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Ohio nurses, ODE has a few school Nurse lisensure programs listed that they approve. I’ve been told the program at OSU is just certificate-meaning you cannot count those classes towards a Masters degree if you would choose to continue to pursue it. Whereas I’ve been told at Ashland U they do count toward a masters degree. These are the only 2 that I’ve heard things about. Where did you get your SN license and do your classes count toward A masters? I’m thinking if I’m almost half way to a masters, I may as well go for my Masters. Thanks!

Thank you Lyrern for your reply. I appreciate it.

Hello. I’ve been pondering about applying for a school nurse position. I’m almost 51. I’m still in a hospital,(27 years now). I’ve been interested in school nursing for at least 5 years, but have just been to insecure to leave my current “secure” job. I’m finally ready to get out of the hospital! I’ve been reading on school nursing forums about what it’s going to look like once schools do open back up. Do you thing it would be too much to learn a new position like school nursing along side trying to learn and keep up with new protocols in place? Do schools have an orientation process, or do they just show you your office and say “welcome”? I’ve never done peds. I only have surgery background and Pre-admission testing. But I do have a child with type one diabetes, so I’m very comfortable with that. How old were you when you started school nursing? How long do you have to work to be eligible for retirement with state position?

Would any of you mind sharing your on call schedule for your department? Ours has been in place for a while. I think management is looking for ideas. I am not in management, but I wouldn't mind presenting them with something that would work for our department. We are not a trauma center, but we do staff 24 hours. We are also located in a fairly large city with 6-7 other hospitals. We have around 12 rooms we run daily. I am looking for daily, nightly, weekend, and holiday call schedules, and how often you are on call. Thanks for any input!

I have been an OR nurse for 10 years. It has mainly been minimal part time (32 hrs every 2 weeks). I have stayed home with my children, but worked to keep my skills. Lately I haven't been very happy at work. I have considered changing specialties, but I have only ever worked in surgery. No floor experience whatsoever. I still only want to work part-time. I have no idea what other areas I could work. Have any of you ever been in this situation where you did a career/specialty change from surgery? How did you take the steps to do it? Do you have any suggestions for me? Some of my interests are home health/hospice, school nurse, dialysis just to name a few. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks.

We had to do a special training that was related to flight training when we started doing timeouts. This is a basic timeout in our OR. Usually the circulator states the patients name, reads from the patient's consent what the pt has consented for, the birthday, any allergies, any preop antibiotics given and the time given, the position the pt is in, any other pertinent info needed to be given (type and screened for example). Then the scrub gives their time out: whether counts are done, what drugs and solutions are on the field, any special supplies they have or still need: then anesthesia adds their part, like the type of anesthesia given, ASA, then the surgeon gives their timeout, usually reiterating the consent and a brief pt history and noting the staff to speak up if there are any concerns. This is all done before incision is made. We have a checklist to go by that is on a big erase board that we fill out for each case that has all this info on it. It sounds lengthy, but it isn't. I've never googled it. I hope that helps. :)