Not a school nurse but...

[Rose_Queen]

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?

[OldDude]

"Pics or it didn't happen."

- says every 8th grade boy, ever.

I'm working on that

[Farawyn]

I'm working on that

So you say.

[huffmannurse]

^ Denise, we are wearing pink on Wednesdays!

I have my pink shirt all picked out and ready to go. I think I am supposed to wear red and green to go with the festivities. But, maybe I will just incorporate some red and green socks.

OldDudeWiseOne should be right in style and festive at the same time with his red shirt on.

MrNurse(x2)- What is your designated color?

Rose Queen- It has been so much fun. That I was chuckling to myself driving to work, just thinking about what serious subject matter our cozy little learning community would be addressing today.

I have got to get some work done today. I can't hang out here "learning" all day.

[MrNurse(x2), ADN]

I'm working on that

You know what I said about supportive.........?

[Farawyn]

You know what I said about supportive.........?

"Don't be an athlete! Be an athletic supporter!"

[MrNurse(x2), ADN]

I have my pink shirt all picked out and ready to go. I think I am supposed to wear red and green to go with the festivities. But, maybe I will just incorporate some red and green socks.

OldDudeWiseOne should be right in style and festive at the same time with his red shirt on.

MrNurse(x2)- What is your designated color?

Rose Queen- It has been so much fun. That I was chuckling to myself driving to work, just thinking about what serious subject matter our cozy little learning community would be addressing today.

I have got to get some work done today. I can't hang out here "learning" all day.

I have red on today, festive you know?

[Farawyn]

PINK!!! Real men wear pink, dontcha know?

[huffmannurse]

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

I think I just felt the need to wash my eye balls out.

[kbrn2002, ADN, RN]

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.

I just don't understand that. Sadly I get the same thing as a LTC nurse. Apparently if you are not either an ER or ICU nurse you are not a real nurse in some people's eyes. Fortunately not everybody thinks that way.

I have some friends that are school nurses, and gotta say no way would I do that job for the pittance it pays. Our school district pays for crap, and thanks to the prior stellar benefits being shaved down to also crap it is definitely not a place I'd be going to work.

[huffmannurse]

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.

YESSSSSS to all of this!! You are speaking my language :) Woop-Woop!

[Flare, ASN, BSN]

I have red on today, festive you know?

Is it longsleeve? Did you and OldDude coordinate?

[Farawyn]

YESSSSSS to all of this!! You are speaking my language :) Woop-Woop!

Your language is "Woop-Woop"?