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What are the teachers wearing?

I did!!! Thanks for the correction!!

Mrs H, thanks for your post and your viewpoint, but please speak for yourself and not the generation. You are two years younger than me and I have never seen a cap worn in any clinical or K - 12 school setting in my entire career following graduati...

I wore washable collared shirt, slacks or skirt and had a lab or scrub coat I put on for the dirty stuff. I also kept a sport jacket hung behind the door for meetings. The only thing I changed about that for casual Fridays was I wore the school col...

Interact with them as much as possible. Keep them engaged. The first day of class collect their anonymous ideas of what they want to learn. My 8th grade health teacher every week handed out a paper that each student had to put a question on and ha...

So if the normal load is 5 classes and you are teaching 4, you are only a .2 school nurse. The recommended ratio is 1 FTE RN:750 , so the school nurse job is already a full time role with 800 students. So your prorated ratio is 1:4000 Definitely co...

I was just asked the same question by someone else, and this is my list in order of priority: Join NASN http://www.nasn.org Lexi Comp Pediatric Dosage Handbook AAP Red Book AAP Managing Chronic Health Needs in Child Care and Schools AAP Managing Infe...

I think preferring the little kids or middle schoolers is a personality thing - plusses to both. Your assessment skills have to be better for the young ones. They cannot always articulate what they are feeling. " Also, is it a bad sign that they ...

"They are hiring nurses for most of their campuses and I don't know why. Is this a bad sign? " That is a good good sign, not a bad sign. Were you interviewed by any nurses? So interviewed by people who know the job? Did you ask about the orientati...

That sounds unusually high

- diplomas - National school nurse certification - just a nurse poster - http://www.suzannegordon.com/?page_id=28 - a 30 year old poster "nurses still make house calls" - Sigma Theta Tau nurse Leader poster

Please tell us how things work out - good for you for increasing your education!!!!! Welcome back!!!

I have never worn scrubs outside the ICU or OR. I was in 3 airports this week - all the cleaning people wore scrubs. I do not see students in my school nurse job right now, but when I did I wore business casual. 43% of school nurses wear scrubs 49% w...

I am going to quote a boss I had: "Everyone thinks they know what a school nurse does because they have been to school." Your "support group" has no idea what a school nurse does. And they don't know what it is like to be the only health professiona...

The administrators are trying to save school nurse positions. They are being creative.

I have actually had to do this when changing state licenses, track down each employer and supervisor. It took me 3 days. It is not unusual for pay rates to be based on full time work experience, with part time work prorated. So if you worked 2 ye...

If you decide to take it, find out what kind of support and mentoring you will be getting? If you need help or a second opinion, will another experienced RN be available to take your call?

Congratulations@@#!@@ Welcome!

Show up in the front office with your suitcase of work, antibacterial hand wipes and a smile and dig in. If this is the only way to save your job, make the best of it and it might be a great way to solve the age old problem of "no one knows what I do...

My husband relocates often for his job. Three times I accepted acute care positions after being in school nursing or quality improvement, out of the hospital setting, the longest stretch was 6 years. I was very anxious. Every time, within 2 weeks...

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No words of wisdom. But HRSA includes college nurses as school nurses: http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/rnsurveys/rnsurveyfinal.pdf

" The only thing I imagine would be a bit odd is to have a male nurse midwife in OB." My OB nurse faculty in nursing school in the 70s was a male nurse midwife. He was great.

Same!!! It is great to put a face to a name - thanks for speaking up!!

The average 2008 school nurse pay for an RN is $46,416 a year. http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/rnsurveys/rnsurveyfinal.pdf