Help with a nursing paper

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I am a nursing student in Ohio and I am doing a paper on community health nursing for my nursing leadership class. I thought it would be very interesting to interview a school nurse for this paper, but I do not personally know any nurses in this area. I was wondering if anyone would be willing to answer 16 or so simple questions about your job and what you do, no real names needed. It would be much appreciated!

Glad to help, I am a school nurse in California...can you post your questions here? Or e-mail me at [email protected]

thank you so much! i'll post the questions below, if it gets too long, or if you would just feel more comfortable e-mailing the responses back my e-mail is [email protected]. thank you again!!

how long have you been a nurse and what type of degree do you have?

how long have you been a school nurse?

what kind of school do you work in?

briefly describe your primary responsibilities.

how do you provide health promotion and/or disease prevention?

what are your patient education responsibilities?

do you work as part of a team or are you autonomous? if so, to whom do you report to?

do you use professional organizations for networking, support, or additional teaching/education? if so what organization(s)?

do you have any specialty certification(s) to be a school nurse? if so what?

how do you insure “best practice” to improve quality of care in your daily duties?

how do you act as the child’s advocate when a parent(s) are unwilling or unable to care for the sick child?

Specializes in Med Office, Home Health, School Nurse.

I emailed you :-)

hope this helps...good luck with you paper

how long have you been a nurse and what type of degree do you have? i have been a nurse for 17 years and a school nurse for 7...i am a rn and hold a msn, bsn, phn, and certified school nurse credential.

how long have you been a school nurse? 7 years

what kind of school do you work in?i have worked in k-12 system and currently now in a 7-12 system with 13,000 students.

briefly describe your primary responsibilities. i over see all of student health services, from direct hand on nursing care to writing all health care plans and management duties as well.

how do you provide health promotion and/or disease prevention? 7th grade have a health component in their pe class and 10th grade have a required health class in high school.

what are your patient education responsibilities? i assist a the health educators covering everything from nurtition, exercise, sexual health, and disease prevention.

do you work as part of a team or are you autonomous? if so, to whom do you report to? i report directly to the director of student health services who is not a nurse....i work as part of the sped team and over see all the health aids.

do you use professional organizations for networking, support, or additional teaching/education? if so what organization(s)? california school nurse association as well as our local agencies

do you have any specialty certification(s) to be a school nurse? if so what? i hold a school nurse credential in the state of california

how do you insure "best practice" to improve quality of care in your daily duties? i am constantly doing reserch to ensure that we uphold best practice, i attend confrences, and continue to educate myself in order to stay current.

how do you act as the child's advocate when a parent(s) are unwilling or unable to care for the sick child? educate, educate, and educate...as i see it we must try over and over again to assist our families to learn so that they can provide the best they can for thier student, yes of course there are times that we must involve the law and or cps when necessary but we continue to assist our families as best we can.

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