I know that a lot of the times as School Nurse's we feel isolated and cast aside in our building. I often feel used and taken for granted. I have been doing this for a long time now, but that empty feeling never goes away.
We work solo, for the most part and we are not educators (although we do a lot of teaching). We are constantly under fire from the teachers who disagree with our point of view and by parents who quite often just don't give a dang about their sick child.
It is disheartening and we bear it all each day, keeping quiet and doing our best.
I would like to start a post that encourages each one of us. Please join me !
THANK YOU ALL FOR THE SUPPORT, LOVE AND LAUGHS THAT YOU EACH SUPPLY ME EACH DAY ! SOME DAY'S YOU ARE THE ONLY BRIGHT SPOT IN MY DAY !
You guys area great! I agree with everyone that having this group has made my transition into school nursing much easier! The wealth of knowledge and just understanding is amazing!
I want to take the time to say how sad I have been the last 2 1/2 months from working at LifeCare Center in Blount County, TN. This is a beautiful new building, but the administration staff are horrible to work for. If you don't suck up then you are put out in the cold, I am not this type gal. I cannot possibly do enough to please these people even though my residents loved me and hugged me often, smiling, and cut up with me. I will miss them, but I cannot take the attitude any longer with these people. My immediate boss has so much sarcasim that I want to scream, my other boss says I need to do more like I have the extra time to keep calling the pharmacy, even when a fall occurred and all of us are scrambling for finishing our jobs, so I get wrote up once again, for not haning vanc when the labs where not back, was told I should have kept calling the lab every little bit until I got the results, in fact, I would have done this, but I had medications to pass within the allotted legal time, call lights to answer, peg tubes to flush, blood sugars to get, pain medications managed, plus on top of this a fall that led me to doing 4 pages of paperwork on top of doing the charting for 18-20 residents. So I cannot get it all done and I am in trouble, they are going to let me go. So I have decided to leave them and smile doing so knowing Lifecare may be new, but it still will have the issues all nursing homes have, and will lose great nurses if they continue to allow supervisors to be unkind, unhelpful, rude and speak in an unhelping way. I wanted help and could not receive it here. I am leaving and hoping I can find my happy again. I have been so sad for the last 2 months. I pray I can find it again. I am a good nurse, I need more experience, yes, but they also knew this when hiring me. Don't work here. They will lie to you, and cut you loose if you don't meet some crazy expectations!!!
I want to take the time to say how sad I have been the last 2 1/2 months from working at LifeCare Center in Blount County, TN. This is a beautiful new building, but the administration staff are horrible to work for. If you don't suck up then you are put out in the cold, I am not this type gal. I cannot possibly do enough to please these people even though my residents loved me and hugged me often, smiling, and cut up with me. I will miss them, but I cannot take the attitude any longer with these people. My immediate boss has so much sarcasim that I want to scream, my other boss says I need to do more like I have the extra time to keep calling the pharmacy, even when a fall occurred and all of us are scrambling for finishing our jobs, so I get wrote up once again, for not haning vanc when the labs where not back, was told I should have kept calling the lab every little bit until I got the results, in fact, I would have done this, but I had medications to pass within the allotted legal time, call lights to answer, peg tubes to flush, blood sugars to get, pain medications managed, plus on top of this a fall that led me to doing 4 pages of paperwork on top of doing the charting for 18-20 residents. So I cannot get it all done and I am in trouble, they are going to let me go. So I have decided to leave them and smile doing so knowing Lifecare may be new, but it still will have the issues all nursing homes have, and will lose great nurses if they continue to allow supervisors to be unkind, unhelpful, rude and speak in an unhelping way. I wanted help and could not receive it here. I am leaving and hoping I can find my happy again. I have been so sad for the last 2 months. I pray I can find it again. I am a good nurse, I need more experience, yes, but they also knew this when hiring me. Don't work here. They will lie to you, and cut you loose if you don't meet some crazy expectations!!!
I would be very careful about posting where you work...and this is a school nurse forum. You might want to move to another forum, sans the identifier.
DEgalRN
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You guys area great! I agree with everyone that having this group has made my transition into school nursing much easier! The wealth of knowledge and just understanding is amazing!