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LOL of course not! They put me there so they didn't have to pay a sub. I am the lowest on the totem pole here too, on their salary list my job is below bus drivers. I have breakfast duty, lunch duty, after school duty, and they have placed me on every committee in the school. I am head chair of all the wellness committees for the district and I am the lowest paid person on campus. I try to keep my spirits up because the hours are incomparable to any other nursing position but my gosh do they take advantage. There have been many times I come into this school like...NOPE and start job searching when I get home and then I remember the 12 hour shifts, working the holidays, finding a sitter for the summers and all other breaks...and then I come back and suck it up haha. It helps to vent though!

Thank you all for your concerns and replies! This has helped me so much, our subs are not required to have a degree or any education other than a good reference and background check! I did teach and did real work with them, but if I ever have to do it again I will do more free time things because...well, my nerves. I found a job description in the file cabinet from 2007 haha and it does not state at all for me to sub or fill in classrooms other than teaching on a health subject. I will bring this to my supervisors attention today. I do believe the situation has worked itself out and it is quite humerus. I don't have subs for my position at all, so when I am out the secretary has to do my job. Yesterday tons of kids got into ants and she had to deal with them all afternoon with their little ant bites. She told the principal yesterday to get a sub for the class because she never wants to do my job again! I laughed so hard. So today, they have a sub and I am in my office! I love how the Lord always has my back. Thank you all for your support because if I had to do it again today, I would be job searching!

My thoughts exactly! I had to tell a couple of teachers no they csnt send students in here for me to check heads! Jeeze

Thank you for the advice. I have requested a job description and no we are not required to have a sub license. Okay I am not the lowest paid but very very close lol. Again thank you all for the support

No I do not have a teaching degree, I have never even been a substitute for a school district. All we have here is principals and a superintendent. I don't have HR I was hired by the superintendent. I have requested a job description to see if it is in there but I can't imagine it would be. I am doing my job too lol, they are sending the kids to me in the classrooms as well as the teachers and everyone else who needs something from me. Thank you for commenting. I need prayers not to be irritated, I don't want the kids to feel my stress, but I know they are because I am stressed! Thank you for the support, I love this board!

I never received a job description...but no, I bet if I do some digging in the previous nurses files I will find her job description. None of the employees that have worked here said that the previous nurse ever subbed in classrooms. I have had to sub in Kindergarten and now today 3rd and I seriously want to cry. I hate it. I am so discouraged, I have so much I need to get done in my own job and I can't. I am also head of all the wellness committees, they have put me on so many different committees I can't keep up. I have to sub again tomorrow. I was told this today when I got to work!

Hello, I am a school nurse for a smaller district, I am the only nurse between two campuses and we have approx. 800 students total. Twice now I have came to work to find out that I will be in a classroom all day. Is this the norm? Ya'll...I am not teacher material. I started out as a pre-k teacher and learned real quick I do not like being in the classrooms, hence I changed my major to registered nurse. I love my hours and the Holidays with my own kids, but this is wearing on me. I do two or three different jobs and only get paid for one..HALF of what I would make anywhere else. Seriously, I bet I am paid lower than any of the nurses here LOL ..I'm griping but I'm stressed, please someone comfort me!

Thank you for your response! Yes both my daugther and this student attend the school I work at. Thank you for your advice. I knew it wasn't going to be easy but I know the student needs help and I think your order of things will work out better than if I went to the parent first, so thank you!

Unfortunately we have a lot of this in our school as well. I wanted to share my experience before I asked my question regarding the cutters. I grew up in a very loving home. My mother and father was very attentive to me and to this day they are still my biggest supporters and I know without a doubt they would be there for me no matter the situation. I knew this as a child too. However, school sucks, kids suck, and sometimes teacher's suck. I became numb to all the harsh criticism and just rude people. I began to self harm not for suicidal reasons but to feel something. The pain from the cut was nothing compared to the pain I was experiencing on the inside and like previous poster had stated, it is a way of letting that pain out to those who do it. Now I keep a journal. I write to let my pain out. If you truly want to be a successful nurse who helps others not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually, then you need to really let go of your close-mindedness and open your eyes and heart to others. Most of these kids will have to learn how to find another way to cope on their own due to the vast majority of self-righteous adults full of judgmental thoughts. If you think these kids don't pick up on that you are wrong. I could always tell by the body language whether this would be a person I trust or just another person to tell what they want to hear so they can go about their small minded day and leave me alone. I am not proud of what I used to do, but I am thankful for the experience because now I can truly help others. It sickens me to hear all the excuses people make up for how others handle their pain or stress. Judging their parents, beliefs, and culture. You have no idea what goes on in the mind of another and you have no idea what their home life is truly like until you show true empathy and love for that person and let them know you care about their feelings and want to help them. If you know you can't whole-heartedly do this, then do that person a favor and back off. Find a person that can help them. The last thing people in this condition need is another rude authority figure telling them they're stupid and attention seeking, and don't forget you don't have to say this with your mouth to get that point across. Now, here's my dilemma. My daughter has been raised to be empathetic and accepting of others. She has several students who come to her and talk to her about these things. Recently she disclosed one who is the child of my co-worker and friend. How can I go about this without the student finding out she is the one who told. Should I go to the parent first or the student?

