OldDude

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    What is One of the Most Memorable Moments in Your Nursing Career?

    OldDude replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    RIGHT???!!! "just in a days work!" Heroes you guys are...one and
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    Why don't we talk much about these scenarios?

    OldDude replied to Persephone Paige's topic in General Nursing

    Hopefully when "help" arrives it will actually be helpful. The last serious incident I was involved in was many many years ago in the ER when a 17 year old girl was kicking all of our butts left and...
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    Why don't we talk much about these scenarios?

    OldDude replied to Persephone Paige's topic in General Nursing

    CPI is a feckless pantywaist program intended to insulate administration from responsibility...other than that, I don't have an opinion about
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    Sheesh.

    OldDude replied to ruby_jane's topic in School

    Well, you only have 4 more to
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    Shake it off

    OldDude replied to Rizowe's topic in School

    Any intervention on your part at this stage of their life is going to be like trying to nail Jello to a tree. Just "shake it off" and be thankful the little snowflakes don't belong to you. When they...
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    HIPAA Question

    OldDude replied to easttnnurse1's topic in School

    thanks for the clarification...as far as you and your school are concerned there isn't any privacy violations; you didn't share with anyone who didn't have an appropriate reason to know. But what a...
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    HIPAA Question

    OldDude replied to easttnnurse1's topic in School

    Are you saying you/the school formed a 504 committee and placed the student in 504 with no direct input from the parent other than screen shots you received from social
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    Nosebleeds

    OldDude replied to jnemartin's topic in School

    I just sent a 5th grader home today with a nosebleed that seeped for over an hour. It, obviously, was coming from under his nasal bone where direct pressure could not be applied. He saturated 6 nasal...
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    Why don't we talk much about these scenarios?

    OldDude replied to Persephone Paige's topic in General Nursing

    You are psyche
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    Why don't we talk much about these scenarios?

    OldDude replied to Persephone Paige's topic in General Nursing

    Personally, I think MOST of this behavior is an extension of how our society is evolving into not holding each other accountable for anti-social behavior. You see it every day. I think if it was...
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    Advice please!

    OldDude replied to Jacquipals's topic in School

    Frustrating...
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    Advice please!

    OldDude replied to Jacquipals's topic in School

    How do you "KNOW" they are high on marijuana? I know you know but how can you prove
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    Advice please!

    OldDude replied to Jacquipals's topic in School

    The child's age does make a big difference. Excellent advice above. Just this school year we had a mom, with a similar history, come to pick up her 1st grader. Staff members made a keen observation...
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    Well it was a pleasure.

    OldDude replied to imaneedmycoffeefirst89's topic in School

    Amen!
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    AM meds at school

    OldDude replied to NurseMMJ's topic in School

    I like to remind myself that kids can't pick their parents and nothing I can do will change a parent's behavior, so if having their medicine at school will help them to be successful I'm
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    Bed Bugs- parents don't think it's a big deal

    OldDude replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    Interestingly enough...bed bugs are not addressed in our student handbook or school policy and are not referenced as a condition by which to exclude children from school by the Health Department....
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    how big are your offices?

    OldDude replied to jess11RN's topic in School

    That makes me feel better about mine...thank
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    how big are your offices?

    OldDude replied to jess11RN's topic in School

    As I read the comments above...I guess it could be smaller, I'm lucky, It's not bad actually, I have the biggest, Mine is tiny, Mine is a decent size, Nothing special but gets the job done...I am...
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    How do you deal with overreactors?

    OldDude replied to BrisketRN's topic in School

    Elementary level...I don't do pain
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    How do you deal with overreactors?

    OldDude replied to BrisketRN's topic in School

    I play along at first, give them time to see if they get tired if the acting, and if they persist after a half hour or so, and the complaint remains consistent, I'll go ahead and call a
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    AM meds at school

    OldDude replied to NurseMMJ's topic in School

    I've often tried to convince our teaching staff and administration to separate the association between school and home. Structure their academics where a kid can be successful at school with no...
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    Essential Oil Diffusers

    OldDude replied to BluebellRN's topic in School

    If your admin is that shallow, solid research isn’t going to have an effect on them. How about burning incense in every classroom? You can’t fix stupid. Just stick with the allergic reaction issue...
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    Countdown to Spring Break.....

    OldDude replied to AdobeRN's topic in School

    32 work days till "the good ole summer
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    S.C. 5th Grader Dies After a Fight at School

    OldDude replied to BunnyBunnyBSNRN's topic in School

    Although we'll never know...it's highly likely the student who did the beating has a discipline history as long as your
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    S.C. 5th Grader Dies After a Fight at School

    OldDude replied to BunnyBunnyBSNRN's topic in School

    There is no real discipline in public school. Effective discipline involves pain; physical or emotional. NO discipline in public school now is physically or emotionally painful to the segment of the...