3 Steps To Putting Teeth Back In Children's Mouths Once upon a time there was my son...a boy now of 12 (come next week)...but a boy then of 3. This 3-year-old was bouncing on the bed we all were sitting on. “Stop that! You’re gonna get hurt (see Life is a Lawnmower)!” “Nuh-uh!” Then POW! A second later, screaming. This child
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Life Is A Lawnmower
School Nurse Version Every generation learns from the mistakes of the earlier generation and life for our children gets better and better each generation forward as they learn not to do things that cause pain and emotional discomfort. Yeah! Right! In a perfect world. Life is a Lawnmower. Why do our children do the same, stupid things we did when we were
School Nurse Guide to Stevens-Johnson Syndrome
School Nurse Guide to Stevens-Johnson Syndrome A couple of articles ago, I wrote about “grey gorilla nurses” and how every nursing “arena” needs these been-there-and-done-that kinda of nurses. We have a couple or three of those awesome school nurses at our district. Having spent 10+ years in hospice, I was one that received the calls from fellow hospice nurses asking this-and-that.
School Nurse Kevin’s 5th Grade Puberty Presentation
School Nurse Kevin's FREE Puberty PowerPoint Presentation Yesterday I taught my 5th puberty presentation this year. As a school nurse, there’s one thing I am sure of: They already know 90% of what I am presenting. But they still giggle. They giggle like a room full of 2nd grade girls when they are playing house and Barbie kisses Ken [smooch!]. It’s
School Nurse’s Guide to Henoch-Schonlein Purpura
School Nurse Guide to Henoch-Schonlein Purpura Syndrome (HSP) “Nurse Kevin, I have a little rash.” A little girl enters my office after missing a few days of school earlier in the week and is wanting me to look at a rash on her legs. And, as far as rashes go, this one was a doozie!! The rash was extensive and widespread,
School Nurse Grey Gorilla
Find Your School Nurse Grey Gorilla I am entering into my 22nd year as a nurse...and some years back (seemingly in a different life)...back in nursing school...we learned our nursing-trade basics from the best of the best of the best. These ladies were published in RN and Nursing magazines and would tell stories of the days where they would re-powder gloves
School Nurse’s Guide to Strep Throat
The School Nurse’s Guide to GAS I wanted to call this article “The School Nurse’s Guide to GAS.” But, I thought that if someone was really looking (and being serious) about strep throat that “GAS” wouldn’t be a term that would draw a school nurse to an article on Strep Throat. “GAS,” or group A streptococci, which causes bacterial pharyngitis —
School Nurse’s Guide to Celiac Disease
I do love me some bread. We usually don’t buy bread...we make it. Yes, sometimes in our breadmaker (why not?). But, a lot of the time we make it from scratch. Each Sunday, after church, our congregation shares a snack and some “community time.” I’ve noticed that on the days I bake a nice loaf of ciabatta bread and bring
School Nurse’s Guide to the Dehydrated Child
When I was a kid in school, the blissful hour was the last hour of school. It was that hour when we knew “freedom” was being counted in minutes rather than hours. Then there was Ms. Foster. Yes...Ms. Foster....who, during the last 60 seconds of the last period would mozey over to the door to “dismiss” us after the completion
School Nurse Guide to Measles – Rubeola
(MEE-zills) “Nurse Kevin, we don’t believe in immunizations; we feel that we should allow our child’s own immune system to get strong.” There are many, many different objections parents give me about immunizations, but this one was...well...I had never heard one like this before. Truth be known, why don’t we just ask our children to lick the inside rim of a