SaltineQueen

I *just* saw on FB (so you know it's true) that a dog in China tested positive. Didn't read the article, so unsure if it's 19 or another strain that's known to affect animals already. ?

Don't you need N95 masks for COVID19?

How old is she and, if you know, how old is the father? That might change things a little bit... Doing a quick run through of my School Nursing textbook, it looks like you may be more correct, depending on the state where you live. It says, "Severa...

Getting these for the nurses in my district for Nurse's Day!

I get to do announcements when our principal will be out in the morning. The first time we made a contest out of it...had the kids try to guess who it was. My daughter got it right.

If mom is the one wanting him to do this I don't even know that I'd necessarily need something from the doctor, but I could be wrong.

Yes... Plus - my shoe broke, can you fix it? I'm not a cobbler. My glasses broke, can you fix them? Probably not (in my head...I bet your teacher has tape upstairs, too). All sorts of things. On one hand I view it as job security, but on the ot...

And they didn't think that was important to tell you?!?!?!?!?

1. I'm still more worried about influenza at this point. It's hit our area HARD! I've seen articles in the last day that say we need to prepare in the US for it to be a bigger deal, but I'm not worried yet. I just keep telling everyone the same s...

We have a pool of 5 or 6 that we usually contact ourselves if we're able. We can have our principal call the district sub coordinator to do it if we're not able or up to it. If I'm feeling crummy in the evening, I usually touch base with a couple o...

Who is your designee if not the secretary?

I meet with classroom teachers and discuss their specific students. We use PowerSchool and there is a medical indicator next to the student's name. As new students come in I either email, call, or meet with them again. But I only have 15 teachers....

Even if you have an hourly checkoff, that's a lot of time in between when something could potentially happen. She has GOT to know that she needs to find her teacher, or ask a kid to get the teacher - first step of the plan. If she and parents are O...

Is home-bound instruction an option until he's out of the cast?

My first order of the year is pretty big. I always leave enough of my budget (towards the end of school, to fill holes I missed) to place a large enough order for free shipping. I hate paying shipping. Are there other nurses in your district that ...

Your admin needs to absolutely step into the middle here (literally) and tell this woman that her behavior will not be tolerated. I'd even go so far as to tell her that next time they will call the SRO or local police to have her removed from the pr...

Do you have much of a choice? I've had a couple times where it's been a couple of hours. I call all contacts and hope for the best but sometimes it is a problem. OK... That would annoy me.

Normally, our "policy" is that kids are to be home for 24 hours after their last episode of vomiting/diarrhea. But, of course, there are exceptions to every rule...we have a number of kids who get motion sick on the bus, kids on spinny things at rec...

Waiting for what? Does it really take that long to get an appointment or is she waiting for it to really get bad (eyeroll)? Having worked in a doctor's office, anytime we got a referral from a doctor that bumped them up to the front of the line. ...

I have a big bottle of ibuprofen & acetaminophen pills and liquid diphenhydramine. I got the pills with the staff in mind, but I do use them if kids can swallow pills. The diphenhydramine is primarily intended for the kids but staff has used it...

Oh yeah... I'm only paid during the school year. I get three personal days, six sick days (I think) and a little bit of family illness time that roll into an "emergency leave" bank if I don't use them. I'm in the state retirement fund and my insura...

I'm hourly. I do get some holidays paid.

I know we've talked about this before, but I'm not having any luck with searching... My general thought is that it's awkward for me to have the first conversation with a kid who I have little to no relationship with. My kids are K-3rd...so not usual...

No way would I do it without the district lawyer being there. What do they think you can tell them anyways? You can't tell them about visits, and I wouldn't give my opinion on anything even if I did think the kid would be better off with one or the...

Oh I've gotta bookmark this. People always laugh about me questioning kids about poop.