OldDude

Pediatrics Retired

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    Pledge of Allegiance?

    You bet!! We would have lost WW2 if not for the women working at home to churn out tanks and guns and ammo and uniforms and all the necessities of war; untold others working for the same effort - all...
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    Hand Sanitizer is a pesticide?

    I seems to me that if hand sanitizer was classified as a pesticide, considering a pint of sanitizer has enough alcohol to take down a moose, it would be considered too toxic for human contact. If a...
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    Live Lice Experiment, Game On

    Not that there's anything wrong with
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    Advice please.....I have so much anxiety about this

    FaraWINE
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    The Cool Kids

    I know, right? That was so clumsy of me not noticing
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    The Cool Kids

    I wish I would have noticed the twisted hem on my
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    The Cool Kids

    How kind twss! Thank you for those nice words! OK - so where's tht
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    Advice please.....I have so much anxiety about this

    These procedures are things that are not generated by the school nurse but come from the district risk manager, safety officer, or whatever that person is called in your district. They must be uniform...
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    When does staff rights start

    All area of nursing have evolved into staff having no rights or back up from administration; the patient or patient's family can say anything they want, to anyone they want, anytime they want and...
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    Frequent Flyers and Calls to parents.

    Yes...when it starts to get excessive I call every time the kid comes in, regardless of the
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    Dress Codes for School

    Totally. In a nut shell. Let's talk about mermaids, should they have a dress
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    Pledge of Allegiance?

    We recite the US pledge followed by the Texas pledge every morning - Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and
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    Live Lice Experiment, Game On

    My collection is pressed between clear scotch
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    Live Lice Experiment, Game On

    Patience Grasshopper...the future will soon bridge this gap of brief
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    Dress Codes for School

    "Stop
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    Dress Codes for School

    Red, long sleeve, 100% cotton, crew neck
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    Previous Experience to be School Nurse?

    I only speak on the elementary level but you can liken becoming a school nurse with no experience to starting to work at a pediatric emergency room, with no experience, as the only nurse on staff,...
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    Dress Codes for School

    That's ultimately the only solution; uniforms. Sexuality is what it is - agree or not. So girls are gonna be girls, boys are gonna be boys, we try to raise em right, pray for God's help, and hope for...
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    Dress Codes for School

    the solution is simple
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    Dress Codes for School

    Well kidz, look what you started! Our school has a dress code and it works about as well as everyone else's. As long as the decision is left to parents and kids the dress code will be broken. I sooooo...
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    Live Lice Experiment, Game On

    Yet again, another mythbuster - science confirmed but the hysteria is still
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    Live Lice Experiment, Game On

    I was out
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    Your thoughts on ice....

    I have the reusable cool-packs and hand them out freely in lieu of kissing the booboo. That way I've "done" something and everybody is happy; student, teacher, and parent, when the kid goes home and...
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    That's So Fetch! (Pink Wednesdays)

    It does when I wear em so,
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    Ridiculous things. This is a new one one me.

    The joys of parenthood. Just when you think you got it - you don't. Good luck on getting this episode turned around; until the next chapter. Having 4 boys (and the GIRL), I think I know to what you...