schoolrn

We have standing orders from a local doc. If you still do not have anything, get me your mailing address and I can send you a copy of ours. We still have permission forms from parents and we notify them of anything we deem pertinent, but having a doctor's protocol sure helps. schoolrn

This job is like any other. It can be great, not so great, or awful. I work from 7:45 until 4 or 5 everyday. I have been sent to meetings on my days off, and I am put on every committee ever heard of. I do grant work on my own time, have been callled at home on my sick days, and even had a staff member send a parent to my house when I was off on a personal day! I am required to do summer school and most of my CEU meetings are during the time I am supposed to be on vacation. I have done this for 10 years and am just now making what I was making when I left my last job as weekend supervisor at a local SNF. I have decided it is time to listen to my husband when he tells me that the longer I do this, the more responsibility I am given, the more is expected and the pay stays the same. Right now I am the only RN for three small districts, we are partially funded by a grant, I have to apply for, and write the grant each year, and then do everything the BOE wants, plus meet all the goals the state sets. I guess it depends on how much money your district has, the hours you work, and if you take stuff home. I have WAY more work now than I ever did at the hospital, and at least as much as when I was at the SNF. Janet

I was an LPN before I became an Rn and it made it so much easier. I took a bridge program to get my ADN and it only took half as long. Then I took non nursing prereqs while I worked as an RN and that way I only have nursing courses left to get my BSN and I can do all of it online because of my background.I did find that most of the LPN's were treated differently by the instructors-we were actually told on the first day of clinicals that we would be expected to "excel" after all we all had already been licensed once and we should be able to prove that we had retained our prior knowledge-even though most of the stuff was as new to us as to any oter student in the class.