BeckyESRN

BeckyESRN

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  1. Managing allergy symptoms

    BeckyESRN replied to ConnecticutMassRN's topic in School

    Half of my visits this week have been accompanied by a note that says "has pink eye". Thank goodness for the rain today, it seems to have cured all the "pink eye" that's been going

  2. hot glue guns

    BeckyESRN replied to jess11RN's topic in School

    We have 4 hot glue guns in the makers space, not the little low temp kind, the melt your skin off hot kind. 2-5 are allowed to use the glue guns with supervision. Somehow, every year, it's only the...

  3. These teachers done lost their minds

    BeckyESRN replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    What The Focalin?! I can't even imagine what I would have said to that

  4. Medical room goodies?

    BeckyESRN replied to RNTadaaaa's topic in School

    I had been keeping a jar of little erasers on my counter, but after watching several students attempt to take handfuls of them and students faking illness and injury (all grade levels) to get a 60 for...

  5. New School Nurse

    BeckyESRN replied to busybee22's topic in School

    Along with the above skills mentioned, brush up on your side-eye look and use of therapeutic silence. Oh and on Wednesdays we wear pink!

  6. not getting the info I need

    BeckyESRN replied to jess11RN's topic in School

    Can you come up with a system for ensuring you have the correct paper from the parent and for communicating this info to you? Like a check list for accepting medication/medical forms. medication in...

  7. C'Mon Now!

    BeckyESRN replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    Geez, how did you miss the flu when he had such a bad case of the hiccups?! Wasn't it obvious? I'm sure the teacher knew it was the flu? I've never been so excited for extreme cold temps, closed...

  8. C'Mon Now!

    BeckyESRN replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    One 1st grader vomited yesterday, one single student. You'd think the entire school needed to be shut down and decontaminated. Every teacher has told me that "that real bad stomach flu is going...

  9. C'Mon Now!

    BeckyESRN replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    The last "I have a fever and mommy gave me medicine" that I had was a kinder who volunteered this information during his class' morning meeting. He neglected to mention that it was on SATURDAY and it...

  10. What Would You Buy??

    BeckyESRN replied to BluebellRN's topic in School

    When I was cleaning out my office my first year, I found a poster with a bunch of animals smoking, it reads "It looks just as stupid when you do it". Yeah...that would go over

  11. When parents are not upfront on medical forms

    BeckyESRN replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    Our parents seem to think that medical information will be displayed for all to see. I have parents that would rather cut off their own arm than tell me that their kid takes vyvanse? . Or the...

  12. When parents are not upfront on medical forms

    BeckyESRN replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    School nurses- doing precision guess work based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable

  13. What Would You Buy??

    BeckyESRN replied to BluebellRN's topic in School

    The "good" tissues! Books about the human body, body coloring books for kids, easily sanitized fidget toys for kids that are waiting on parents(Find It! are my favorites), an anatomy model or two (I...

  14. C'Mon Now!

    BeckyESRN replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    3rd grader "I have dried glue all over my hands" me: Why? 3rd: "I was doing a craft" me: Did you wash your hands? 3rd: "No! (looking at me like this was an outrageous suggestion) My teacher said you...

  15. Lice, Lice and more Lice...

    BeckyESRN replied to Bulldogs's topic in School

    These things have nothing to do with head

  16. C'Mon Now!

    BeckyESRN replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    Had a kid bring me a box of cold medicine and tell me "Grandma said I need this at lunch time" it was Zarbee's NIGHT TIME cough and cold with melatonin.

  17. We're back!!!

    BeckyESRN replied to Supernrse01's topic in School

    Glad to be back! Missed you

  18. What did you miss the most while allnurses was "closed"?

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

    I've missed my nurse's station over on the School Nurse board! Can't wait until it's back to

  19. I can't take much more

    BeckyESRN replied to Cattitude's topic in School

    Head lice are an annoyance at most. They are only shared by PROLONGED head to head contact. Head lice have not and never will be an epidemic, especially because they do not transmit diseases. They...

  20. C'Mon Now!

    BeckyESRN replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    4th grader with a "concussion" it's in quotes because he is literally the most dramatic and the neediest child that I have EVER met. Just came in with a headache and nausea (in math, surprise!) he...

  21. Need to vent and process this

    BeckyESRN replied to jess11RN's topic in School

    Holy bad judgement, Batman! What is wrong with those EMTs? Are they getting bonuses to NOT

  22. May the odds be ever in your favor...

    BeckyESRN replied to kidzcare's topic in School

    We can call him The Head Louse

  23. May the odds be ever in your favor...

    BeckyESRN replied to kidzcare's topic in School

    Or catch it and name it and train it to do head lice

  24. May the odds be ever in your favor...

    BeckyESRN replied to kidzcare's topic in School

    Not a creature was stirring, not even

  25. Lice dilemma

    BeckyESRN replied to OhioBPH's topic in School

    Maybe stall on the check until Thursday? That way, you've done your due diligence and you don't have to exclude. Personally, I would not check a student because a teacher said another student saw bugs...