Not a school nurse but...

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You guys are freaking hilarious! I may just have to come hang out here with the cool kids. It makes me glad I work with the unconscious patient population. And why aren't all of you over on the blue side?

i have a pink thong for special occasions, I'll wear that, on the outside, just because I'm a team player

"Pics or it didn't happen."

- says every 8th grade boy, ever.

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Specializes in School nursing.
Then you can't sit with us at lunch.

Well, duh, how many of us get the pleasure of un-interrupted lunch anyway...

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i have my pink panther scrub shirt on today... sooo fetch

Hot pink top, black scrub pants.

P!nk, Just Like A Pill

WCW, Hump Day! Woohoo! So FETCH.

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Specializes in IMC, school nursing.

Sorry, pink isn't my color. I have travelled off the school nurse's site, it is pretty nasty out there. I'll stay here where people are supportive of one another. Thanks all.

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Sorry, pink isn't my color. I have travelled off the school nurse's site, it is pretty nasty out there. I'll stay here where people are supportive of one another. Thanks all.

Aw. Blue is nice. :sorry:

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Specializes in IMC, school nursing.
Aw. Blue is nice. :sorry:

Blue is my color :up: The blue room isn't bad, the other forum areas, however. I think school nurses are isolated from other nurses and that makes for a less competitive environment. I am always sickened by the culture at my hospital that is constantly criticizing. Nurses really do try to eat their own.

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Specializes in kids.
Well, duh, how many of us get the pleasure of un-interrupted lunch anyway...

For the win!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Specializes in Peds, Oncology.
Blue is my color :up: The blue room isn't bad, the other forum areas, however. I think school nurses are isolated from other nurses and that makes for a less competitive environment. I am always sickened by the culture at my hospital that is constantly criticizing. Nurses really do try to eat their own.

This is true. A fellow school nurse called me very upset and almost in tears the other day because a parent who is a hospital nurse told her she wasn't a "real nurse" because she was a school nurse and not a hospital nurse, and that her assessment was worthless. That nurse had 16 years of ICU experience and took a severe pay cut to come to school nursing and is a RN, BSN. Sadly, this is often how we are treated by other nurses. What a lot of them don't realize is that we are all highly experienced RN's, and most of us left bedside nursing to come to our positions.

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Specializes in School Nursing, Hospice,Med-Surg.
This is true. A fellow school nurse called me very upset and almost in tears the other day because a parent who is a hospital nurse told her she wasn't a "real nurse" because she was a school nurse and not a hospital nurse, and that her assessment was worthless. That nurse had 16 years of ICU experience and took a severe pay cut to come to school nursing and is a RN, BSN. Sadly, this is often how we are treated by other nurses. What a lot of them don't realize is that we are all highly experienced RN's, and most of us left bedside nursing to come to our positions.

Meh, a parent can call me a "not real" nurse all he or she wants. Then I can laugh all the way home at 3 pm every day when the school bell rings. AND when I wake up on the weekends and I don't have to go into work. And on holidays, too. And summers, snow days, and...well, you get the point.

Doesn't hurt my feelings at all. If working at the hospital again and doing all the ridiculous hours and tasks involved is what entails being a "real nurse" then I'll just continue being a "fake" one, thankyouverymuch.

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.

We all know the real truth. There's nothing like seeing 60 plus kids a day for various reasons, plus fielding countless phone calls, dealing with parents after parent (god - that's a job in and of itself), sports physicals, worker's comp filings, and just keeping details on hunderds of students on the top of your head like some sort of super computer. And that just scratches the surface. That doesn't even get into an emergency in the day or a real crisis in the building.

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Specializes in IMC, school nursing.

I had friends who are school nurses, one at a special needs districted school. I never felt that school nurses were not real nurses. Should I come to a place where income was not an issue, I would do this as a volunteer. The hours are a definite draw, but the kids are the real perk. My hospital job that I have done my whole career? See ya'.

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I love the other boards. Maybe I'm NETY.

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