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 ???
The user name, evolvingrn. Does this possibly suggest that this person isn't an RN yet? I am not being mean, I promise. Just food for thought.
She says she is a provider, I respect her opinion in her environment. Her experience says 1+, still evolving in her nursing career. Hard for newbies to see through filters they haven't developed yet. Not being judgmental, just looking back on a few decades of new nurses.
I think every area of nursing comes with it's own protocols and rules that can sometimes seem to impede giving good nursing care; some were referenced here, and others in the thread re: Assisted Living and straight caths and other issues in Home Health and in Private Duty Nursing.
It can be hard to understand this all when we don't have experience in these areas - especially people like me who only have nursing experience in acute settings.
That doesn't mean these protocols shouldn't exist, just that difficulties and misunderstandings may arise from time to time.
She says she is a provider, I respect her opinion in her environment. Her experience says 1+, still evolving in her nursing career. Hard for newbies to see through filters they haven't developed yet. Not being judgmental, just looking back on a few decades of new nurses.
You hit the proverbial nail right on the proverbial head, Mr. We're offering this horse water; we can't make it drink.
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.............
OK, I'm back. I am not a school nurse. I have more confidence in kids than you do. Inflammatory, not really, just a different perspective. I will just leave at that.
OK, I'm back. I am not a school nurse. I have more confidence in kids than you do. Inflammatory, not really, just a different perspective. I will just leave at that.
Why just leave it at that? Please share your perspective. As I said before, you might learn something, we might learn something, maybe we'll just disagree. As they say in basketball, you miss 100%of the shots you don't take.
OK, I'm back. I am not a school nurse. I have more confidence in kids than you do. Inflammatory, not really, just a different perspective. I will just leave at that.
I had confidence in kids until I became a SN.
Now I know they will lose their heads of not attached to their bodies.
Why just leave it at that? Please share your perspective. As I said before, you might learn something, we might learn something, maybe we'll just disagree. As they say in basketball, you miss 100%of the shots you don't take.
She has more confidence in kids than we do.
She's not going to take a shot because she won't be able to catch the rebound. She doesn't want to play.
I know you are being nice. Sorry to hijack that, OldDude.
I'm not worried about her thoughts, I'm worried about her kid possibly forgetting his inhaler.
We explained our rationale and the response is we have no confidence in kids.
I suck at basketball anyway. I'm too short. I'm out.
It is not that we don't have confidence in our kids, it is that we are there to protect them. We are talking about little people whose brain hasn't even developed rational thinking yet. They do the milk challenge, hot chip challenge, and hot pepper challenge just because their friends are. What do you think is going to stop them from doing an "inhaler" challenge just because someone has an inhaler in with them. I work in an elementary, and there has not been one physician yet who has signed off on a self carry form. These kids are not developed mentally to handle that responsibility.
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She says she is a provider, I respect her opinion in her environment. Her experience says 1+, still evolving in her nursing career. Hard for newbies to see through filters they haven't developed yet. Not being judgmental, just looking back on a few decades of new nurses.