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Hi All. I am really hoping for feedback before I meet with administration and HR tomorrow. I work as the Lead nurse for a Collaborative. We have medically fragile, autistic spectrum and behavioral students. I have over 10 years of school nursing in public and Collaborative school. I have been at this job 10 weeks and already feel my mental health as well as my license are in jeopardy. Administration is very adversarial and challenging me when I inform them of our state laws regarding many issues. Anyways..I digress. I was just informed that I am expected to be responsible for finding and arranging substitute coverage for our schools. Are any of you required to do this? Also I was told I need to arrange coverage for "transportation" bus nurse. I point blank refused.There is no time. I pass 25-30 meds a day while dealing with all the "usual" medically fragile,seizure, behavioral issues. Any feedback would be really appreciated.

I agree with you that it is like no other work. I guess my main concern is the call requirment. Getting out of bed at 2 AM to do a visit of ( a minmim of) an hour away. It seems more difficult as we age. The call requiremnet is minimal thlugh.Thank you for your input

:nurse:I am a 52 year old RN who left Hospice 3 years ago because I was tired of the call/weekend/holiday issues. I miss the work a lot,and tried to fill that void with being involved on the volunteer level.I switched to school nursing, which of course has INCREDIBLE hours , very good hourly pay and no holidays/weekends/call etc. It also has very minimal sense of personal reward. I took the job figuring it would be a job I could do into retirement. I have TRIED to make the job better, but I still miss hospice nursing. I know that I may not be able to do (home) Hospice nursing till I retire, but I figure I could still probably have several great years left. I am in pretty good health, with the exception of some hip bursitis and rotator cuff problems. I have been offered a position with minimal call/weekend requirements . As I remember, most of the Hospice nurses I worked with were in their 30's or 40's. I would love input from others in my age range,about the challenges/joys/tips that are different with our age group. Thank you .