nursex23 BSN, RN

Back in January I applied and got an email from a recruiter asking when I was available for an interview. Unfortunately, I had signed a contract with another company that morning so I let her know that I was interested in the company but I had just s...

Hi school nurses! I'm a new school nurse and I've been having an influx of students saying they're dizzy. No other signs or symptoms. They deny hitting their head. Some say they've ate breakfast, some say they haven't. I always offer the snack and mo...

Woah! I swear this could have been written by me! I just hit my 3 years as a nurse and for the past 2, I've been in a middle school. Everything I disliked about school nursing is getting so much worse with covid. Yesterday I got an email from a recru...

I've decided to leave school nursing - it's just not for me. I don't want to leave them without a nurse right now so I was planning on staying for the rest of the school year. I applied to a peds clinic for PRN with the hopes of going full time in th...

Hey thanks for the response! I could definitely give a 2 week notice. Maybe even a little longer. I'll probably end up calling the clinic back today.

I'm a school nurse for a district that is remote and will stay remote until at least mid-January. It's been very slow and I was thinking of applying for a seasonal job in retail. My question is how should I go about applying? Should I tell them that ...

Thanks for the responses! I just don't want them to pass my application up by being considered over qualified or for them to think that I work with COVID patients and pass me up over that.

Hi everyone! Has anyone on here ever had a 504 in place for a student with leukemia? What sort of accommodations were on there? What are some accommodations could be on there for virtual learning?

Thank you so much! Our district spent all Summer prepping for in person learning and last minute switched to remote. EVERYONE is unprepared and soooo many of our kids are falling behind. We (social workers and I) thought remote learning might be bett...

We are virtual but the student says they have a hard time even signing into the computer. I was told we won't do homebound tutoring because of covid. There's really no orders. I talked to the student and the hospital social worker and we identified ...

I left a year ago to work in a school. It's not the perfect job but it's 1000x better than working in a hospital, at least for me.

I did not. I ended up finding something outside of L&D that works best for my family and me.

Hi everyone. I’m a newer nurse with 6 months of experience in acute care. I’m trying to leave my current facility; it’s a sinking ship and it’s just getting worse and worse. I know it looks bad leaving after 6 months so I really want my next job to w...

It happens pretty often that students forget their inhalers (MS). Every time it's happened there was no distress, O2 sats were mid to high 90s, mild wheezing and every other time someone was able to bring the inhaler within a reasonable time. But yes...

I called dad and told him that we don't have an action plan in place and that the student NEEDS to be bringing her inhaler to school or she can leave one here. Dad said, "well she doesn't really have asthma, she grew out of it but when she gets out o...

I would have stopped that teacher dead in his tracks and told him to stop saying that. I would have told him too, "even if you had more serious symptoms, you need to not be saying that." I feel BLESSED that the teachers at my school are not freaking ...

I tell other students that only a teacher can send me students to be checked so they can bring it up to the teacher discreetly if they are concerned. I also tell them that they should be careful talking about other students because they wouldn't like...

I have 56 more school days and 88 more sleeps until it's over.

The teacher did mention that there was a school nurse. It may have been a non licenced person to assist with small health issues and that may explain why the "nurse" didn't do anything. At least that's what I'd like to think happened there and there ...

Too many kids were coming in without passes so I started enforcing this policy more after winter break as the principal said I should when I first started. Yesterday a student came without a pass and gave me his shirt tag and said his gym teacher tol...

I would have just left for the day! You can't go back to work after that! I always let the secretaries know that I'm going on lunch but I'll be in my office so call if they need anything. Do you feel comfortable enough telling them when you're going ...

YOU NEED TO FILE A POLICE REPORT!!! This needs to be on record in case she becomes violent or vandalizes your car.

?‍♀️ I wouldn't mind as long as I'm not the one they're going to look at if it becomes infected. All you can do is educate and document.

Long story short I worked for a nursing home as as CNA when I was in college. I gave the ADON my availability which consisted of 6 different shifts throughout the week. I was part time so I had to work 3 shifts a week. I even indicated on my availabi...

Does anyone know of any sort of flow sheet that could visually guide everyone about what injuries do and don't need ice?