WyVy LPN

Alright y'all, let's get to the nitty gritty. What Sx are you excluding? Direction from our local Health Dept (OH) is to exclude for ANY symptoms, and then goes on to list eeeeverything under the sun. I mean, EVERYTHING. Congestion, runny nose, heada...

Our super (who is also my principal) told us that we have to be flexible, but I'm not sure how far I can stretch that when there are (clear as mud) guidelines to exclude for basically anything other than needing a bandaid. For my firsties it's a litt...

Thanks guys! I absolutely document everything, describe describe! Our Principal got ahold of mom yesterday and said she was nice as can be. Well that's the difference between me and an authority figure I suppose, but makes me seem like a dummy. She t...

I need an opinion on an interesting situation guys. I have a Kg student in a resource room who is normally very bubbly, however he's had a rough couple days. The day before yesterday he had a wicked cough and his aide "suggested" he had whooping coug...

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks teacher may be overreacting. I've done all I can do, but they're grasping straws. They also hunted me down five minutes after I left their room to demand I check his oxygen levels. He doesn't have any respirat...

Kinderbug: I have something in my ear. Me: what is it? Kinderbug: paper. Me: how did it get there?! Kinderbug: I was rolling it into a ball and playing with it and it just... *pointed at ear* Grabbed penlight, sure enough, it was pretty far in there....

School nurse here :) "My mom told me to come to you if I don't feel good and she would come get me." Parents, just don't ever say that.

How about parents' "so do I need to pick them up?" Well they vomited all over their desk, so probably.

Hey guys, I need some help! I started half way through the year and am doing hearing/vision rescreens. I have a first grader who was 20/20 20/50 at the beginning of the year, but I just rescreened him and he passed both. Is this a common scenario to ...

Me, on the phone: Hi this is Wyvy from the land of tiny people. I have your tiny person here who has some small red bumps on their arm that are itchy and sore that he/she said were there this AM, did you notice it before school? Guardian: Actually I'...

Glad I'm not the only one who's X-ray vision is out of order! I try to level with them by saying "if it was my son (I have a first grader) I'd have it looked at just to be on the safe side." I hate urging people to go to the Dr over some things, hig...

I have a FF teacher afraid of lice, swears her room is infested with them 24/7/365. She cracks me up. I told her you do realize after 24hrs without a host, they die, right? So when you leave Friday, they'll be dead by Monday. then I informed her that...

Elementary of 200+ kids. Saw way too many with pink, itchy, burning, watery eyes today. I need alcohol, for sanitary purposes and as a beverage. What's your protocol for conjunctivitis? Return after 24hrs on Rx or until they're sx free? Also, when sh...

I will definitely have to remember the cotton ball trick! I'm having a difficult time, like many of you from what I've collected in these forums, with teachers freaking about about allergies vs conjunctivitis. Right now, their concerns are valid. Sev...

My job description actually specifies that I am to provide medical care for students AND staff, which surprised me. :)

Anyone need to vent? Here's a place to do it. I'll start. In case you don't know me, I'm one month into this job, coming from 5yrs exp in office OB/GYN. Spoke with my district nurse today re: familiar faces from one of my kinderbug classes. After tha...

Had a parent (a teacher in a different district) call me last week because she noticed her child has been down to see me a few times since break. She wanted to make sure I didn't think it was anything serious. If only the parents of my FFs were that ...

Thanks all, I appreciate you guys (and this board!) so much. I'll look into the books mentioned. My district has two other nurses, one of which I subbed for at the beginning of the year before getting this job. She's known as Nurse Hatchet, she's a c...

Been here a month, amount of orientation: ZERO. Really feeling it today, too. Rough day, very discouraged. :/

So this afternoon I sat in on an IEP for a new preschooler. Mother sts child frequently has finger joints dislocate and would like for us, the school staff (ie ME) to fix it whenever that happens. Principal sees that as a liability and sts we need to...

Haha! Definitely not!

Wow guys, this went from zero to sixty in two seconds! Thanks all for the input! I'll run this past my district nurse, I'm definitely on the NO side of it! It's interesting that y'all say the principal isn't my boss, I've considered him to be my boss...

Private practice OB/GYN, worked there for 5yrs- 3yrs as MA, 2yrs as LPN. Loved the job and patients, hated the drama!

So since Principal is adamant that calling 911 is the answer, how would you suggest that it is unnecessary and just make a call home? What's the rationale? I'd run it past my district nurse to see what she would recommend, but I'm afraid Principal wo...

District Rep (principal was out of the building) instructed mother to get written order from doctor on what would need to be done in this event and we would review it, but I just shook my head. Since mom is comfortable doing it herself, is it inappro...