nitengale75

nitengale75 has 34 years experience and specializes in School Nursing and Dialysis.

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1. All School Nurses

   nitengale75 replied to Keepstanding's topic in School

   My name is Judy and I have been an RN for 34 years and a school nurse for 19 years. I have currently been the only nurse at our high school serving 1700 students for 16 years. It has been the best and most rewarding job I have every had. I work in...

2. Questions for School Nurse Applicants

   nitengale75 replied to nitengale75's topic in School

   Thanks Martha! I knew you wouldn't let me down and would have some great advice as always.

3. Questions for School Nurse Applicants

   nitengale75 posted a topic in School

   I am looking for questions to ask potential applicants for school nursing positions. Any creative questions/ideas from this board? Thanks in advance for your help!

4. I could cry....

   nitengale75 replied to Aneroo's topic in School

   They are in any city, state, in the United States. I have an 18 year old junior student who is on her 3rd baby. No reason for it when my girls can go to the health department at age 12 and get free birth control without their parent's consent or kn...

5. Visits per Day

   nitengale75 replied to zenman's topic in School

   In my school, I do not expect the teacher to make a diagnosis of a health problem. However, I do expect the teacher to know who the frequent fliers are, who the students are who constantly want out of class (I am in a high school) and what is trivia...

6. Visits per Day

   nitengale75 replied to zenman's topic in School

   I have a high school of about 1600 students. I see between 30 and 40 students a day. I complained once to my mother that if I see one more student walk through my door I was going to scream. She reminded me that that's what I was hired to do. I h...

7. To all School Nurses...

   nitengale75 replied to mygirlarely's topic in School

   I have been an R.N. since 1975 and a school nurse since 1990. Had I started as a school nurse right away I would be eligible for full retirement next year from the school district. However, my 14 years of dialysis and 1 year of surgery have given m...

8. What do you wear at work...?

   nitengale75 replied to Keepstanding's topic in School

   Most of the time I wear scrubs. Once in a while I will wear street clothes. I always wear my district picture ID. We require our high school students to wear visible ID's so I try to set the example by wearing mine.

9. writing prescriptions

   nitengale75 replied to nitengale75's topic in Illinois

   I've been gone for a week for spring break and noticed all the replies. Here's is an update. I finally talked with Colleen Hurst who is a nurse investigator for the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation. She emphatically said that this pr...

10. writing prescriptions

    nitengale75 replied to nitengale75's topic in Illinois

    Thanks for your reply. I do not participate in this practice, but I had a nurse tell me that she does. I even called a local pharmacy and was told that they accepted prescriptions written in this fashion. I've been an RN for 30 years and did not t...

11. writing prescriptions

    nitengale75 posted a topic in Illinois

    Can anyone tell me if the Illinois Nurse Practice Act now allows RN's (not APN's) to write prescriptions, sign the doctor's name and then slash it with his or her initials? I always thought this was outside our scope of practice, but apparently is b...

12. can gallstones return?

    nitengale75 replied to DianeS's topic in General Nursing

    I had my gallbladder removed in 1980. In 1998 I started having horrible chest pains. I was checked out from top to bottom with every test available. The pain was so bad that I went to the ER eleven times in 2 months! Everyone thought it was "stre...

13. Should I become a nurse or a teacher?

    nitengale75 replied to TinaRiy85's topic in General Nursing

    I feel so blessed because I have the best of both worlds. I was a hospital based nurse for 15 years and am now starting my 15th year as a school nurse. I never wanted to be anything but a nurse since first grade. It has been extremely rewarding fo...

14. School nurse praised for quick thinking

    nitengale75 replied to VickyRN's topic in School

    I am in central Illinois just south of you. We do not have standing orders for an epi-pen as we do not have a school physician. I do not even have any epi-pens for other students I could use. When I went to Boston 2 summers ago for my M.Ed., a sch...

15. School RN salary

    nitengale75 replied to Ashleejoy83's topic in School

    That's great! It sounds like you only have to complete the school nurse internship and the state testing. Some districts do not place a certified school nurse on the teacher scale. And others will place you on the teacher's scale but with no years ...