Amethya

Cardiology, School Nursing, General

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

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    Need Opinions!

    Amethya replied to NurseBeans's topic in School

    OOOh Trust me! I gotten some parents like this and it was difficult for a while. At first it was the diabetic mom and her son who's sugar would not go down! (We are good friends now.) Then it was this...
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    Kids doing this on purpose?

    Amethya posted a topic in School

    I have had some kids that done things on purpose, knowing they will get hurt, then getting hurt and coming to me that they got hurt. Makes me question their common sense. Last time was the "Andy...
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    Forged Doctor's Note

    Amethya posted a topic in School

    So a parent has been having problems with our school because small things, which is him wearing a thicker jacket and she wanting me to give him more of his puffs than he needs. (Asthma). I haven't...
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    School Nurse Salary?

    Amethya replied to kegreat's topic in School

    CMA TX $14/hr I have 1 1/2 years of experience in offices, but only 6 months experience in a school
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    Need Opinions!

    Amethya replied to NurseBeans's topic in School

    I tend to call only for fever, vomiting and other things. But I do call parents all the time if the child comes in saying they feel bad or if they come twice for the same thing. I do it so I cover my...
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    I can't get "poop" taste out of my mouth?

    Amethya replied to Philly85's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't know Cancer had a scent. I was wondering, can anyone describe that to
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    Emergency Calls- How long do we wait?

    Amethya replied to Amethya's topic in School

    As of now, I still haven't received a medical form to have the inhaler here, and I already explained that to mother and child. Hopefully it's only PRN, but I wasn't told anything yet. I'm going to...
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    Emergency Calls- How long do we wait?

    Amethya posted a topic in School

    We had this child with respiratory problems, and could not breathe. Under protocol, we call parents first and let them know what's going on. Mom didn't answer, so I called grandma. Grandma came, and...
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    Staff resistant to change - why?

    Amethya replied to Kim2020's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Mine was mostly, the staff was resistant in a new person and different hobbies. All the girls in the office knew each other for years, so when I came in I was the new person in the last 2 years. I...
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    Summer camps interviews

    Amethya replied to Amethya's topic in School

    What I read in their description is that there are 7-9 nurses or nurses assistants, one main nurse, one doctor and a manager. So It sounds good to me. I checked and they are
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    Summer camps interviews

    Amethya replied to Amethya's topic in School

    What kind questions do you think they'll
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    Migraines

    Amethya replied to cooties_are_real's topic in School

    OH yeah I get those A LOT! I tend to watch them and talk to them. If they don't want to talk and just sleep, it's obvious they aren't feeling well. Some of them just want to get out of class and talk...
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    ESL student and Family

    Amethya replied to WineRN's topic in School

    Do you have anyone in staff that can speak their language? When I have to deal with this, I either ask the student to translate for me or if it's spanish I do it myself (I'm bilingual), but you can...
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    What to do this summer...

    Amethya replied to kidzcare's topic in School

    Does anyone know if there's a camp hiring Medical Assistants? I did that website too, but I wanted to make sure there's other places I can
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    Kids doing this on purpose?

    Amethya replied to Amethya's topic in School

    I do agree on this. I had this girl just recently been sent to me by the teacher. I had talked to the teacher earlier at lunch about the student, she had these multiple scratches on her R forearm,...
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    What should I do in this situation?

    Amethya replied to Amethya's topic in School

    It was tobacco, I checked. I did explain to the children this but you know 8th grader, being 8th graders, just either ignored me or something. The only ones who did listen to my lecture were the kids...
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    What should I do in this situation?

    Amethya posted a topic in School

    So I have an interesting thing that happened today. So I got two students come in the same time, from the same class. They start to tell me that this girl in class started to smoke during class. I was...
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    What to do this summer...

    Amethya replied to kidzcare's topic in School

    I couldn't find that
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    Emergency Notifications

    Amethya replied to KeeperOfTheIceRN's topic in School

    I'm not sure what we have, but we have one too. If there's an emergency or something in that sense, we let the parents know afterwards with a mass phone call. And as well texts and
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    Teachers undermining your decision/going behind your back and sending kids home

    Amethya replied to lovely07's topic in School

    Do you have a school nurse manager for the nurses in your district? I had some issues in the beginning of the year and while we are not nurses, but medical assistants, we have this school manager for...
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    Kids doing this on purpose?

    Amethya replied to Amethya's topic in School

    I had this issue too but not that severe. I got called to the front and the mom and student were there. I remember faces easily when they come to my office, but not names. So I never seen her before...
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    ADHD just not understood

    Amethya replied to NurseBeans's topic in School

    I know that feeling. I have a student who's like that, and as someone who has ADD, I know how he feels being treated like that with the teacher unable to understand how to work with him. I became his...
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    July Only Camps

    Amethya replied to Jedrnurse's topic in Camp

    Anything for CMA, Medical
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    I can't get "poop" taste out of my mouth?

    Amethya replied to Philly85's topic in General Nursing

    No problem! I'm not an RN, but I have some knowledge of some cardiology stuff, so I can relay as much as I can on that.
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    Kids doing this on purpose?

    Amethya replied to Amethya's topic in School

    I have a doozy. So this student decided to bring those bambozzle beans (I'm not sure if I spelled it right). The ones that there's that challenge that you eat it and you might get something gross or...