with so many new school nurse's here on allnurses, i thought it might be good for us all to introduce ourselves. i would like to know each one of my new friends !
i'm praiser. have been a school nurse for 18 years. i work in the mid-west. i do elementary school and am the sole nurse for my school. i love school nursing (for the most part) ! i love the kids. the teacher's tend to drive me nuts, but i can deal with them. i have gotten so much good advice from this message board. i appreciate all of you !
I am a school nurse at a high school that has a mother-baby program. We have about 1400 students and around 60ish pregnant teens. I was the only nurse here for the first year and a half but now there are two of us full time. During that first year I would have to get someone to come into my office so that I could go to the bathroom. (The bathroom is inside my office) Forget eating lunch. That was unheard of. I have been here for three years. I simply love every minute of my job. This is an inner city high school. The kids are fantastic. True enough they have adult problems at a young age and the females have enough drama going to write a screenplay....but I feel every day like I have made a difference in someone's life. Mostly what I do is counseling and guidance but I love it. I laugh at the ridiculous parents after I hang up the phone or after they leave my office. This is the best job. I am off for every holiday and if I wake up and the wind is blowing too hard or the weather is bad I know there will be no school and I can stay home and still get paid. If I need extra money I can pick up some extra work somewhere but I have learned to live on what I make and if that's not working then its time to downsize. It is comforting to hear that other nurses did not get any orientation or guidance as to what to do when they started working. I thought I was the lone ranger. I want to create some type of nutritional education and breakfast club for my pregnant teens because their nutrition is very, very poor. I am looking for some suggestions from other nurses on how to structure something like this. I write grants for a hobby so I'm pretty sure that I will be able to find funding sources but I need some ideas on how to structure a program like this to take place in the mornings before school and to provide healthy snacks during the school day. It's nice meeting all of you and learning about your working environments.
dollbaby
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Hi Everybody,
I am a school nurse at a high school that has a mother-baby program. We have about 1400 students and around 60ish pregnant teens. I was the only nurse here for the first year and a half but now there are two of us full time. During that first year I would have to get someone to come into my office so that I could go to the bathroom. (The bathroom is inside my office) Forget eating lunch. That was unheard of. I have been here for three years. I simply love every minute of my job. This is an inner city high school. The kids are fantastic. True enough they have adult problems at a young age and the females have enough drama going to write a screenplay....but I feel every day like I have made a difference in someone's life. Mostly what I do is counseling and guidance but I love it. I laugh at the ridiculous parents after I hang up the phone or after they leave my office. This is the best job. I am off for every holiday and if I wake up and the wind is blowing too hard or the weather is bad I know there will be no school and I can stay home and still get paid. If I need extra money I can pick up some extra work somewhere but I have learned to live on what I make and if that's not working then its time to downsize. It is comforting to hear that other nurses did not get any orientation or guidance as to what to do when they started working. I thought I was the lone ranger. I want to create some type of nutritional education and breakfast club for my pregnant teens because their nutrition is very, very poor. I am looking for some suggestions from other nurses on how to structure something like this. I write grants for a hobby so I'm pretty sure that I will be able to find funding sources but I need some ideas on how to structure a program like this to take place in the mornings before school and to provide healthy snacks during the school day. It's nice meeting all of you and learning about your working environments.