NurseLoveJoy88

NurseLoveJoy88 ASN, RN

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  1. Nurses STOP telling me to be a RN ! PLEASE

    NurseLoveJoy88 replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Nursing

    Well where I live and where I plan to work a new LPN will start off with 22-24 an hour and its more than what I make now so I'll be grateful:yeah: My mother has been a LPN for four years and made from...

  2. Nurses STOP telling me to be a RN ! PLEASE

    NurseLoveJoy88 replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, yes she did tell me neither her or her daughter needed to work while in nursing school so I was no assuming ! She told me that her daughter works as a shampoo girl every other weekend, just...

  3. I get special priviledges in clinical !

    NurseLoveJoy88 replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Students

    Thanks ! I guess I'm jumping all over the place on allnurses ! lol. Yeah, even though she got under my skin I still tried to make the best of my experience at

  4. Nurses STOP telling me to be a RN ! PLEASE

    NurseLoveJoy88 replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Nursing

    Initially thats what I did, but she kept dragging on it. Maybe she'll think twice before she looks down on another LPN student, now that she know some of us need our LPNs to get by for now. She also...

  5. I get special priviledges in clinical !

    NurseLoveJoy88 replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Students

    Actually, it wasn't anything " exciting" going on. Its very quiet and dim because the babies need minimum stimulation. When newborns are stimulated my sounds or lights they have increased O2...

  6. Something fun: What would you REALLY like to say to new PARENTS?

    NurseLoveJoy88 replied to BabyLady's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Please don't leave your newborn unclothed for a long period of time. I understand that you want to explore his body and show it off. But for goodness sake he's losing heat via evaporation, and he...

  7. I get special priviledges in clinical !

    NurseLoveJoy88 replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Students

    Oh my gosh thanks, and I totally just realized I need to utilize spell check. I'm the worlds worst speller ! ( If that made sense

  8. CNA working as the "school nurse"

    NurseLoveJoy88 posted a topic in School

    hello, as you may of noticed i just found this forum today and i have so much to share. first let me describe what i am and what i do. i'm a cna/gna and certs in first aid/cpr/med tech/... on top of...

  9. Requirements in order to be a school nurse

    NurseLoveJoy88 replied to NurseNatasha's topic in School

    In my area you only need your CNA/first aid/ CPR/ Med tech cert. and thats it to work in the health room. My title is school health assistant and I do treatments, give meds, do first aid, there for...

  10. What kind of work do you do in the summer??

    NurseLoveJoy88 replied to tleigh7097's topic in School

    I usually work summer school at my current school. However, I'm taking classes this summer, graduating as a LPN, and getting married in August so I already told my boss that I will only be working...

  11. Health room log examples

    NurseLoveJoy88 replied to cowgirlBSN's topic in School

    Thanks. I actually did research FERPA and learned alot. I'm just so shocked that I have been working for 3 years in this position and not one person who has authority over told me about FERPA until...

  12. What is your BIGGEST pet peve about school nursing ?

    NurseLoveJoy88 replied to Keepstanding's topic in School

    Wow ! all the above and so much more. My biggest pet peve is when kids come to the HR before the first bell even rings. They basically want to go home before school even starts ! Another one is when...

  13. Why do parents keep sending kids to school with meds !

    NurseLoveJoy88 posted a topic in School

    Why do parents keep sending kids to school with meds with no doctors orders, no notes, or prescription labels ?! This happed twice this week ! A parent sent an inhaler in pre-k students back pack...

  14. Why do parents keep sending kids to school with meds !

    NurseLoveJoy88 replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in School

    Have had that many times myself. I've had doctors orders for the whole school year without meds before and when the parent came to pick up their childs meds, I said: none are here you never bought it...

  15. Boredom on the job-- creative activities for school nurse down time

    NurseLoveJoy88 replied to Keepstanding's topic in School

    I usually do light studying because I'm a nursing student. I do get on AN

  16. Health room log examples

    NurseLoveJoy88 replied to cowgirlBSN's topic in School

    THats my daily log ! I don't make the rules I just get paid to follow them. ANd yes it is electronic, and all this info is sorted and subtotaled every month to complete the monthly

  17. I can't believe I found this forum !

    NurseLoveJoy88 posted a topic in School

    I have been a member for a long time but I never knew there was a school nurse forum ! I have soooo much to get off my chest, so here it goes: 1) Why do teachers/ staff send kids to the health room...

  18. I can't believe I found this forum !

    NurseLoveJoy88 replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in School

    Thanks everyone ! I'M SURE you will be seeing more of me. I'm not a school nurse, I'm actually a CNA whom runs the health room Students and staff call me the school nurse... thats another problem all...

  19. Love & Hate

    NurseLoveJoy88 replied to Keepstanding's topic in School

    I feel the same way ! Its like I never win. I can't ever please teachers, principal, parents, and students all at

  20. Health room log examples

    NurseLoveJoy88 replied to cowgirlBSN's topic in School

    My daily log includes: first name, last name, grade, complaint, treatment, parent contact ? teacher contact? home ? return to

  21. Bzzzzzz....

    NurseLoveJoy88 replied to pugmomrn's topic in School

    Sent 10 kids home this month so far due to

  22. Teachers and Ice

    NurseLoveJoy88 replied to Rosie67's topic in School

    I'm so sick of making Ice packs ! I through so many in just one day ! No more giving ice packs for minor things ! no more ! The worse is when I go to lunch and I find that 10 ice packs are missing,...

  23. OMG you did what?

    NurseLoveJoy88 replied to Purple_Scrubs's topic in School

    LOL

  24. Seriously, does my office look like a wal-mart???

    NurseLoveJoy88 replied to SchoolNurseBSN's topic in School

    I love it when little Johny pees in his pants and I give him a pair of pants to borrow but they are not his style. I tell him this is not walmart or the mall you can either wear these dry clean pants...

  25. I love...

    NurseLoveJoy88 replied to Aneroo's topic in School

    I love testing days, All day field trips, teachers that don't send kids to the health room for every little thing, parents that keep their sick kids