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Pennsylvania is a compact state. I have a Maryland RN license, and I want to have clinicals in Pennsylvania for my NP degree. Do I need to get a Pennsylvania license?

I have another two weeks until I'm back in the health office. Then another week until the kids are back in school.

I know an LPN who worked in L&D for 20 years in the Southwest area of Pennsylvania but that was about 10 years ago. As others have mentioned, you should check your area if they hire LPN's in L&D.

You should try school health or case management.

Last year I busy to till the very end. This year I am so caught up that I'm looking at allnurses threads all day. I finished sending letters for med pick up and med orders. End of the year stats are almost done. Supply orders are done. Teacher packets for next year done. 12th grade files are all stored in boxes and ready to be put in storage. I don't have to do much cleaning up because my high school will be used for summer school.

You are like me. I was in med/surg then emergency but I longed for the M-F work week in my previous career. I had no peds experience but the hiring manager said that I have two kids so it's good enough for her. You'll do great!

You could hire a lawyer to help you. I knew someone who paid for his education using credit cards. He had 2 credit cards with a debt of $20,000 each for a total of $40,000. He hired a lawyer who threatened the credit card companies with bankruptcy; therefore, they should each take a final $2,000 payment or get nothing if he declares bankruptcy. One of the credit card companies accepted and the other took a final payment of $5,000. This savvy man eventually became a VP of a major hospital system. I know someone else who tried this without using a lawyer and it did not work for him. I am working on my fourth degree and I never had student loans. My first degree cost less than $10,000 from a state school in the early 1990's. My family was too poor to co-sign a loan and I was too stupid to know how to obtain the right loan. I was fortunate to marry the right woman who paid for my other degrees without needing student loans. So my different options are to threaten bankruptcy or marry someone with money.

Welcome to School Health! Remember that ice packs cures everything. Read the the threads in school nurses. You could clean a lot from them. Also see the video for Barb G. She has a lot of good pointers.

Don't get angry. Maybe she was thinking that you could do some maggot therapy in the health office. Some of the students may have dead skin on their wounds that need to be cleaned. Lol! Your story reminded me of the time I left tapped lice on the supervisor's desk for her to see but then some of the lice escaped and crawled on her desk. I got yelled at for that.

I agree that it is important to have color coded keys. I was a "new" sub in a non-busy school. I had a diabetic student feeling low and tested with a BG of 20 something but all his emergency carbs were locked up. I had trouble finding out which of the zillion keys opened the cabinet. This was my first time having a diabetic with a BG below 60 so I panicked and tried to open up the cabinet with my super strength. Unfortunately, I didn't have super strength. The student casually took glucose tabs from another diabetic's supply.

In Montgomery County, MD the school nurses are called school community health nurses. They put SCHN next to their name.

I love poop stories. Somebody please start a new thread called Poop Stories. I'm sure everyone here has many poo experiences.

Make a note for the sub of which students forget to come to the health office for medications and where they usually are when they get their meds (ex. before 1st lunch, or after 2nd grade recess). You can remind these students to remember.

I'm looking forward to my vacation at Myrtle Beach, SC for a week in July. The hardest thing I'll do this summer is being a chauffeur for my 2 kids going to baseball, basketball and robotics camps. I'm also taking 2 online classes for my Master's degree then I'll be done with all my core courses. When I have time, I'll be trying to make my nurse friends at the hospital jealous by taking selfies at the community pool and bragging about how I have 2 months off with my kids.

As a favor, another nurse asked me to give discharge papers to a patient who was also a doctor in the hospital. When I went into the room the wife said "hey it's a male nurse!" The doctor said, in a grumpy way, do you say "hey it's a female doctor" when you see one? A little argument ensued followed by silence. I can sense the argument will continue at home.