I had mailed asthma care plan to this particular parent who's daughter has asthma.
This is the care plan that the physician is to fill out and return to the clinic. Parents are supposed to bring an inhaler in so that we have it while kid is in school.
This care plan came in about a month ago, but no inhaler.
I just got off of the phone with the Mother. I told her that the order is here, and we are just awaiting the inhaler.
Mother states: Oh.... I thought the doctor would send you the inhaler too. What ???
This thread shows exactly how non-school nurses have no clue about our unique environment. evolvingrn and Laurie52 come on here with their acute care perspectives, which sound logical in the rest of ANland, but are absurd here. And like the rest of ANland, they come on, make inflammatory statements and are never heard from again.............
What do you want me to say.... You guys still make zero sense to me. So I just roll my eyes and move on. Your threads pop up in the main area so you will get nurses from more traditional backgrounds reading your posts..
What do you want me to say.... You guys still make zero sense to me. So I just roll my eyes and move on. Your threads pop up in the main area so you will get nurses from more traditional backgrounds reading your posts..
Hey, don't just roll your eyes and move on. We've offered our perspective in response to your post. Please share your rationale and perspective. Maybe we can learn something from you and vice versa; maybe we'll just end up disagreeing, and that's OK, but at least lets explore the dialogue. Whadda ya say?
What do you want me to say.... You guys still make zero sense to me. So I just roll my eyes and move on. Your threads pop up in the main area so you will get nurses from more traditional backgrounds reading your posts..
I, too, agreed that zero tolerance was illogical. I now deal with parents, most of whom are educated, as I am in a private school, who do some of the most illogical things in regards to their health. Until you become the ONLY medical person in an environment, it is hard to insert yourself into our world. To come off the main site and not see the audience is either myopic (which, you are evolving, so I doubt) or arrogant. Our world involves educators and we are here for triage. For kids to run around taking meds and puffs off their inhalers puts us in a precarious position of being uninformed when things escalate. Elementary students, as shown here, are ill equipped to manage their own inhalers; I have coached my middle schoolers who have prn inhalers in my office. We try to maintain a pretty light hearted environment here, a stark contrast to the rest of AllNurses, so it is a little shocking when non-school nurses come in. The thing that sticks out for me is, when I go on general discussion and find I was wrong, I acknowledge, not seeing that here.
Hey, don't just roll your eyes and move on. We've offered our perspective in response to your post. Please share your rationale and perspective. Maybe we can learn something from you and vice versa; maybe we'll just end up disagreeing, and that's OK, but at least lets explore the dialogue. Whadda ya say?
Well said! It's hard to explain this area of nursing to anyone who has not worked in this environment, it's so very different from other specialties.
What do you want me to say.... You guys still make zero sense to me. So I just roll my eyes and move on. Your threads pop up in the main area so you will get nurses from more traditional backgrounds reading your posts..
Really??? You can't see the validity of any of our points about school-aged children and their inhalers in school? I don't mind non-School Nurses coming here and commenting-I love them to see our world but if I read a post in the OR Nursing or Travel Nursing or nay other non school-based Nursing forum I don't think I'd be so quick to dismiss their protocols and practices in their nursing environment and I certainly wouldn't for a second think that I have a better handle on their jobs and how they should perform it than they do!
evolvingrn, BSN, RN
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What do you want me to say.... You guys still make zero sense to me. So I just roll my eyes and move on. Your threads pop up in the main area so you will get nurses from more traditional backgrounds reading your posts..