New School Nurse!!

[rmgilb]

hello all! i have been a pediatric nurse in the hospital for 2 and 1/2 years now and i today i just accepted a job as a school nurse! does anyone have any advice for me? any websites that would be helpful for me to review or any books that would help me? besides a couple of clinicals in nursing school, i have never been in the school setting as a nurse! i am very excited about this new opportunity! any and all advice is appreciated!! thank you!

[ford0605]

Hi ChesapeakeRN,

I am also starting out brand new in the school nurse role, and I also have K-12 kids split between two schools. I'm actually back working in the school system that I graduated from, and that is sort of an advantage I think. We're public though. Everyone has been really great so far. Monday will start my first full week (the kids came back this past Tuesday and I was just working half days because I was finishing up my last days at my old job), so I'm ready to hit the ground running! I'm finding there was some organization in some places but not really a lot of information or "clues" left behind for me to take an idea and say "oh, this would be helpful, maybe I can tweak it and make it work for me".

How is everyone doing with immunizations? I'm ok with handling my kindergarten files, but I'm wondering if I need to check every grade to make sure nothing was missed? I'm going to get everyone caught up on their paper health file first to make sure I don't have to keep any kids out of school, and then I think I'll take the time to input them in the computer at my convenience. Think this is a good attack plan?

Looking forward to swapping ideas!!

Jessika