OyWithThePoodles RN

Alright y'all. I tried searching, promise. And I could not find a previous post on this even though I know they're there. I am at a high school now (working with Mr. Poodles!!) and I am unfamiliar with how to assess the students if they're susp...

Had a kid bring his wet, bloody tooth and plop it right on my desk. C'mon now! Or the kid that did running knee slide into my office. C'mon now! The ones old enough to cover their mouths but choose to cough right in your face inst...

Is there a medical word that you absolutely hate? Or one that you can never seem to pronounce correctly? Hate: Meatus. (Eww) Gargle. Mispronounce: Prophylaxis. I ALWAYS say prophylaxicks. I have a co-worker that says Ce...

We got rid of masks last week. So far I have two positives that are clearly directly related to each other. We are only contact tracing at home contacts, tracing at school now would be near impossible at the high school and middle school level. ...

I wear scrubs or scrub pants and a school t-shirt. On Friday's I wear jeans and a school shirt.

See if you can get anyone to donate... We have a large car production company nearby and they've donated about 10,000 masks, if not more.

Back when I was seeing a lot of strep, MD's were starting to write to return after 12 hours. I was surprised honestly.

The facetiming needs to stop. It is disrupting to the learning process for every other child in the building. The school has reasonable accommodations, the nurse. Admin needs to get on board before other parents start throwing a fit. If mom is nit-pi...

I just wouldn't sign it and tell them to float you. Get your doctor to sign off on you being medically able to float, they can't force you to have a disability if your doctor says you don't.

Definitely staying. I did hospital nursing for 9 years, and I truly love what I do. Working with my spouse is my incentive, I guess ?.

I worked in a hospital for NINE YEARS. And I kid you not, every single time I walked in to that supply room for something that wasn't used daily, I would stand there for a good 10 minutes searching. It has nothing to do with you not listening. But do...

THANK YOU!!

Okay... it's been a long day and my brain is tired. What in the world is a "come to my house and mow my lawn" assessment? ? Extremely bloodshot eyes.

Any chance you'd wanna maybe sneak me a copy of that? ?

Admin is the one who brought her to me, she had already been searched and questioned by the SRO and he said she had no suspicious reactions or answers, which was good. I wanted to make sure there wasn't anything I didn't do. Thank you!

You did the right thing. We offer an insurance to parents, but it doesn't pay 100% of the cost of injury. Parents' insurance pays and what it doesn't cover, the school insurance picks up.

Right. It is a law in our state now that the school must be notified within 24-hours of receiving a positive, BY PARENTS. So, if they're breaking the law, that's on them. I let him know after he said "you wouldn't know anything about me if I hadn't t...

Had a positive parent send their son to school after they were told to quarantine the kid. The had the audacity to get mad at me when the student had to be picked up. Mad because we checked his temperature at school before entry and didn't have a fev...

The hospital I used to work at required another nurse to verify and electronically sign their 3-4 ID in the computer. If this isn't in place at your facility, maybe this is a good change that will come. With every incident report filed they should be...

I had a co-worker that anytime she wore black scrubs, we had a death on the unit. Only took a handful of times before we told her to burn her black scrubs.

I got my Moderna vaccine last week. Arm was sore, got worse as the night went on but was fine the next morning. I was very fatigued, but otherwise fine.

I certainly have experienced this with our health department. Getting letters for positive patients that say they are in quarantine instead of isolation, having seven year old's who you know cannot fully quarantine from their positive parent, only be...

I will also add, there were many times I was sent to the PCU or ICU to take patients. BUT. They didn't have drips or vents, usually walkie talkies that were simply waiting on a transfer to a lower level care floor. They didn't have anything going on ...

I worked on a med-surg floor for 9 years and the majority of our patients were tele. Most unnecessary, but the hospitalist would order it on EVERYONE. Drove me crazy. But it certainly wasn't out of my scope. Granted, our tele patients were monitored ...

And it's always the one's who play sports. Always.