Amethya

Cardiology, School Nursing, General

CMA for the past 5 years, working at a school for the past 4 years.

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    What is your Nursing Super Power?

    Amethya replied to adventure_rn's topic in General Nursing

    I can make kids trust me easily and calm them down. I use my pokemon, anime, manga hobbies and they love to talk to me about issues and basically
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    Diabetes question

    Amethya replied to Amethya's topic in School

    I do ask the mother, she tells me the carb count, but I was wondering if she maybe counting
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    Should I Stay or Should I Go?

    Amethya replied to HealSpec's topic in Psychiatric

    Hello! Not a nurse, but I'm a CMA. I have ADD-I type and I had it since I was 9. I never took medications, and I did struggle a lot in school, but I got older and I got used to it and used it with my...
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    Ears and Throats!

    Amethya replied to River Song, RN's topic in School

    Not a nurse, but I was trained on how to know the difference with throats and how they look if the person is sick, same with ears. I do that, just to tell the parent of my findings. "You're child is...
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    parents won't pick up sick kid!

    Amethya replied to nursekoll's topic in School

    These reasons is why I made a letter in the beginning of the year to the parents stating I will be calling them for anything and that these are the rules that the student handbook says that if the...
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    Diabetes question

    Amethya replied to Amethya's topic in School

    As I said, he's on the OmniPod, which automatically calculates what he's eating. He does bring homemade lunches sometimes, but that's harder to calculate than a lunchable that he brings with the carbs...
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    Proud moment today!

    Amethya replied to ohiobobcat's topic in School

    I had a girl in the camp I worked at doing her growth hormone shot and did herself for the first time there and was so happy when she did. We gave her chocolate. So proud of him! Good for
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    parents won't pick up sick kid!

    Amethya replied to nursekoll's topic in School

    I hate the phone numbers that are out of service or their voicemail isn't set up. It's barely the first week of school for us and they put these on the contact list for some reason. I do call them a...
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    If your school isn't all free/reduced meals...

    Amethya replied to SaltineQueen's topic in School

    Our school has Free/Reduced lunch, but since Harvey, we been giving Free lunch to everyone until the 30th. My kids school is doing the same thing, but when I went to their school district they will...
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    Old Dude or other Tx nurses...is it true?

    Amethya replied to SaltineQueen's topic in School

    I been doing this since day one. But yeah it's a law
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    How do your students address you?

    Amethya replied to River Song, RN's topic in School

    I'm called Ms. Last name, but even though I'm not the nurse, and no matter how many times I corrected kids, they call me the nurse or the doctor. I always introduce myself to the parents as the...
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    How do you even get a job as a school nurse?

    Amethya replied to melis1970's topic in School

    Oh no not that kinds of questions, more like the questions that come up on interviews a lot, like "What is your strength and
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    Diabetes question

    Amethya replied to Amethya's topic in School

    he's a 4th grader and he's been high all the time last year, so when he came back, I believe it did because the machine didn't pick up on the 240 BG and accepted it as normal, which is unusual for it...
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    CPS/Child Abuse Protocol

    Amethya replied to mslove's topic in School

    I was told to do the reporting if I see the abuse, and also the teacher if she sees it
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    parents won't pick up sick kid!

    Amethya replied to nursekoll's topic in School

    I only had one student with this issue, and took the whole day for his mom to get her. The mother came in later crying, saying sorry because she couldn't get off work. I got it and told her it's...
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    YOUR Childhood School Nurse memories

    Amethya replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    I wasn't a frequent flier, I only went when I had to, because I knew that my parents were too busy to come get me. I do remember my middle school nurse, which was the only time I went to see her...
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    Small Vent

    Amethya replied to WineRN's topic in School

    I get you. I haven't had any issues that bad, but I have one child who had a really bad nose bleeds sometimes and I would call her mother and she just told me, "She does it on purpose, she knows how...
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    How do you even get a job as a school nurse?

    Amethya replied to melis1970's topic in School

    Depends on the school. Mine is a Public Charter School, so they don't even hire RNs, just CMAs and LVNs. I just got hired out of either pure luck or they were extremely desperate for someone. I got...
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    School Nurse Documentation

    Amethya replied to ljantzi's topic in School

    I have completely different instructions, as such because I'm just a CMA, not an RN or LVN. I call parents and document EVERYTHING, doesn't matter what is for. If it's a small bandaid, I don't say...
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    New student with T1D- mom no-showing to our meetings

    Amethya replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    I had the same issue in my first year and ONLY TD-1 at our school. I had issues and meetings with mother, but after that we are pratically good friends, she and I communicate a lot especially when it...
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    Why do we do codes?

    Amethya replied to scrubs0204's topic in General Nursing

    Can you imagine how it would be if we didn't? "WE HAVE PATIENT SMITH DYING IN ROOM 10! HURRY!" "UM... PATIENT JONES IS HAVING AN HEART ATTACK IN ROOM 8, FYI" "SO... I NEED A DOCTOR IN ROOM 34, MY...
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    Hurricane Irma

    Amethya replied to GetBackToClassRN's topic in School

    It may sound useless, but if you can save your student's files, do it! I was in Hurricane Harvey, thankfully my home was safe, our school was mildly flooded, but I put everything 1 foot off the floor...
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    Can't help but laugh...

    Amethya replied to grammy1's topic in School

    Well, I can kinda agree with the silly idea, but I can also explain that as well. When I was 8 I got into a bicycle accident, I was sitting on the top handlebars and my foot got caught in the wheel....
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    New student with T1D- mom no-showing to our meetings

    Amethya replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    We keep bothering for responses. If this child needs a 504, we keep asking for the parent's cooperation and eventually we have a
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    When parents don't read carefully

    Amethya replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    I just got a parent who wrote her kid was allergic to pork and said, it was "life threatening" and when I asked her she said he's not allergic to it, it's just a dietary choice they do at home, they...