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The school district where I work has recently started using PLC's (Professional Learning Communities). I am looking for information from other nurses whose schools use PLC's and the involvement of the nurse in those PLC's.

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We are going to start implicating PLC's...here's a great website with blogs, statistics, and information!

AllThingsPLC — Research, education tools and blog for building a professional learning community

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There is a lot of excellent information on that website! However, can you direct me to an area on that website that speaks of PLC for school nurses? I have been unable to find information linking PLC and school nursing.

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.

We were fortunate enough at my last district to have enough nurses that we became our own PLC. We worked on vaccination compliance one year and coordinating with the food services people to get accessable online the ingredients and nutritional info for the food products served in the schools.

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Specializes in Adult ICU/PICU/NICU.

The way our district works PLCs is a top down mandate. The teachers complain that it takes away from time in their classroom preparation where they spin their wheels and get nothing done except complete more paper work. The school nurses are placed in a PLC with the guidance counselors, the school social worker, the school psychologist and some special needs teachers. I am just a sub, so I don't participate but I haven't met any teacher or school nurse who feels they are productive. PLCs are the biggest complaint topic in the teachers loungue this year....more so than then the kids themselves.

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