Topics About 'School Kids'.

Happy Monday! Already today I have seen a kinder that reports being up at 10pm and a 3rd grader up at 4am watching Youtube! Of course they have a headache! Anyone have a good handout with sleep education for children?

Had a kid bring his wet, bloody tooth and plop it right on my desk. C'mon now! Or the kid that did running knee slide into my office. C'mon now! The ones old enough to cover their mouths but choose to cough right in your face inst...

While driving somewhere today, a question came upon me and I wanted to run it past you guy's to see how you feel about this. I am an elementary school nurse and will be starting my 17th year. I have had so many times where the students want to give m...

Don't you just love it when you get that complaint? I had a 3rd-grade kiddo a couple of weeks ago tell me "It feels like a chunk of my heart fell off into my chest," when describing chest pain he was having. Vitals were all WNL, but I did hear an i...

Just had a girl with 102 temp crying because she wanted to stay in school. She has midterm review today and a basketball game tomorrow. She was in earlier, afebrile, now with shaking chills. I'm suspecting flu. A nice, sweet involved kid who never co...

As New York’s Rockland County grapples with a large and lengthy outbreak of measles, a group of anti-vaccine parents sued officials for temporarily barring their unvaccinated children from school—and the county is not having it. https://arstechnica.c...

Where are your 5th graders with diabetes at in the grand scheme of "total dependent care to complete self care?" I have a 5th grade student who is almost exclusively dependent for care (my first year with them). They've been diagnosed for at least 4 ...