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During my last week at work in Jersey, a girl came into my office with head lice. I was not prepared for that. Granted there was a lice outbreak my last semester in the dorms in nursing school... I tried not to have anything to do with it in order to keep myself clean. Being the appointed "school nurse" for the kids, that was not an option this time.
While I was putting vaseline on a boy with very chapped, cracked lips, a teacher brought in a girl with possible head lice. Yikes! The teacher started spelling all sorts of words as not to scare the kids, but I was in no place to comprehend the spelling and deal with head lice at the same time. Kinda stressful. Anyway. The girl's sister and cousin were also brought in because they were very likely to have lice as well. I start searching through their hair, assessing, picking out little bugs, when the school secretary barges in the room, and without gloves, digs through their hair telling me that there are not lice in there. Hmm... then what are these bugs I keep removing? But she insists nothing is there bug dandruff, until "SCREAM! There are lice in her hair!" Yes... that is why we have her in here. Then she runs out of the room, leaving me in my tiny little office with three little kids, one with lice, and no toys or ways to keep them entertained. So my office gets torn apart, the weighing scale gets jumped on, and papers fly all over the place. Finally someone thinks it is a good idea to bring in crayons and color pages. After awhile the kids; ride comes to take them home.
When I got home, I stripped to my skinnies, threw my clothes in the washer, and took a steamy hot shower. ... I still felt itchy for the rest of the week.
I did some research on head lice. Here you go. Learn lots!
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Here is a handout about head lice for School Nurses (like me!)
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