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The school I am at has a policy that for 3 consecutive days absent in addition to parent written reason, the student is required to have a doctor's note with a return date to school in order for the absence to be excused (this is under the excused ab...

This happened to me. Student comes down as soon as the school starts c/o headache. No fever doesn't not look under the weather let them rest and return to class. I offer the student to come back around lunch time if not feeling better. Student comes ...

Hey OP I am in my 2nd year as a school nurse and have 10 years of high risk ob. It does take time and self guidance to get use to the culture and environment of the school system which is very different than the healthcare world. While I like school ...

This week one of the teachers notified the princ. that they were infected. Princ. Asked my opinion about it. Reviewed the students in the school vaccine status and shared with princ. To my knowledge what the immunization status of the school is a...

I have to say every time I'm having a bad day whether it's parents, teacher, students, or adminstrators I just come to this forum and makes me feel better! Its hard when you don't have someone in the same profession/specialty to share your gripe. Las...

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I certainly cannot send my kids to college if I continue to do school nursing when they are that age.Even though we are on the teachers retirement plan is it doable at retirement age? Our scale caps out at 16years and its still $10,000 less than what...

When they come to me because their arm has been hurting over the weekend and I go through the whole thing about did you tell your parents. I gently remind them that the health office is not an urgent care center. I cannot see past your skin and canno...

Hello all! I am drowning in paperwork and junior high sports clearances that I don't even have a handle on students with new issues uughh. How do you go about sports clearances? Right now I have each roster where I put if the student is medically cle...

Love you Farawyn . I just can't deal. My system is similar to yours expect for the permissionext slips and I'm responsible for the junior high school as well as high school. I also worked 5 days I the summer. I think I going to have to talk to my ad...

Hello my fellow school nurses, I was approached by one of the HS assistant principals regarding a 12th grader who they think looks like she might be pregnant. Thie issue is that they want me to meet with the student and inquire about if she is pregna...

Thank you all for your support and thoughts. Like I said before this has definitely been a lesson learned as a new school nurse. All the concerns everyone voiced were my same concerned and made aware to admin. this situation stayed with me the whole ...

Update: The nurse in the other district sent me the lawyer guidance memo which does state that parents are to be notified if students under 21 are pregnant. According to NYSED that is their guidance as well despite a supreme court ruling of a school ...

I spoke with the guidance counselor today and apparently the school lawyer's have stated that the school is to notify the parents if the student is pregnan even if she is 18. So I guess I have to be intrusive.

@BeachyRN2Be those are my thoughts exactly. I have access to the students attendance record. I am going to do a little investigative work and contact her guidance counselor to see if the student is in jeopardy of not graduating. If not I don't see...

Hey Farawyn, I am well, miss you too !

Hello, I just started as a school nurse for a JR/HS school with over 1200 students. I already had an almost 911 emergency which was scary ! There is very little guidance as far as policy and procedures. For example, a student was referred to me by gu...

I check monthly. We have one on each floor. The 1st floor one is outside my office and the 2nd and 3rd are located in the same area right above my office. One in the basement, one in the back of the gym, and 2 in the coaches office. All are in alarme...

No, but I wish there was an opportunity to teach health. I'm finishing up my Masters in Nursing Education and it would be nice to apply the teaching skills I have learned (objectives, learning theories , etc) in school nursing. I think since some ...

Hello All, I'm in a JHS/HS setting. The other day we had a couple of students being kicked out school because they did not get their delinquent immunizations in by the final deadline set by the principal. However, one parent called my office after ge...

Thank you all for your support and advice. @Blue_Moon yes the way I was spoken to was the real issue. From now I plan on asserting myself more and if it happens again I will definitely confront it in a professional manner. @Wave Watcher there is no n...

Braun Thermoscan Tympanic Thermometer- love it! The covers are inexpensive and come 200 in a box. Before I got there the nurse was using a temporal thermometer. I didn't like it because I didn't feel like it was accurate and required to much forehead...

Farawyn we are cut from the same cloth . I too do not want to deal with that kind of management again and I am very disappointed since I do like the job itself. There has been 3-4 nurses at this school in the past 3 or so years. These students did...

Congratulations! I am not familiar with NYC but, I work in NY not to far from NYC. I am also new to school nursing but, have been a nurse for 10 years in the hospital. This website helped me out a lot and is the go to for NY school nursing New York S...

I've had a teacher send a student down twice for sleeping and each time I sent her right back. By the end of the day the teacher comes in my office saying that the student sleeps in the 1st and 2nd period class. She goes on to say that sheis going to...