NYnursejo

NYnursejo has 12 years experience and specializes in community, home health, ob-gyn, school.

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1. Peds certification vs ambulatory cert

   NYnursejo replied to NYnursejo's topic in School

   LOL, I had forgotten all about NBCSN. I am currently working on my BSN so I know that I am not eligible for that one quite yet. Thanks for reminding me about this because that is definately an option in the future.

2. Peds certification vs ambulatory cert

   NYnursejo posted a topic in School

   Hello all, many of you know that both the school nurse certification and community health nurse cert were retired some years ago thru ANCC. I have over twelve years experience in mostly an outpatient community health setting... clinic(peds/adults), h...

3. How busy are you?

   NYnursejo replied to ColleenJune's topic in School

   High school 9-12th 1800+ students 2 RN's (thank goodness) 10-40/ day mostly sports related injuries,asthma, diabetes, stomach aches, cramps, sore thoats.

4. What are you ??

   NYnursejo replied to Keepstanding's topic in School

   A little of both...depends on student needs, sometimes they need a lil TLC and they are good, others need a more stern tude then their good.

5. need your valuable help again pls

   NYnursejo replied to rdsxfnrn's topic in School

   In Our district we have a small pass in triplecate form 1 copy for h/o, 1 for parent, 1 for teacher, so the teacher has to write in her own words why she is sending the student, along with name, date...and we write a small blurb on the bottom half of...

6. Parents won't send inhaler to school

   NYnursejo replied to pvtschoolnurse's topic in School

   I will call Md and tell them I have a med order without the med d/t parent non-compliance and DOCUMENT. If I have a student with a documented history of asthma and he/she has had one too many visits to the health office and parent yes's u to death or...

7. Parents won't send inhaler to school

   NYnursejo replied to pvtschoolnurse's topic in School

   I tend to call the PMD and tell them I received their med order but parent has been non-compliant with dropping off med...and of DOCUMENT. If I don't have orders and I have a documented history from the MD of asthma and that child has made one to man...

8. Spare clothing

   NYnursejo replied to Keepstanding's topic in School

   I agree with the above posters, Most of our teachers are donating their childrens clothes once they have outgrown it, All teachers send a notice at the start of the school year about a spare set of clothing, most of them are really good about remindi...

9. Can barely survive on this salary

   NYnursejo replied to NYnursejo's topic in School

   Thank you all very much, I was actually considering agency work too, which I am leary about since I have been out of the hospital for 6 years now. I did home health up until the beginning of this year and stopped because they wouldnt let me split my ...

10. Can barely survive on this salary

    NYnursejo posted a topic in School

    This is the start of my 2nd year in school nursing, starting salary was about 54K (not bad) but a decrease in about 10k yearly for me. It was going ok, but my husband had been out of work since Febuary just found a new job this week (yea) but also a ...

11. policy on throwing up

    NYnursejo replied to frann's topic in School

    In our school if the child has issues with vomiting and it is not r/t to any type of health condition and it has caused a few absences we ask the parent get an MD note stating Child has "weak stomach" or something to that affect. I had a little girl ...

12. What's the weirdest baby name?

    NYnursejo replied to teresab_2000's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Really old post, but this stuff never gets old...Im from NY so crazy names are the norm around here: Female pronounced, FEE maly mom thought the hospital named her daughter. Treasure Palace Sterling Silver Fardy Yeastrid Ufuk Funny, but very sad for...

13. Thank you fellow school nurses!

    NYnursejo replied to SchoolNurseBSN's topic in School

    Wow that is pretty much a day in the life of a school nurse in a nut shell...Thank you.

14. Just a rant

    NYnursejo replied to Calibean's topic in School

    I agree with all the previous posters, You can definately scout out surrounding schools but I think that this is the nature of the beast with this specialty, Your autonomous, lonely, overworked and go unrecognized. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy what I ...

15. Does your school have an NP also?

    NYnursejo replied to vagabonder1's topic in School

    Hey there, I work at a pre-k and k school of over 800 students with an NP, we are both full-time. She does run out of the office often because she is the NP for the entire district, she writes up scripts for children who need services (ot,pt, speech)...