staciestitches

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1. Advice for ICU nurse to get into school nursing.

   staciestitches replied to sockov's topic in School

   www.nysasn.org Go to this site and look on the left. Go under conferences. The orientation is listed there. The final details are not on there yet but contact info is listed. I went this past summer and learned so much. The women are so helpful and r...

2. Advice for ICU nurse to get into school nursing.

   staciestitches replied to sockov's topic in School

   I was an ICU nurse for 15 years and this year just started school nursing. It is nothing like what I have done and the first thing that they taught me at the school nurse conference was to not look at things like I used to. This is public health nurs...

3. Field trips and medicine and diabetics

   staciestitches posted a topic in School

   How do you deal with a student that goes on a field trip and requires a fingerstick with coverage? Ideally I would like the mom to go. I am not sure that will happen though. I think that I would have to go because I would be having to dispense a medi...

4. mandating school nurses

   staciestitches replied to Martha Louise's topic in School

   How do they get around the "diagnosing" part of it? I think there is too much leeway around the interpretation of the law. Very sad. Stac

5. Just starting a school nurse position

   staciestitches posted a topic in School

   I am a RN that has worked in a local ICU for 14 years. I recently accuired a school nurse postition. I am well aware that this new position is very different from what I am doing. I have been trying to look into resources and books that would be help...