Hello all,
I have been lurking this site for a long time and just decided I want to be a part of the conversations that are happening on this site! Lots of good info. Anyways, I work in a very unique school where all of our students are in K. We have about 480 students. This is my first year as a school nurse, with the previous 6 in a mix of psych, med-surg and float pool. I have a student on an IEP who, just as of yesterday, is now planned to take a nap in my office/health room (i dont have a seperate office with a door. Its all one big room....that issue is for another post, because there is ZERO privacy) every day from 1-130. I only have two beds as it is, and only two chairs. With it being flu season I have very often had both beds occupied with sick kids waiting to be picked up, and even more kids sitting in chairs. Is it an appropriate request of administration to #1-use my health room for a nap and #2-make me responsible for this child and his behaviors should be not nap during this time (he gets dropped off in my office and then the behavior support para takes off and Im left to make sure he gets to where he needs to go when he wakes up. Just seems like something a nurse shouldnt be doing but who knows, like I said I am new. any thoughts would be very much appreciated!!