Attention GA school nurses!

[GreenWitch]

attention ga school nurses

hi! i'm doing a little investigating this summer....i was wondering if y'all could help me out?

my school has a really low school nurse salary. i know the national average for school nurses are about $38,000 but i'm trying to get information on the average georgia school nurse salary. i'm not being nosey...just trying to compile information for the boe to help us girls get a higher salary. the rns get paid the same as the lpns! and it doesn't matter if you have 200 students or 1200...still all the same pay.

the starting salary here (in rural north east ga) is $20,000 and the cap (25 years) is $25,000!!!

please respond asap as i return to school on july 31st. if you don't wish to post here, please e-mail me @ [email protected].

thanks! enjoy the remainder of your summer!

[NurseKittyAtlanta]

There are two school nurse openings in my county and they pay $18.52 an hour for RNs, and about $17 for LPNs. When you take into account that the workday is only 7 hours and the summers are off without pay, I calculated the annual salary to be only about $22,000. Needless to say I did not apply. ;-)

[GreenWitch]

Thanks NurseKitty for the info :)

[NurseKittyAtlanta]

Oh, one more thing I found interesting about the school nurse job postings in my area ... they also said that they'd be willing to hire an "unlicensed person" to fill the position at a rate of $10 an hour, "no experience necessary" ... I thought that was really strange.

[GreenWitch]

OH NO! That is scary! I can see how that would be ok to do something basic such as putting on band-aids...but that is something I rarely do...I would be horrified as a parent if I had a child who was diabetic/asthmatic/epileptic/etc to learn that the school had an un-licensed "health care giver" attending their needs!!! Thanks for the info.