Clinic Staffing

[Kooky Korky, BSN, RN]

How many staff members work with you?  I am  finding overwhelm with just me, especially at the start of the year.  I have no assistant.

[Piper98, ASN, BSN, RN]

In our district, only the high schools and middle schools have health aides.

[Eleven011]

I am the only school in my district, PreK - 12, and I am the only staff for the health dept.   

[k1p1ssk, BSN, RN]

Our district has the equivalent of 3 full time nurses - one for each building. The high school has two nurses, but their hours are combined to create the 1.0 FTE; Their other time is split - one of them handles health education on a PT basis, and the other makes up the other half as the district nurse leader. We also just hired a float "resource nurse" who is an LPN and will be spending dedicated hours in each building each week so that the FT nurse can get caught up on paperwork, phone calls, etc. She is also our dedicated sub nurse. I can tell that having the float is going to be a game changer - it will allow me to take my paperwork and laptop into a quiet space and focus on the nitty gritty paperwork without interruption! Would have been nice to have that last year - I didn't get through my data entry until 4 days before the end of the school year ? 

[Glitternurse, LVN]

There is 1 RN and me the LVN for our district of about 3500 PS-6th grade students spread over 6 schools.  

[Keeperofbandages, LPN]

It's just me at my school.  I'm in a K-8 Public Charter School with about 880 kids and about 90 staff.

[arlingtonnurse]

Just me for Elementary school of ~400

[RNwhohasgoats]

Just me in my school K-3 of about 900 students. 

The other schools (16 in the district) all have one nurse except one has 2. 

[NutmeggeRN, BSN]

Me and 500 high school kids, my medically complex CP student has an aide (lna) and my other student with a MIC-KEY has a 1:1 LPN. For the most part it is doable. The beginning of the year is the worst with al the paper work

[SavyNurse, ADN, EMT-B]

Our district has one nurse at every school (lpn or RN). Some school may have a .5 nurse or a second nurse based on procedures. 

[Bulldogs, CNA, EMT-B]

Just me 700 students pre k-12 and a ton of staff.  3 buildings

[RatherBHiking, BSN, RN]

In our district, there is one nurse per school. It doesn’t matter if you have 300 students or 1500, it’s just one nurse with no assistant. Even though 1500 is a lot, those are high schools and they see less kids a day than a lot of the smaller schools. Over the years they have added to our duties and the kids are needier and sicker but no extra pay or help for that. It is overwhelming and I feel bad for the new nurses. We have a huge turnover because many nurses think this will be less stressful than the hospital but it’s not. It’s just a different kind of stress. Plus you don’t get paid nearly as well as other nursing jobs.