WineRN

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  1. Who Keeps Staff Vaccines

    WineRN replied to guest83140's topic in School

    The Nurse's office here used to because flu shots and other vaccinations were given by the school nurse. Currently I have no idea. I have a digital health record for all my staff because I need to...

  2. I feel like I'm losing.

    WineRN replied to Amethya's topic in School

    My opinion, maybe your boss needs to be made angry in order to realize that you are being dumped on. I would explain that recently the admins in your building have been asking you to do things that...

  3. Ring removal

    WineRN replied to ohiobobcat's topic in School

    I just spent much to much time watching youtube videos on floss/ribbon ring removal. This is a life skill I've definitely been

  4. How many kids do you see in a day?

    WineRN replied to RNLisaC's topic in School

    THIS! I'm not sure what program you use to chart but SNAP allows you to pull up all sorts of fun stuff (frequent visits, the # of students each teacher sends, the time each kid is in your office,...

  5. Good Kids

    WineRN replied to Farawyn's topic in School

    Good kids come from good parents. I have a student who is waiting for a lung transplant and on O2 who is just the coolest little girl. Two weeks ago when Noro hit our school, I called her mother to...

  6. Phone calls to parents.

    WineRN replied to Amethya's topic in School

    Don't let the crazies get you down! No matter what you do, there will be those who question you. As long as you do what's best for your students that's all that

  7. Bed bugs

    WineRN replied to Riley RN's topic in School

    I had a previous position in a LTC community with young adults with DDs that had a bed bug outbreak. Other than treating the bites, nursing was not allowed to be involved. For the longest time our...

  8. How many kids do you see in a day?

    WineRN replied to RNLisaC's topic in School

    I'm in a k-5 around 400+, Most days around i see around 50. BUT I have been taking measures to cut it down. My first 2 weeks I saw between 60-70 kids each day. The previous nurse would keep EVERYONE a...

  9. STAAR Testing Anxeity

    WineRN replied to Amethya's topic in School

    :barf02:You already did with the "vomit soaked test

  10. STAAR Testing Anxeity

    WineRN replied to Amethya's topic in School

    Now I'm getting anxiety about my role during the state testing

  11. C'Mon Now!

    WineRN replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    Why does the general public think that Tylenol is a CURE instead of just a treatment for symptoms?! Even my staff comes in reporting that they felt awful during the night, but took a tyelnol this...

  12. Phone calls to parents.

    WineRN replied to Amethya's topic in School

    I would never get anything done if I had to be on the phone for each visit. Could you send notes home for non emergent things? One of the nurse's in my other district has a cute "Your Child stopped by...

  13. Licegate 2017

    WineRN replied to KKEGS's topic in School

    :roflmao:

  14. Nurse Self Evaluation

    WineRN replied to Schoolnurse73's topic in School

    I have to do one too, despite starting in January. Ours is 8 pages! I rated myself as "meets expectations" or "needs improvement" because I figure I should only improve from

  15. STAAR Testing Anxeity

    WineRN replied to Amethya's topic in School

    I have watched this flow of anxiety for things like the Noro Virus outbreak we had a few weeks ago. The teacher got freaked out and just started sending down students who "looked off", which caused...

  16. The Incontinence Epidemic

    WineRN replied to Keepstanding's topic in School

    AH! If our jobs could be turned into a horror movie, right there would be my

  17. The Pacer Test

    WineRN replied to BunnyBunnyBSNRN's topic in School

    YES!! They stagger which grades do it here, so I had a Pacer

  18. C'Mon Now!

    WineRN replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    Nope, he doesn't miss school. I would COMPLETELY get it if he was having problems here...but this came out of no where to me and the

  19. Inhalers

    WineRN replied to heavenwith7's topic in School

    We require action plans with the doctor's orders...but NONE of mine have a 1-2 times per week limit. I only have one who tries to abuse the system and claim she is wheezing to get out of strings...

  20. Essential oils

    WineRN replied to MrNurse(x2)'s topic in School

    We are starting that next year. The nurse before me accepted this small vial of belladonna pearls (its not labeled so i honestly have no idea WHAT it is) that they parents wanted us to keep for...

  21. C'Mon Now!

    WineRN replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    I have a student's family who is trying to get us and our middle school to remove all of the carpet in the building because her son has such "severe allergies" and "has developed asthma" because of my...

  22. Student Injury

    WineRN replied to Amethya's topic in School

    Prayers for you and your

  23. Good Kids

    WineRN replied to Farawyn's topic in School

    We have 5 core values that the kids learn about in our school and today is "initiate kindness" day. I had two kids drop off thank you cards in my office that they made for me in class ? One even drew...

  24. I've hit the wall...

    WineRN replied to Supernrse01's topic in School

    63 total days, 44 work days. Our Spring Break was last week and it hit me all over again what a great choice I made with taking this school nurse position. Cannot beat this amazing

  25. Another student death

    WineRN replied to NutmeggeRN's topic in School

    I am so sorry for your loss. You and your student's and families are in my thoughts and