would do the same thing and no matter how much I reassured him he probably wasn’t dying he would keep complaining and refuse to do anything about it ...

I’m very sorry you’re dealing with this! I can understand why it would be very hard. Please get some counseling asap. You have a lot of stress going on and you need to take care of yourself first and learn how to cope with your fertility issues and p...

We have tried talking to students, talking to parents, offering hygeine supplies, having meetings with the parents, having the students shower at school and/or washing their clothes, even calling CPS for bad cases when they don't have running water (...

Is she your employee or are you in charge of staffing her position when she is out? Because otherwise, it's not your place. "We don't want her to feel she needs to spend it at school." OK but what about how SHE feels??? Yes, you're be...

Same!

It happens sometimes! LOL! Kids are tough and they can even run a fever and still want to play!! I tell my teachers if you'll forgive me for sending a student that's truly sick back to class I'll forgive you for sending me kids that are faking. We ca...

If the teachers are the ones that feel the parent needs called and you don't then why can't the teachers message the parents and say I sent your child to the nurse for xyz, they were OK to stay and if you have any questions let us know? Most teachers...

When I was in the high school, 99% of the students came in for that and most of the time it was to go home. I'd check their temp and make them drink water (and eat crackers if they wanted) and rest for about a half hour and see if anything happened. ...

I've been a school nurse for over 20 years and I completely understand the boredom, burn out and exhaustion day after day. If you're bored (and that doesn't always mean not busy but just not challenged enough) or burnt out I'd suggest one of thr...

In our district, there is one nurse per school. It doesn’t matter if you have 300 students or 1500, it’s just one nurse with no assistant. Even though 1500 is a lot, those are high schools and they see less kids a day than a lot of the smaller school...