Thursday, September 8, 2011

The Lunch Lady

Original Post 9/8/2011

Update Post 5/22/2023

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Lunch Lady Appreciation Poem

Hopefully Helpful School Nurse Tip: The school year is full of recognition days. It is nice to feel remembered and appreciated. Use this poem to help celebrate School Lunch Hero Day!

The following poem was written many years ago by a former student who promises

(or threatens, I'm not sure... ha ha) he'll return one day to be the boss!

This poem shows how much our lunch ladies (and gentleman) are appreciated!

School Lunch Hero Day is each year on the first Friday in May.

Celebrate your cafeteria crew the first Friday in May.

With them, millions of American students have warm meals and yummy snacks to eat throughout the school year.

lunch lady appreciation poem 5x7

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Friday, August 19, 2011

"Heads Up" on Concussions for The School Nurse

Hopefully Helpful School Nurse Tip: Each year thousands of student athletes are diagnosed with a concussion. These blog posts were written to help the school nurse help those students.

Concussion Facts

135,000 sports/recreation-related TBIs, including concussions, among children ages 5 to 18 are treated in US Emergency Rooms each year. (MMWR July 2007)

Athletes who have ever had one concussion are at increased risk for more concussions.

Children and teens are more likely to get a concussion and take longer to recover than adults.

FREE resources from the CDC...click here

The CDC has created free tools for youth and high school sports coaches, parents, athletes, and health care professionals that provide important information on preventing, recognizing, and responding to a concussion.

FREE Heads Up Online Training...click here

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Monday, July 11, 2011

Glucagon Training Items

Originally Written July 2011

Glucagon Training Items

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Hopefully Helpful School Nurse Tip: School nurses need to be prepared for a variety of medical emergencies on any given day. One of those potential emergencies might be related to a severe hypoglycemia episode. Are you prepared?

School Nurse Emergency Prep

I usually try to use my summer time to prepare for a great start for the upcoming school year. This summer I've put together a training sequence for all of our bus drivers on common medical emergencies. Very exciting; all of the bus drivers will receive a basic first aid power point presentation- complete with handouts and instructions on how to handle different health/medical situations that may occur during their bus route.

Also, there are a handful of drivers with students who have Type 1 Diabetes on their bus. Those drivers are getting a more in depth education on how to treat severe low blood sugar. In doing my research I've found some very useful tools that I wanted to share with the rest of you....