Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Supplies For The School Nurse's Office


Do you have the medical supplies you need?

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Hopefully Helpful School Nurse Tip:  After you've been a school nurse for a while you will come up with your go to supplies for your office. Be basic, Be consistent. Get what works for you and forget about the rest.

IS YOUR NURSE'S OFFICE PREPARED 

A well stocked school nurse's office is essential and necessary  for any school nurse. Since there are a variety of health scenarios that a school nurse might need to deal with on any given day, we need to be prepared for anything. Most school districts allow a certain amount of money each school year to purchase required items for your office (use it or lose it). 

ORDER WITH EASE

Most school nurse's offices are very busy. So busy in fact, that you might not realize you are running low on an item until you are almost out. Sound familiar? Two day shipping in these times can be a life saver! Check with your school district; they might have a business Amazon account which usually offers no state sales tax and free shipping. If so, you can easily request your supplies from whomever is in charge of ordering, they can order your supplies and the items will magically arrive at your school within a couple of days. If not, you can put in a request to purchase the items on your own and ask for reimbursement when the items are received; however, you might not get reimbursed for sales tax. 

SUPPLIES AVAILABLE ON AMAZON

So, I've made lists of common school nurse office supplies available for purchase on Amazon! This list isn't everything, but hopefully the most common items used on a daily basis. Hope it helps. 

PPE

BANDAGES most prefer flexible, latex free options

ICE PACK SUPPLIES

MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION

CLEANERS & SANITIZERS

THERMOMETERS

PERIOD PRODUCTS

OTHER

Monday, May 11, 2020

School Nurse Monthly Newsletters


School Nurse Newsletters

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Hopefully Helpful School Nurse Tip:  If you don't make time to do what you love, no one will make the time for you. In this DOASN blog post I realize that I love writing little newsletters, but I wonder if I'll continue to make the time to do so...
 

About six months ago I had this great idea to start posting monthly newsletters. 
They were a great creative outlet and I only wished I had "more time" to devote to them.  

Fast forward to today & we are right in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and I'm "working from home". So, sadly, I can now say I have have "more time".  However, ...

I seem to have more time, but less focus. 

More time, but less creativity.

More time, but less inspiration....

 Anyone else feel the same way?  


Regardless, below are my first few school nurse newsletters!

The School Nurse Newsletters are back on the to-do list!

I'm not sure when I'll have more time to devote to this, but at some point in time I would like to create more of these health related newsletters. 

Please comment some topics you'd like me to write about.

Handwashing UPDATED 2023


HIPAA FERPA UPDATED 2023


Asthma FEBRUARY 2020

UPDATED
The 3 Ws SEPTEMBER 2020




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Saturday, February 8, 2020

Emergency Bag for School Nurses

Emergency Bag 1/2 way update

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Hopefully Helpful School Nurse Tip: Sooner or later you will be called to a health emergency somewhere within the school. Are you ready?  What will you grab and take with you?

School Nurse Emergency Grab N Go Bags are a Hot Topic!

I know, because this topic is one of the most popular read posts for this blog!


School Nurse Emergency Bags

This topic is searched and read about a lot; I can only it means other school nurses want to be as prepared as possible for a health emergency in the school setting.

Since many times school nurse are the only medical professional within the school (and they work alone), they are curious what other school nurses carry in their emergency grab-n-go bags!  

For years I used a medical bag (similar picture below) but I'm not in love with it. I always feel like my items are unorganized and I spend valuable time searching for what I needed. So, as we finish off the second semester of this school year, I am looking for ideas and suggestions for a new emergency bag.

What type of school emergency bag do you use?




Comment what you like and what items you carry in your bag!
I have a few ideas/suggestions already but haven't purchased anything yet.

I'll let you know what I decide!
Thanks for any input...