Some people are just plain rude!

momto5RN · May 4, 2017

What an ass!!! I hope I'm allowed to say this on here. I am so tired of people I know or went to nursing school with who think school nursing is not "real" nursing. I have a friend from nursing school who works in the ICU and another friend from high school that is a nurse on a Neuro floor and they are constantly joking around how what I do is "fluff" work and place band aids and kiss boo-boos all day (actual wording from the neuro nurse!). I have an amazing nursing professor that I still keep in contact with (literally like a second mother to me) and she was a former school nurse. She saw a comment that one of them said to me on Facebook in regards to a post I made about my life as a school nurse. And boy did she rip them!! It was fun to read, lol!

tining, BSN, RN · May 4, 2017

Put That in the "doctors say the darnedest things" for the 7 day of nurses give away. You can wave tour two-fifty at him.

momto5RN · May 4, 2017

Whatever. This "mall cop" never works weekends, holidays, nights, or during the summer.
Suckers!

Lol, this is perfect!!!!!!

tining, BSN, RN · May 4, 2017

Put that in the "Doctors say the darnedest things" for the 2017 National Nurses Week 7 Days of Giveaways - right hand corner of our screen. Then wave that two-fifty in his face.

HburgRN07 · May 4, 2017

Ha! I did!!

MrNurse(x2), ADN · May 4, 2017

What an ass!!! I hope I'm allowed to say this on here. I am so tired of people I know or went to nursing school with who think school nursing is not "real" nursing. I have a friend from nursing school who works in the ICU and another friend from high school that is a nurse on a Neuro floor and they are constantly joking around how what I do is "fluff" work and place band aids and kiss boo-boos all day (actual wording from the neuro nurse!). I have an amazing nursing professor that I still keep in contact with (literally like a second mother to me) and she was a former school nurse. She saw a comment that one of them said to me on Facebook in regards to a post I made about my life as a school nurse. And boy did she rip them!! It was fun to read, lol!

There is this arrogance that the only "real" nurses work in hospitals and ICU nurses somehow are up at the top. LTC and others are seen as somehow less. I can testify that hospital nursing is a necessary evil. I do more "real nursing" in school and LTC than I ever did in a very heavy post OHS step down. I was responsible for ADLs - NON- SKILLED nursing care at a hospital, not so at LTC or school nursing. I miss NOTHING of hospital nursing, and I feel no less of a nurse because of it. To use two user names in AN, Beentheredonethat and NOADLs.

JerseyTomatoMDCrab, BSN · May 4, 2017

A condescending anesthesiologist?! Pardon me while I hide my overwhelming shock.

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SchoolNurseTXstyle · May 4, 2017

This "real" nurse has no CNA to check my student's blood sugars while I am bandaging a wound, no RT's to call in when my asthma kid is struggling to breathe, no orthopedic consult when that kid breaks his leg on the football field. And when and if there is a code blue - all me!!

If that's not real enough for you.....

moreoreo · May 4, 2017

I'm so sorry he said that to you, how rude!

When I told family friends that I was going to start as a school nurse, many of them said, "won't you be bored?" I can count the number of times I have been bored in my months working here on one hand. There is always a student (or ten) in the health office or a call on the walkie to come with the wheelchair or a call to make to a parent/doctor/teacher or medications to check or paperwork to check or field trips/events to arrange for or an obscure diagnosis to research or the rest of my to-do list, and this is as a beginner nurse who is still discovering the breadth of things I can do for the wellness of my school. Not to mention the mental burden of all the scenarios that could happen to any one student and how I can best prepare for such scenarios. Because we are seen as just a convenience until suddenly we are the only person in the building who can save a student.

My stories from these four short months are enough to quiet those who thought it would be easy/boring/etc. :nono: I'm so thankful for those who naturally understand the difficulty of this role. I remember one of my coworkers at the hospital stating immediately, "I don't think I could ever do that. It would be so scary to be responsible for so many people without a doctor there."

We are so brave and at least we can appreciate one another! I do think school nursing's reputation is on the up thanks to the amazing things you all do! We have to advocate for ourselves because what we do is truly important and should be respected.

KKEGS, MSN, RN · May 4, 2017

Well said, moreoreo!!!

SchoolNurseTXstyle · May 4, 2017

I'm so sorry he said that to you, how rude!
When I told family friends that I was going to start as a school nurse, many of them said, "won't you be bored?" I can count the number of times I have been bored in my months working here on one hand. There is always a student (or ten) in the health office or a call on the walkie to come with the wheelchair or a call to make to a parent/doctor/teacher or medications to check or paperwork to check or field trips/events to arrange for or an obscure diagnosis to research or the rest of my to-do list, and this is as a beginner nurse who is still discovering the breadth of things I can do for the wellness of my school. Not to mention the mental burden of all the scenarios that could happen to any one student and how I can best prepare for such scenarios. Because we are seen as just a convenience until suddenly we are the only person in the building who can save a student.
My stories from these four short months are enough to quiet those who thought it would be easy/boring/etc. I'm so thankful for those who naturally understand the difficulty of this role. I remember one of my coworkers at the hospital stating immediately, "I don't think I could ever do that. It would be so scary to be responsible for so many people without a doctor there."
We are so brave and at least we can appreciate one another! I do think school nursing's reputation is on the up thanks to the amazing things you all do! We have to advocate for ourselves because what we do is truly important and should be respected.

YESSSS!!! I sometimes drive to work and try not to get overwhelmed that I am basically responsible for keeping 1300 people alive every day.

A12hrNightshifter · May 4, 2017

I work night and I constantly hear how lucky I am to do nothing all night because the patients are asleep. All nightshifters know patients never sleep at night!