How many students?

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Specializes in M.Ed., BSN, CSN.

I was wondering how many students you are responsible for and what grades your school is? Also, is there a Certified School Nurse and a Health Assistant in your office or are you flying solo?

Thanks!

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Specializes in Home Health, Mental/Behavioral Health.

Hey there, I'm not in school nursing, but my kids' school has a part-time RN who flies solo. She is there every day of the week for about 4-5hrs. The school has grades K-5 with about 600 students. When she is gone, the office administration is responsible. This is in Ohio. I've just recently learned that most schools, elementary up to high school, operate the same way. Probably varies though by location.

Also there are a lot of job postings in my area for 'school health assistant' requiring either LPN or RN license. These people are also to be the sole medical personnel in the building and the positions are being advertised as part-time. Seems like my state is not big on School Nursing, which I hate.

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I am in NY. 300 k-pre k students and I am the only nurse in my school.

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Specializes in Home Health,Dialysis, MDS, School Nurse.

I have about 650 students spread evenly from PreK - 12. I am full time, the only nurse in my school, no aides. We are not required to be certified.

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Specializes in School Nursing.

I cover 2 schools, one elementary and one middle school. Grades Pre-K through 8. Total # of students is approximately 1600. Each of my schools has a full time health aide. I do half a day at each school Monday through Friday.

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The district I work for requires the school nurse to be an RN. There is a nurse on duty at every school, and only a few schools that have an intensive needs program have two nurses. One of our high schools even has three. My particular school (~350 kids) has one RN on duty for all hours of the school day, the full time, and then me, the mega part time afternoon nurse. Our state is just starting up SN certification again, so right now, all of that is a great big ball of hot mess until they figure it all out.

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Specializes in ED, School Nurse.

My high school (grades 9-12) has 650 students and it's just me. I also am responsible for another 250 or so junior high students (grades 7 & 8) when the junior high nurse leaves a few hours every day to cover another school in the district. Our buildings are attached at one end. The junior high secretaries are awesome about "triaging" students and only sending me the truly sick and all injured to me for evaluation, so there are many days I don't see junior high kids at all. We do not have any health aides in our district. We employ all RNs.

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Specializes in kids.

495 students High School

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K-5 about 400 students

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I have about 300 and I'm the only medical provider (no aides, etc.).

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850 students, Pre-k to 2nd grade. It's just me at my school, but I do have a nurse supervisor that works at our HS campus. And she actually calls me with more questions that I call her.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Community Health, School Health.

Right now I have 250 students grades K and 1. Next year will be K, 1, and 2 and be 375...it will continue to grow and cap out at 625 in 2019-2020 school year (we are slowly growing our elementary school each year until 4th grade). I am the only medical person. Because we are a charter school, we don't have a "district" nurse perse.

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