TGIF

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This has been the longest week ever!!! I need Thanksgiving Break. Just heard the announcement "Please release Mr.__________________ 5th period class to the cafeteria. You guessed it, field trip I knew nothing about. And at this late hour, his problem and not mine!!!

And passes - I swear I want to kill these teachers. How hard is it to fill out a darn pass?? Especially when we are doing tardy freezes randomly this week.

Or they can complete a pass with every single box checked under symptoms with a diagnosis and treatment plan written and don't forget the frowny face!!! However, they cannot write the kid's name ant what time they left class.

TGIF, ladies and gents. Enjoy your 3 day weekend!

Thanks for the support. You are all like a good bra.

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Specializes in Home Health,Dialysis, MDS, School Nurse.

I long for a 3 day weekend! While our kids are off on Monday, we get to have Teacher Inservice. Yippee. At least I don't have to wake my kids up, so I get about an extra hour of sleep!

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Cafe serves slushy's off/on and the boys decided to stick their finger in the frozen slushy for over 15 minutes. This kid ended up with frostbite. Painful lesson to learn.

Some of my students are going to get frostbite from the 14 pound ice bags with no barrier that my coaches put on ther for 50 minutes. Told the coaches 500 hundred times proper use of ice.

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TGIF, ladies and gents. Enjoy your 3 day weekend!

Thanks for the support. You are all like a good bra.

It was Home Coming Week here; the games are tonight.

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Specializes in DD, PD/Agency Peds, School Sites.

Last Friday with this incredibly frustrating district. Yippeee! Hope you all have a fabulous day, followed by a peaceful weekend, but have some fun as well.

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Where ya going, NorCalMimi?

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Specializes in DD, PD/Agency Peds, School Sites.
Where ya going, NorCalMimi?

Still working at school sites, but not as a district employee. I'm taking a full time position at an elementary school closer to home until they find me something even closer! It's through an agency I've been with before, who treats me like a top tier LVN, and now they are matching my salary. It's awesome. This district treats us like warm bodies. They moved me from a position I absolutely loved, replaced me with a non-licensed person (e-gads), and stuck me in a school with issues that were beyond my scope of practice. I got out of there as fast as I could to an open high school spot, but I knew I'd need to quit. That's not how I roll. One phone call...and boom, matched salary, better job, better location.

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NorCalMimi - I'm in Northern CA too. My last Friday will be in a couple of weeks.

Just staying with my hospice job. Looking forward to that.

Did a bunch of H&V's today. Had a kid who was hysterical in the lunchroom at one point - went in to check him out. He couldn't get the packet of ranch dressing (for the pizza) open so he slammed it on the table, it burst open, and ranch dressing got into his right eye. I guess the "yard duty" aide at first came over chastising him for doing something wrong instead of helping him out with the stinging in his eye. By the time I got there he was ranting "I'm never going to eat again". He wouldn't let me look at his eye, he wouldn't let me rinse it out with sterile water, he wouldn't go rinse it out himself. He just cried. I told him the tears would clean his eye out and he ended up stopping crying and went out to play

Sheesh . . . . . .let's punish the kid first. He's always in trouble - he is rambunctious and talkative. All day long, he's in trouble.

SMH :no:

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One more hour, one more hour, one more hour....

This morning a parent called in for his daughter saying that she came home from school yesterday crying, in pain and had a broken finger from first hour PE. I immediately checked my records to see if I recorded a visit with her- nope. So I emailed the PE teacher who emailed back that the student asked to run her hand under cold water but not to come see me. So I felt better knowing that I didn't send out a broken finger (although these things happen, I've done it several times).

So this afternoon the dad comes in to ask about how we let this happen, not being mean, but assertive. Luckily, I had already clued in my principal so she was not taken off guard. The student came in and insisted that she had gone to the nurse's office and been given an ice pack. So I start second guessing myself, like maybe I had forgotten to log her visit in my computer system. And I usually reassess when the kids bring the ice packs back. The girl was getting upset and said she didn't know who was in the office when she got the ice pack and she wasn't sure it was me (there would be no one else in my office at that time). She finally broke down once the principal said they could pull up the video footage since we have cameras in all our hallways, so we could see if she left during PE and came to my office.

Ug! The parents were nice but in a "you better have a good explanation" way. And we didn't want to call the girl a liar... but I feel better knowing that I didn't brush her off. I feel bad that she spent the whole day in pain though! Poor girl- I don't know why she didn't come to me all day!

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The video thing was a little scary. :bag:

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The video thing was a little scary. :bag:

Big Brother is watching

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Specializes in Med-surg, school nursing..

This reminds me of a student I had... My grandmother called me one night asking "What happened to Johnny at school today?!" Apparently her prayer chain had called and said Johnny-a friends son-was taken to the hospital because he fell as school. After telling her that I couldn't give her any information I started freaking out thinking "Holy crap, what happened to Johnny at school today?!" So I looked him up, no documentation. Got to school the next morning and found out he had fallen at recess, told no one, and even though he was falling asleep in class his teacher did not see the need to send him to the nurse... Final answer, skull fracture, and spent two days in the ICU. Luckily he told mom that he never told anyone that he fell so there was no implication of negligence. So you'll send a kid to me for a two week old itchy bug bite, but not a lethargic child???

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