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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 s...

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 m...

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...

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! Oth...

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...

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.

Hi everybody, I work for an elementary school as one of the support nurses. today a student came in with her finger splint off wrapped in coband/some sort of elastic wrap tape. We have no documentation/doctor's note whatsoever about her having a spli...

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 th...

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 ...

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 da...

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...

I work in California in the Bay Area. It's great I work for 2 different schools. I give medications to the students that have them especially those with diabetes. We deal with everything. Sending notices to classrooms if there's an outbreak (usually ...

I work as a school support nurse. Those who know me know that I am a nurse. Many of the support nurses are LVNs or RNs, and when I started, my supervisor (the credentialed nurse) made sure to let everybody know that I am a REAL NURSE, not a health ai...

I am a lvn but a nurse regardless. I am not a RN. I did my medical assisting first to get my foot in the door, and I learned many valuable things. I worked in an outpatient surgery center and was cross trained in both preop and post op, helping along...

I have a smart *ass* student that thinks he has the privilege to walk into my office whenever he wants and call his mom when he says he's not feeling well (his mom subs sometimes.) he came in once with a nosebleed and said " I know how to take care o...

Today! Monday! I had about 16 students come in, all complaining of stomach aches. I literally had 9 students all at one time which I had to give a whole lecture about "if I do not have to call an ambulance, and you are talking to each other then you ...

Ugh I hate that! When a child comes into my office saying they feel sick, I usually ask if their parents know and what they said. Some of them come in, totally fine and the first thing they say is "I'm not feeling good can I call my parents?" I usual...

I am a lvn here in the Bay Area and I work as a support nurse under what they call the credentialed nurses. The credentialed nurses are the ones that take care of the iep's, screenings, etc. I work under the credentialed nurse, which is in charge of ...

To OP: I am an lvn and I am fairly new one. I worked at a surgery center as a medical assistant along with other nurses and I hated it. I then went back to school to become an lvn. I wanted to go back and eventually get my RN and bsn because I want t...

Yes they would help. @vanillabean- this is what I am referring to. I did not know how to use the quote until you told me to. Thanks.