I do ❤️ the stare-downs I get when I am on the phone and a student walks in. I give them a quick look (no bleeding, unlabored breathing, no bone deformities = you can wait). But they stare until I hang up. My son was getting assaulted by a bully at ...
I was a member of the teachers union when I was full time. They were useless in helping me when administrators ordered me to improperly administer a medication. As I was dealing with that, I called the union rep for a meeting. We agreed to meet duri...
I’m a Nj SN. I’m subbing right now. I’ve been in 4 different high schools and your situation is ridiculous. I don’t blame you for resigning. If you are open to another SN job, they aren’t all that bad! They aren’t easy - the issues, the paperwork, th...
rbytsdy replied to Nursetravel246's topic in School
I teach childbirth classes and parenting classes at my local hospital. But you could work prn with a home health agency too. They are always desperate for nurses and you can usually negotiate your hours. The agency I work for is happy if you just pic...
It’s frustrating! There was a mom in a local school who tried to get a sub teacher fired. Why? He was the 5th kid in a hour to ask to see the nurse (and the kid, of course, never asked to see the nurse). The sub said, “no.” He threw up an hour after...
rbytsdy replied to ConnecticutMassRN's topic in School
I had a teacher who was so tired of sending me kids that she kept a cooler of ketchup packets in a cooler in her classroom. She had the kids put those on their eyes.
In my kids school they get a cookie. Seriously. Every month of perfect attendance = cookie from the cafeteria. My daughter was fighting me to go to school on the last day of Feb so she could get a perfect attendance cookie. Leaving 30 minutes ea...
Send her home!!! Uneven piercings sounds emergent. We need a big cut-out check mark ✅ to hand to kids. That way they can return to their respective classrooms and there will be no doubt that they have, in fact, been checked. They can come back beari...
Those are good documents!! I used the “when to see the school nurse” document and it did help. I should clarify- I was in my first school nurse job for 2.5 years. My first principal was very nice and tried to be supportive. He found that “when to se...
Does your state require any kind of certification to work in schools? In my state we need a bachelors and a post-baccalaureate certification in school nursing which teaches a lot about working in schools. My first job in school nursing was similar t...
I want to shake these parents. I used to work in an all walker district. I had 1 nervous teacher that used to send me a lot of kids. I didn’t think much of this one student coming in a 9am (school started at 8:30). 101 degree fever. I called dad. Gu...
No, not mean at all!!! I was in a huge school with a needy population. The “it hurts” were becoming overwhelming. The teachers would say, “I can’t assess” so every little ache would be sent down to me. I got tired. They wanted me to do something. So ...
I used them on the “it hurts” areas. That is, the areas where student didn’t bump, fall, or injury in any way. But they still expect you can take away that random hurt on the back of their finger!!! For some reason the “growing pains” explaination wa...
I had a student today give me a 10 minute explaination of how he tripped over the dog bed (story included pertinent information on picking up soiled puppy pad and retrieving new one) and hurt his knee. Steady gait. No limping. No signs of distress. M...