Mean director

School nurse jobs are really hard to come by. People wait for years for a position to open up. Are you sure this head nurse is not retiring come fall, hence the opening?

In any event, I am sure that there's a whole lot of school levels in which she is in charge of. So I am not sure that you would be spending copious amounts of time with her.

Never the less, remember, how someone acts in off time is not always reflective of how someone acts at work. She may be professional to a fault at school, and "lets her hair down" and turns off her filter out of school.

I only deal with my supervisor if I need something or she has a question for me. There is only one nurse per building in my district and I am able to run my building without many issues. Therefore, less issues = less contact with supervisor. Although, I do love our supervisor and all the nurses I work with. :-)

I rarely have contact with my nurse supervisor, phone or email for questions as they arise. I would take the job since like the others have said, school nurse openings are few and far between.

You actually have a nurse supervisor?

One thing that might be helpful would be if you could find out who left the job before you applied. Maybe that person left because this woman made her life very difficult.

Once I applied for a clinic job. It just so happened that I knew the nurse who had worked there before. I contacted her and found out that it was a very toxic work environment. That was very useful and I decided not to take that job.

Thanks everyone! I appreciate all the good advice.

Emergent, this is a new school in the district so I'm not replacing someone who left.

I think I'll go ahead and try it. There are a lot of schools in the district so she probably won't be able to spend too much time with me.