OyWithThePoodles RN

Med-surg, school nursing.

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    School Shootings

    OyWithThePoodles replied to Farawyn's topic in School

    Today is a statewide "Blue and Orange" day in honor of Marshall
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    School Shootings

    OyWithThePoodles replied to Farawyn's topic in School

    Same here. I posted it on facebook and I am friends with almost every teacher/aide that has a facebook in my school. Not a single like from any of them. I did forward it to my principal and asst....
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    BMI Screenings totally depress me

    OyWithThePoodles replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    I hate these BMI's. I have a kinder that is 46 lbs and our system flagged him as obese. Ugh. We no longer send home the BMI's to parents, just how to calculate them because of how many got upset that...
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    Dexcom

    OyWithThePoodles replied to Supernrse01's topic in School

    What am I missing? My T1D kiddos have a receiver that gives a reading every 5 minutes or so and alert with highs and lows. It has to stay within 20ft of them I think. Do your students not have this...
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    Who is your boss?

    OyWithThePoodles replied to nmr79's topic in School

    I am a district employee, my badge says "district nurse", not "First Street Elementary Nurse". If tomorrow Boss Lady decided to move me to another school, I that's what would happen, admin here would...
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    Who is your boss?

    OyWithThePoodles replied to nmr79's topic in School

    In my district we have a "district health coordinator" a.k.a. The Boss Lady. She is the one that hires and fires and is in charge of everything nurse related. She decides which schools we go to or if...
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    Diversion versus charting error

    OyWithThePoodles replied to NeedamiracleADN's topic in Patient Medications

    Do you have barcode scanning medication administration? If so the "pt sleeping" incident should show that the med was given. If not and you charted that the patient was sleeping, but say you gave...
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    Have you had issues with Alaris pumps

    OyWithThePoodles replied to tallynurse's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I am going to try and make this make sense. We found this happening with our Alaris pumps when a nurse would try to fix and "air-in-line" beeping error. The nurse would pull the tubing up a little...
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    Most Cringeworthy Thing You Did in Nursing School

    OyWithThePoodles replied to missnursingstudent19's topic in Nursing Humor

    Lots of things I'm sure. One in particular I remember: I worked in a peds office as an LPN and was doing my OB rotation to become an RN. In the peds office when drawing up a vaccine we would switch...
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    School Shootings

    OyWithThePoodles replied to Farawyn's topic in School

    Great read: One Teacher’s Brilliant Strategy to Stop Future School Shootings—And It's Not About Guns | Reader's
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    Is the flu in your school?

    OyWithThePoodles replied to Jacquipals's topic in School

    Oh, how sad about the sibling. I sent 13 home yesterday. I am up to 5 today. we have between 499 students enrolled and there are 48 out (not counting the 5 I sent
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    Is the flu in your school?

    OyWithThePoodles replied to Jacquipals's topic in School

    Yup. Lots. I do not let other parents know if flu is in the classroom, sucks, but oy the mass hysteria that would cause. It's bad enough when a teacher knows there is flu in the class. I just send...
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    School Shootings

    OyWithThePoodles replied to Farawyn's topic in School

    A quick google search shows that they are under $5,000.00 cheaper than I thought honestly. I think this could help somewhat. But honestly, wouldn't the gunman just shoot the person "manning" the...
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    C'Mon Now!

    OyWithThePoodles replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    I will add (I can't edit for some reason) that I do feel for parents who are stuck between staying home with their sick child and getting fired. That must be absolutely awful. My post came across...
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    C'Mon Now!

    OyWithThePoodles replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    They just keep coming today... Teacher brought a kiddo to me to check his temp, I sent him home on Friday with a fever and apparently he had the flu. Mom said the doctor said he could return if fever...
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    C'Mon Now!

    OyWithThePoodles replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    Highish functioning Autistic 1st grader: When I get home I am going to play GTA (Grand Theft Auto-highly inappropriate for a child of any age IMO) Me: Oh... 1st grader: Yeah, I'm going to drive around...
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    OCNRN63

    OyWithThePoodles replied to Kyrshamarks's topic in General Nursing

    Oh goodness. Love and prayers for peace and comfort during this
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    Protocol for diabetic Stomach ache.

    OyWithThePoodles replied to Amethya's topic in School

    I will add that a glucose of 31 is entirely possible. (No stark
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    School nurse vs. Med Aide

    OyWithThePoodles replied to Nurseinnebraska's topic in School

    And unfortunately you've now proven to them that they can get the RN -with knowledge and degree- for MA pay. (No judgement here, when I first started the job I was an RN in an LPN position) I agree...
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    C'Mon Now!

    OyWithThePoodles replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    I pretty much sent three kids home before I even got to work (they were sitting in my office waiting on me, and of course, no one else knows how to take a temp). Should be a fun
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    C'Mon Now!

    OyWithThePoodles replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    Some of mine would be like "K, call the
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    On a Roll !!!!

    OyWithThePoodles replied to NutmeggeRN's topic in School

    THIS is why I think we should have stock Epi. But we
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    On a Roll !!!!

    OyWithThePoodles replied to NutmeggeRN's topic in School

    Yikes!
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    Just curious... children who vomit!!

    OyWithThePoodles replied to NurseCard's topic in School

    I will also add that our K-5 does not have a fever-free, vomit-free policy. Parents should use their own discretion, if your child was sent home with a temp of 101.5 or above they should probably stay...
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    Just curious... children who vomit!!

    OyWithThePoodles replied to NurseCard's topic in School

    At my school, if the child is in preschool their policy is to go home regardless of the reason. One episode of vomiting and you have to go home and cannot return for 24 hours. For the rest of the...