Shellaaay10x

I remember in nursing school to always check the Md order and the mar before patient administration just in case orders change. It has been a while since I did med admin like this, since I am a school nurse and med pass is quite different. Lol

Welcome to school nursing! You'll have the little snowflakes that come in because of a hangnail and you'll have ones that were playing basketball and hit their head right on the concrete! Kids are so much fun!

I just meant that everyone should be treated equally. Just like the OP stated "I was never treated as a lesser equal" compared to the RNs she has worked for. I was just stating my personal previous experience as a uap which unfortunately there were some nurses that acted superior to us while there were others that treated us kindly and with respect. Like I said, she is in the supervisory role and since she is licensed she has taken over some responsibility- esp over somebody else that is unlicensed. So it's a shame that their working relationship together is not so ideal. Everyone should work as a TEAM.

I don't know how to help you there unless you seriously sit him down and talk with him about how important you need your sleep. I used to work 6pm-630 am not getting home until 7 then finally falling asleep around 8. My husband used to ALWAYS wake me up around 1130-12 thinking that missing lunch was such a big deal. Then I wouldn't be able to go back to sleep until 2-3 but I'd have to wake up around 4 to leave to get ready for work. (Traffic is bad in the Bay Area). It wasn't until he got a job working night shift where he started to understand how sleep deprived I was! He wouldn't even work a 12 hr shift and I would let that man sleep for 8 hrs not bother him at all for anything and once he wakes up he's the grinch. But that's when he realized and said "I don't know how you did this, maybe I should've let you sleep longer" lol ya think?!

Yikes 106gm?!?!?! Are you sure? I'm just asking because my t1d got a beef burger from the school and the nutrional list they sent us the carbs said "100". We had to ask the lady who is in charge of all this and they actually labeled it totally wrong. sure does sucks.

The one thing I get nervous about during this time is all the class parties with the diabetics wanting to eat every sugary thing they get their hands on while the teachers don't let us know until like 30 min before the party!!!! Drives me crazy! Other than that we have a week long break and I'm glad to be out! Happy thanksgiving break y'all!!!

I've gotten yelled at by parents who "swore they turned the papers in" (dental/chdp- which I never received),who's daughters' "eyes were swollen" (no redness or swelling just slightly irritated from RUBBING THEM). Then I have teachers that send their kids with their belongings ready to go home when they have no temp at all, just seems a little "tired in class." Are you kidding me? Then when I send them back they decide to call the parent. Seriously. I know you have your masters in teaching but did you pass your nclex and get your nursing license? I think not. Let me do my job while you do yours!

I try my best to leave on time to pick up my daughter from school. I'm lucky that my job allows me to do that.

The whole thing was off. The wrap and the splint. I put the splint back on (which stabilized finger already) but I did not want to wrap it, which was previously wrapped in a coband-like bandage. (The mom was calling it "tape"). Elastic bandage is the same thing I feel...but yes I just did not want to wrap it because I wanted somebody knowledgeable of injury to come look at it and plus of the policy we have about wraps, esp if I have no documentation whatsoever on this poor little girls finger. Mom worked at the high school down the street. I really don't understand why she had to talk to me in that manner. Lol

I only went into the office 3x my whole school career, and that was senior high when I was dx with mono. I had a doc's note stating whenever I was tired I was free to go in and rest. it was boring and I would just return to class. LOL!

Of course I would not just send her on her way without doing anything, that is why I called the parent up to come reapply it. No way I would be aware of something and not do anything about it. We had applied the splint back on her finger, I just did not want to rewrap. This student also had full rom, but I still wanted somebody who was knowledgeable of her injury to come and take a look. If she came in uncomfortable, fractured and needed first aid care of course I would have done something to stabilize said finger and I still would have called parent! I understand that may be basic training for her, but the way she acted I believe was out of order. i have no problem re applying a wrap if I had an order/if it was obviously too tight or was not being kept in place. We have a policy for not using wraps - unless regards to first aid tx - and I would have informed my supervisor (which I always do, and did also with this case). This is the first time I had experienced this where a student came in with a splint off her finger, specifically said the "doctor applied it." if she was athletic director she should have known to provide proper documentation of her daughter's finger, especially if it required any limitations, how long she may have this for, etc. Thank you all for the insight!

I know, I know!

Thanks everybody for your input! I'm guessing everyone here would have rewrapped it...lol!

I looked deeper into the situation and apparently that "athletic director" was the former "athletic trainer" for the high school. But I am not an athletic trainer, so no, I still would have not re applied the splint. Considering the fact that the daughter told me that "her cast came off" and she told me her "doctor was the one that applied it". I'd rather have called the parent. I was also going through my districts policies on ace bandages and other wraps, and unless it was for initial tx for a "suspected fracture" we are to not use wraps or ace bandages, because it would seem as if we are diagnosing a client to have to use one. One of our CN's can't even apply one, and she's a nurse practitioner. I understand where you are coming from for what you would have done, I think the difference is that you have that training and I do not. Hence why we would have dealt with it differently. It's nice to hear another point of view. Maybe that's why she was so irritated. I still don't like how she tried to tell me how to do my job and she knows my "scope of practice." I have a license to keep, and I'm not going to lose it because I had applied a wrap wrong. If I don't have a doctors order, I won't do it. It's different from working in the hospital vs public schools. Lots of differences... My district nurse talked to her, and the mom is bringing a doctors note on Thursday. She also told me I did the right thing. Yay!

Exactly! These directors are not medical doctors, and do not have medical background in order to make these calls. I wasn't even mad at her yelling at me about the "tape" I was just felt a little disrespected and offended that she said she "knows my scope of practice" and goes on to try to tell me how I can do my job. She clearly does NOT know, because we wouldn't have had that conversation! Totally appalled and she lost my respect. Don't care if she's the athletic director, I have a license and I'm not going to lose it because of her!