non-nursing functions

smk1, LPN · Dec 9, 2003

had to reply to this, i am not a nurse yet just a student but i worked for 3 years as a school health assistant (the nurse was in the school 1 day aweek and planned my activities and i was delegated to do the nurses "job") anyhoo I know exactly what you mean! I constantly had kids that fell in mud on the playground getting sent in to get "cleaned up" I sent them to the office to call home for a change of clothes. I also had lots of kids sent to me because they hadn't had breakfast and were hungry! (hello there is a cafeteria in the school!) anyway my nurse was awesome and told me to be "briely helpful" meaning call a parent for non nursing issues (ie wet clothes, hunger, gum in the hair etc..) and notify the office that the student will be coming in to wait for mommy! (the hunger thing if it was a chronic problem i reported to the school counseler and principle though)

schoolnurse/dr · Dec 10, 2003

Honey get used to it. This is universally considered the nurses job. I'm constantly pinning pants because they don't wear belts and they're falling down. I fix hair, apply lotion to dry skin, sew rips in clothes, and am now expected to help clean up a student that has encoperesis, and can't get himself clean. I drew the line there. I told them I was not going to do that. I also have bus duty! Just being part of the team:D

Josie K · Dec 12, 2003

I guess it all boils down to what is in the job description spec, which the 'S.Nurse' applied for. As a professional one should have some guidlines for referrals. If there is none, write them and distribute copy's to relevant teaching staff. And pin them on your door. If you don't TELL them (the teachers), then they don't know.

Houskeeping is not a 'nursing' function, it's the schools responsibility. Ask onself - would the same level of referrals be sent to see a Doctor?

If you always do what you always did, then you always get what you always got!!!!

BarbPick · Dec 12, 2003

Keep that kid from coming into the clinic.

schoolnurse/dr · Dec 12, 2003

:kiss I first let these little things get to me. However we're trying to teach our kids to be responsible for themselves. So if they come in full of mud, I sahow them how to clean off and let them do it. They usually don't do it a second time. If they mess up the floor in the process, they're responsible for cleaning it up too. If the least thing I have to do all day is pin a kids pants up, I feel blessed. The smile you get in return is worth it. The kids are under enough stress already to conform to fashion, and their parents allow it. We are just an instrument providing safety, and that's what we're teaching when we do these minor things for them. The teachers don't have the time or the safety pins, and I get to interact with the kids and get to know them a little better.

Try looking at things from this perspective and hopefully it will help you see how they may be inconviences, but to a kid their big things. Feel blessed that you get to spend time with this child and maybe that you made their day a little easier. And no, I don't know of any job description that lists these duties, but I've been a nurse for 30 years, and haven't worked a job yet that lists all the actual tasks a nurse has to perform on any job.

kevinsnurse · Dec 9, 2004

Honey get used to it. This is universally considered the nurses job. I'm constantly pinning pants because they don't wear belts and they're falling down. I fix hair, apply lotion to dry skin, sew rips in clothes, and am now expected to help clean up a student that has encoperesis, and can't get himself clean. I drew the line there. I told them I was not going to do that. I also have bus duty! Just being part of the team:D

Oh. I glad I found this post again. I wasn't sure who wrote it. Please refer to my post "complaining nurses". You should be absolutely ashamed to call your self a nurse.Why did you become a nurse? What do you think you should be doing to nurse children. I think you should reevaluate your piorities on why you became a nurse and do the children under your care a favor and look for a new job!!!!!!!!!

kevinsnurse · Dec 9, 2004

Why the two different responses to nursing functions? Now your blessed to spend time with the children and in your other post you "draw the line". Perhaps you realized how cold hearted you sounded in your first post.

:kiss I first let these little things get to me. However we're trying to teach our kids to be responsible for themselves. So if they come in full of mud, I sahow them how to clean off and let them do it. They usually don't do it a second time. If they mess up the floor in the process, they're responsible for cleaning it up too. If the least thing I have to do all day is pin a kids pants up, I feel blessed. The smile you get in return is worth it. The kids are under enough stress already to conform to fashion, and their parents allow it. We are just an instrument providing safety, and that's what we're teaching when we do these minor things for them. The teachers don't have the time or the safety pins, and I get to interact with the kids and get to know them a little better.
Try looking at things from this perspective and hopefully it will help you see how they may be inconviences, but to a kid their big things. Feel blessed that you get to spend time with this child and maybe that you made their day a little easier. And no, I don't know of any job description that lists these duties, but I've been a nurse for 30 years, and haven't worked a job yet that lists all the actual tasks a nurse has to perform on any job.

Keepstanding, ASN, RN · Jan 28, 2005

Is Kevinsnurse a School Nurse ?

Just wondering if he cleans dog poo on shoes?

Hmmmm??? :cool: :cool:

Fiona59 · Jan 28, 2005

Kevinsnurse seems to have dropped off the radar. Maybe he's discovered nursing really isn't all that glamourous after all?

smk1, LPN · Jan 28, 2005

Kevinsnurse seems to have dropped off the radar. Maybe he's discovered nursing really isn't all that glamourous after all?

if i recall correctly Kevinsnurse was upset about how she/he percieved the school nurse didn't want to help her nephew with his bowel control issues, or something to that effect.