Seasoned elementary school nurses: I need tips!

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I have 5 years of experience as an RN. 4 of those years were as a floor nurse and this past 1 year has been as an office nurse where I managed the office alone except for the 1-2 days a week that our surgeon would come in for outpatient procedures. I really loved that job and loved the independence, but we had major changes last month and long story short, I had to go. This was my chance to finally go for a school nurse position and I just accepted a position in an elementary school and will start in less than 2 weeks. I'm very excited for this new experience and opportunity to grow in my career and help care for some of our most vulnerable little humans!

I will not have an aid or assistant, just me as the school nurse. Any tips for how to prepare for working with these little kiddos with very little experience working with peds? (Most of my peds experience was in nursing school and occasionally when I'd float down to the ER at my hospital). Any lifesaver tips?

Also, I will be floating between two campuses where I swap places with an LVN every other week. Why they don't leave me at one campus and the LVN at the other campus, I don't know. I probably should've asked but there must be a reason. Anyway, any of you fellow floaters have tips on how go through the year smoothly while going back and forth?

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