My heart is broken as well, I used to be a correctional nurse and didn't feel as on edge as I do working as a school nurse, now that's sad. I agree with many of you that we need to enforce the laws we have in place now. I have mixed feelings about gun reforms. In my experience, making something illegal or hard to obtain legally does not have an effect on criminals. They will find a way, they will smuggle, they will market them on the black market, and not all people are going to give up their guns. We can't legally go and search every home and building and confiscate their guns. Drugs are illegal, yet how many parents do we have every day buying and selling these drugs? We have kids addicted to drugs, being trafficked, abused, and many other things that are illegal and yet they still occur in mass amounts every day in our country and other countries around the world. On another note, I work at a very small school, our administration has not even discussed school shootings, we don't have a drill, we only lock the front doors and like a previous poster stated, they buzz and they are let in, no questions asked. our campus also has multiple buildings at Elementary and High School and no camera's We have more kids addicted to drugs and parent's not in their children's lives than I have ever seen. Yet, no one wants to talk about the what if's. I am praying for all of your safety and ours as well. I'm am glad we have this board to discuss these matters and concerns we have.

Thank you for the quick replies! I am looking to work 2-3 weeks and would like to bring my 3 girls and still get paid...I feel like this may be a longshot but I would need to make money and not do a barter. Our school returns back to session beginning of August and from what I have found so far, most camps go well into August. Anyways, I would love to hear what options are out there that work with my needs :)

Hey, this is an old post but I am currently looking to do camp nursing and was wandering if you were still looking for nurses.

Oh dang, I haven't been documenting every kid, I will from here on out. I will be getting to go to classes to learn how to do the screenings, however, I don't know anything about the immunizations and who has what, I need to do more digging. Thank you!

Thank you all so much! It is comforting to know that I am not alone in my lack of training lol, one question, is there anything I need to know or have readily available if state were to come in or whoever does the auditing for such situations? Do you document every kid that comes through the office and what you did for them? I hope you all have a blessed day and I'm excited to be here

I am in a very small public school. I have just begun to reach out and will be meeting with a local nurse within the next couple of weeks. Thank you for your quick reply and I look forward to reading through this board and getting to know my role here in the school. You are definitely right about my co-workers being education oriented. I only have 3 students in the whole school who take meds and the rest of my day is filled with trying to dig through old files and figure out what my duties are ha. I look forward to talking with you all here on this board and thanks again for the advice and encouragement!

Thank you both for your replies, I have hope that it won't always be like this lol. I look forward to learning more about my role and making my presence known. Thanks again for the encouragement.

Hello board, I am new to this specialty. I accepted this job beginning of the month, I came in to no school nurse on campus. No training, the only training I have received is a piece of paper with my daily routine and deadlines for my screenings. I have called coops to get set up with my certifications and am having a hard time finding anyone still doing the classes, so much so, that one will have to come to me for a one on one in screening certifications but not for another month! I can't meet the deadlines, I have no idea what I am doing with documenting, screenings, ect. I do know who gets what meds and when but that is about it. I feel so discouraged and I am used to excelling at my job. The staff barely talks to me and I am definitely not included in all the activities that go on within the building. Please just make me feel better. I want to keep this job as it is where my kids go and it's of course the perfect hours. I just need guidance!

Hello, I too am a new school nurse, I started 3 weeks ago, the nurse I replaced was well known and liked, she actually grew up here and went to this same small school. I feel so lonely, no one really talks to me when I work at the high school, they are used to not having a nurse so the kids won't even come to me they go to the secretary if they have a headache and she just comes and gets whatever they need. I feel useless. I am used to being needed and wanted and working in a fast paced environment to feeling so unimportant and not wanted. HELP! I am so glad I have found this board and hope to get to know you all as I adjust to this isolation I am feeling.