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I'm feeling so deflated right now. On Friday, I had a teacher send me a student to get checked out after falling off the monkey bars. She hit her right arm so I checked it out. No complaints of pain, I touched her arm up and down and she denied pain ...

I was notified last week that I would be getting an offer by place A. I was so excited and said "yes" though no official offer was presented, but I was told I'd get it soon. It's only been 2 business days but I haven't heard anything but expect it to...

I was offered a position on Friday, they said they'd be sending over my pay offer real soon. I have no idea what their benefits look like. Today, I was offered another position, same situation, I'm not sure of the final $ offer nor do I know anything...

You should always dress to impress in an interview. I've had to do this before and in one situation, I was lucky enough to have a boss that knew I was interviewing and she told me to clock out like 15 min early so I could change into a suit and touc...

I'm sorry for the stupid question but what is managed care, exactly? Is it referring to working with an HMO insurance company? I keep seeing this requirement pop up in some job descriptions, and I'm not positive that I can say that I have experience ...

The positions are for a large variety of areas in nursing such as utilization review, case management, health coach etc. So it sounds like it's for nurses that have worked with health insurance companies. I coordinated with case managers in my hospit...

Looking for some insight. I am currently an RN in a split elementary school position and oversee about 1100 students. Not only am I overwhelmed by the double work (2 sets of state reports, shot records, screenings, ARDs, puberty films, parents, kids,...

My front office staff is made up of 6 ppl plus they count me and counselors as part of the front office staff, so whenever there are holidays, celebrations, birthdays, random special occasions, I'm supposed to participate with them in parties, gift e...

@Kooky Korky: As a commenter after you suggested: if they remember me for money, gifts, potluck items that they need me to bring, surely they can remember me for the event?! The hungry nurse sitting right there in the office with them lol! It sucks t...

Yeah, it's like if you're going to expect money or gifts, at least include me in the occasions! And the bday thing I'm not even be mad about because it's in the summer so nothing they can do about that, but they've never even asked when it is and I'...

I'm guessing it depends on your district but my district does not have paid leave. You can take up to 12 weeks off without your job being in jeopardy, but in order to get paid you must use your vacation days, assuming you have any. Heck, even the maj...

Oooh my turn, my turn! A 4th grader came in with a pass that said "tip of nose itches". Me: "Oh wow how did you manage to break every bone in your hands?" Student: "I didn't..." Me: "Oh good, so you can scratch your own nose. Back to class!" Ok ok, t...

Hey everyone! How do you handle phantom boo boos? You know, the ones where the student comes with some random pain that just started right now while sitting in class/walking down the hall/getting ready to do something they hate (math or PE, anyone?)....

I am a new elementary school nurse this school year (though I've been a nurse for over 5 years) and I LOOOOVE my job, but I've encountered some challenges with things being sent to the nurse that should not be getting sent here. I'm seeing about 100 ...

RobinMRn, thank you for that attachment! I used info from your attachment and also asked some of the other elementary school nurses in my district for help and they sent me their PowerPoints which covered pretty much everything on your attachment too...

If a student comes to the clinic and I feel that it's necessary to send them home, the parent can sign them out from my clinic and they are counted present for the day, even if they've only been at school for a few minutes. Well, I'm having parents t...

I'm sorry I did not update sooner, it's just the Winter Break happened and I'm still getting back into the groove of things So I did end up taking this to administration who informed me and the office staff that getting signed out of the clinic cr...

I don't think they're "complicit" or trying to be fraudulent but it's definitely a problem, at least at my school, and I am planning on meeting with my admins to see if there is a way that I can get around this since the parents are taking advantage ...

The "present for the day as long as they're signed out from the clinic" rule is not my policy, it's the district policy. The only time it is counted as an absence is if I sign them out as a parental choice meaning I do not feel it's necessary to send...

Dear missmollie, It's wonderful that you've got it all figured out, and after only 6 months as a nurse! In all seriousness, anxiety at work can be a result of many issues such as hostile co-workers, unsafe patient loads, unreasonable patient/family, ...

I have 5 years of experience as an RN. 4 of those years were as a floor nurse and this past 1 year has been as an office nurse where I managed the office alone except for the 1-2 days a week that our surgeon would come in for outpatient procedures. I...

Assuming that your state allows it, if a plastic surgeon's office/dermatologist wanted to train you to administer Botox and other injectables, would you be willing to train in that and eventually inject Botox without the MD in the room?

I was offered a position with Summit Health doing health screenings and they require their employees to fill out W-9 forms because this is "contract, per diem work". I've never filled out a W-9 form, I always do W-4s, so I am unsure about which is t...

They called me about 2 days after I submitted my application and did a phone interview and sent me forms that day which I had to fill out. It took just 2 business days from then until I could see available jobs. I'm incredibly disappointed though. Th...

For my BSN, I ended up with about $11,000 in student loans and I was able to pay it all off within 5 months of graduating! I wanted to make sure that I paid it off before interest kicked in. I worked part time all through college and got a good amoun...