Christinez

Thank you so much for your valuable thoughts of my situation. I have the same concerns as you have already pointed out. If the big organization don't want a nurse in school, how much the current principal would do to prevent that happening? Even though I kept a good relationship with the principal. Like you mentioned, lying about having a new offer would just speed up the process and give them a good reason to eliminate the position faster. Consider as a nurse, I think it's going to be hard to find a new job. It's just happening at the wrong time right before my vacation, especially the hotels and airfares has been paid off. Budget of spending would be very tight for the upcoming 2 trips. Not sure if anyone knows any per-diem job opportunities to just work for a month?

I'm a LPN currently working in a private school as a school nurse. Our school was taken over by a big organization which has many locations throughout US. Most of their other locations does not have a school nurse. I had a meeting with the principal today, and I was told that the new management does not think having a school nurse is necessary for such a small school like us, so I should start looking what's out there. But then principal wants to have me promoted and try to negotiate with HR and give me a raise. I will need to send her an email and states what I have accomplished, how much efforts I've put into the school. I can indicate that I've received an offer, and I should request our school to match my offer. The principal will forward my email to HR and try to negotiate with what I've requested. I'm confused which direction is the principal heading? The problem is I've booked 2 vacations for the short school breaks. If HR declined my request, they may tell me to just take "my offer" and leave. Then I will have to find a new job. By then, either I will end up cancelling the expensive vacations or out of job for 2 months until I come back from vacation to look for a new job. Can anyone give me a thorough advice please? Many thanks!

I recently started working as a school nurse in a private school with special needs students, such as Autism and ADHD. Due to their nonverbal communications, I was constantly writing incident reports, so everything on the paper are crucial for possible future court evidence. Does anyone have a good resources of nursing care plan book or ant books or support groups I can look into it? Many thanks!