Do you get any real and regular supervision?

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As a school nurse in a private school, I'm sort of neither fish-nor-fowl. I have a nominal supervisor, but have not had formal supervision yet this school year. My development as an employee seems like it's all up to me. (Not necessarily a bad thing...)

How 'bout other folks?

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Specializes in School Health.

The only supervisor I have is the Principal (I'm at a Charter School). My contract is on an annual basis and I am not guaranteed from one year to the next.  My principal however will come to any staff member with opinions she feels needs to be corrected.

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Yes I work for the town (not the school) health department.  My manager oversees all the nurses and aides at the schools in the district.  The job I had prior to this I was the one and only and I didn't like it.  I really appreciate being part of a team even if we rarely see each other.   I also like that I don't report to the principal so I don't have to bend to her needs if it's not medically necessary.

 

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On 12/7/2021 at 1:51 PM, arlingtonnurse said:

Yes I work for the town (not the school) health department.  My manager oversees all the nurses and aides at the schools in the district.  The job I had prior to this I was the one and only and I didn't like it.  I really appreciate being part of a team even if we rarely see each other.   I also like that I don't report to the principal so I don't have to bend to her needs if it's not medically necessary.

Is your principal reasonable to work with?

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On 12/7/2021 at 2:01 PM, Jedrnurse said:

Is your principal reasonable to work with?

Yes, my principal is great but I'm glad she is more of a colleague than a supervisor.  Unlike my manager, she has only a superficial knowledge of many of the regulations I need to follow outside of hands on nursing care.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Community Health, School Health.

My supervisor is our District Lead Nurse.  HER supervisor is a new position that was created this year and so far none of us can understand why this new person would supervise the Lead Nurse.  The role is not clinical, the person in the role is a total micromanager with zero clinical or public health knowledge, it is terrible.  

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Specializes in School nursing.

My boss is a non nurse. I do love her, though, and she is great at helping me and understanding limit of her knowledge.

I've taken on the role of school nurse leader this year. I'm still finding my way in this new to my school role, but thus far, overall clinical decisions for the school have been mine to make. 

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My principal is considered my boss but if any discipline/issues for nursing/medical related decisions etc need to take place the Director of Health Services - basically our lead RN for the district - would be pulled into the issue. 

Every year for my review my principal always tells me she has no idea what I am supposed to be doing, no idea how to answer some of the required review questions about me etc but always tells me I am doing a great job.....I just find it funny and I am kindof glad for the most part I am on my own.  

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On 12/8/2021 at 10:36 AM, AdobeRN said:

Every year for my review my principal always tells me she has no idea what I am supposed to be doing, no idea how to answer some of the required review questions about me etc but always tells me I am doing a great job.....I just find it funny and I am kindof glad for the most part I am on my own.  

As long as you haven't created any fires for your principal to put out, it's usually "all good" with them...

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Specializes in School Nursing, Pediatrics.

I work in a large inner city district, so we have a nursing director and several nursing supervisors that all work out of the "main nursing office" but are all over the district. I can call for anything anytime and they will help. But for day to day in school issues I usually deal with principal or assistant principal, who are both incredible and very supportive. 

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I am based out of 1 school, but cover the IEPs for mine and 6 other schools. So, between my building admin, director of student services, director of special ED services and the other admin that I work with, I feel like I have a million supervisors. I'm OK with it though because I get what I need to do my job and none of them micromanage me. 

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On 12/8/2021 at 7:32 AM, MHDNURSE said:

The role is not clinical, the person in the role is a total micromanager with zero clinical or public health knowledge, it is terrible.  

This was a big reason as to why I left my last job. I was willing to put up with a lot, but the constant micromanaging got to be too much for me.

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