Any Dallas school nurses here?

guest83140 · Sep 16, 2008

I worked for DISD about 9 years ago. I now work at another Dallas County School District. It was ok then but I didn't get a good orientation as the District Nurse was retiring. I was shown around for a couple of hours and pretty much learnt on my own. I was hired in April and resigned when school ended because my pay was prorated and I had to work at the hospital on weekends to make ends meet. I wasn't told about the prorated pay until I had filled out my W2 forms and had accepted the postion. The pay is much better now I hear but it is hard to get in if you're not Hispanic. Dallas ISD is mostly Hispanic, 60% and so they want all hired to be the same?

As far as transitioning... I had 20 years experince so it was nothing to me. But I think if you have at least 1-2 years and feel comfortable with what you do, it should be no problem. The hardest part for me was getting used to leaving paperwork not completed on my desk. You won't be caught up most of the time with paperwork but it's not like the hospital. But it (emergencies) can go from 0 to 100 in seconds, but it is infrequent.

Some of DISD schools have to share one nurse and larger schools have their own nurse. But with me back then, the nurse recruiter didn't tell me after I was hired that I would have 2 schools. She was a mean Hispanic Nurse Recruiter. I interviewed the same day with another Hispanic young nurse. She gave me the 2 schools (junior high and elementary) and gave her a high school(where most speak English).

Right now the Hispanic Superintendent has a hiring freeze. It seems he and his cohorts has lost $64 million dollars again. :no: