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  1. MrNurse(x2)

    What computer program do you use?

    Awaiting arrival of SNAP. I use EPIC at the hospital and it looks almost identical. We have Engrade for the school and they don't have a health
  2. MrNurse(x2)

    Immunizations

    I only have 25 to screen, but after 4 I realized no one has updated vac info. I sent a mass email to that group of parents making them aware it is due and I need
  3. MrNurse(x2)

    I can't believe I have a "c'mon" already today!

    Our school would never go with this, the kids are physically close every morning and literally head to head at
  4. MrNurse(x2)

    I can't believe I have a "c'mon" already today!

    Sad, doesn't sound like any education would stick. Hopefully she can break the cycle of ignorance and get a decent
  5. MrNurse(x2)

    Sometimes more teachers than kids come to see me

    She posted a followup
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    I can't believe I have a "c'mon" already today!

    My counselor hat on today. Anxious kid comes in at end of lunch for Pepto, comes back 10 minutes later bawling that he has to go home. Mom comes to school to try and talk him down, well we know at...
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    I can't believe I have a "c'mon" already today!

    Quite 19th century of them. I guess if you don't want to deal with it at all. Wonder if she is getting them from
  8. MrNurse(x2)

    Never a dull moment

    With a rate like that she should have at least been overnight
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    Random Thoughts: School Nurses

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    I can't believe I have a "c'mon" already today!

    Mylan offers 2 epi-pen packs yearly to schools, go to their website and find out how to get them. They also replace any you should
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    Random Thoughts: School Nurses

    I should have went with XYRN, but my brain wasn't working that
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    Random Thoughts: School Nurses

    Why I capitalized the XY, AN said they can change me back to
  13. MrNurse(x2)

    Stranger in a strange land

    My wife and I were discussing how we are perceived in the school by the teaching staff. I had often heard that in many respects, teachers, having really never having to commit to a full time job, are...
  14. MrNurse(x2)

    Stranger in a strange land

    I work with 8 teachers, with specials, 14 and 3 administrators. It seems to be getting better, but still on the
  15. MrNurse(x2)

    Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    I work post op OHS. We occasionally have pts with post op confusion called pump head. Change of shift on a Friday evening, lots of visitors up and down the halls and down the hall comes a 5'4" tall...
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    What "hats" do you wear at work?

    I do attendance as well as my nursing duties. Feel attendance does kind of fall under nursing, trending absences, seeing why kids are out. I am now looking for pink eye in one class because I got an...
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    Never a dull moment

    Hope she is OK. With a BP like that she has more treatment options, so hopefully a quick hospitalization for her. Good pick
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    School nurse delays giving epi pen

    Up to age 12, 1/2 tab is standard, but truthfully, it is hard to OD Benadryl with common doses
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    School nurse delays giving epi pen

    Not so much cray-cray as protective. Parents of chronic illness kids are hyper-vigilant when it comes to their kids, we kinda expect it from
  20. MrNurse(x2)

    frequent vomiting, any ideas?

    My son's best friend, a former student, has it, as well as her brother. Sad. Hopeful they will grow out of
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    frequent vomiting, any ideas?

    May be premature, but it could be "abdominal migraines". These kids can vomit 20 times daily. It is often seen as psychosomatic. Prescribing Imitrex is a way to rule it out. Anxiety is a common...
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    Hello Fellow School Nurses !

    Glad you could reset yours, I had to create a new profile because it just would not reset. Welcome back to the
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    School nurse delays giving epi pen

    We are assuming this student is being entirely transparent in her recollection. I tend to listen to the professional first, as they are less apt to be distorted by emotion, than the principals in the...
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    School nurse delays giving epi pen

    I drop pressure with epi eye drops, I can only imagine what IM would do to me. Respiratory arrest is definitely worse than
  25. MrNurse(x2)

    First seizures at school

    No! We are not going there! STOP