I totally agree with this. It crystallizes Praiser's initial post subject. If you tell a child having a seizure to "cut that out," and they stop or they change what they're doing to something else,or...
Yes, you're correct. But keep in mind that you are not responsible for the privacy violations by others. It doesn't involve you if someone who has the right to know something about a kid passes that...
As school nurses we face the same dilemma but there isn't a psych unit, physician, any other nurse or any other medical person; just us and whatever seizure action plan we have...if any...and
I agree. We are saying the same thing...it's pretend or psychogenic. Psychogenic seizures are real to the person experiencing them. As school nurses we seldom get past the umbrella diagnosis of...
I'm good with that - psychogenic seizure...I think the more appropriate term to use, otherwise, instead of pseudo seizure would be idiopathic seizure. It's a seizure from an unknown origin. Not a fake...
"A series of movements or behaviors that resemble a seizure but are not caused by abnormal electrical brain activity. SOME ARE SIMULATED FOR SECONDARY GAIN AND SOME BY PSYCHOLOGICAL CAUSES; THEY CAN...
I've heard that term before and I agree with Mr. There isn't such a thing as a false seizure. Regardless of the cause, a seizure is a seizure or it's not. Oh, my child has pseudo headaches; the doctor...
Strep is omni-present any time of the school year and scarlet fever is simply a streptococcal rash so I wouldn't send out any notification. Exclusion and return to school would apply to this condition...