GreenWitch

I get out the third week of May I plan on hitting the road with my son for some adventure!

Teachers can really drive me bonkers....why do they think they know more about sick kids than the school nurse? I love #10!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the grin :)

OH NO! That is scary! I can see how that would be ok to do something basic such as putting on band-aids...but that is something I rarely do...I would be horrified as a parent if I had a child who was diabetic/asthmatic/epileptic/etc to learn that the school had an un-licensed "health care giver" attending their needs!!! Thanks for the info.

We have had a problem with it in my community for the past few years (rural northeast GA), and as a school nurse I've seen PLENTY of it. My son caught it last year...I assumed I carried it home to him some how His Dr said he had impetigo, but when he went to the dermatologist w/me a week after his Dx (and no improvment), she swabbed my nose and cultured one of his sores...he was positive for MRSA and it was making a happy home in my nose.

Thanks NurseKitty for the info :)

attention ga school nurses hi! i'm doing a little investigating this summer....i was wondering if y'all could help me out? my school has a really low school nurse salary. i know the national average for school nurses are about $38,000 but i'm trying to get information on the average georgia school nurse salary. i'm not being nosey...just trying to compile information for the boe to help us girls get a higher salary. the rns get paid the same as the lpns! and it doesn't matter if you have 200 students or 1200...still all the same pay. the starting salary here (in rural north east ga) is $20,000 and the cap (25 years) is $25,000!!! please respond asap as i return to school on july 31st. if you don't wish to post here, please e-mail me @ [email protected]. thanks! enjoy the remainder of your summer!

Hi! I'm doing a little investigating this summer....I was wondering if y'all could help me out? My school has a REALLY low school nurse salary. I know the national average for school nurses are about $38,000 but I'm trying to get information on the average GEORGIA school nurse salary. I'm not being nosey...just trying to compile information for the BOE to help us girls get a higher salary. The RNs get paid the same as the LPNs! And it doesn't matter if you have 200 students or 1200...still all the same pay. The starting salary here (in rural north east GA) is $20,000 and the cap (25 years) is $25,000!!! Please respond ASAP as I return to school on July 31st. If you don't wish to post here, please e-mail me @ [email protected]. Thanks! Enjoy the remainder of your summer!

Yeah, I was forgotten as well Some of the nurses in my county were taken to lunch and bought flowers though..so I'm happy for them...but a little let down myself. I love what Martha and askdrn did! Maybe we should all do both of those this up-coming school year! LOL

Yay for lunch and pee breaks! LOL I attended a "New to School Nursing" seminar in Atlanta by Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. If you are in GA, the one for this year is on the 28th, just e-mail me and I'll send you the information. I also read A LOT of websites...as a matter of fact, it seems like I remember bookmarking a site by the person above me here...but I could be wrong. It's a great site, but it's bookmarked on my computer at school and I don't have access to it or I'd give you the link. Good luck with your new job! love it, I hope you do as well :)

I'm an LPN that is a school nurse. I love it! Good luck to you!

Thanks for the ideas. I've tried to enlist the teachers help, but they are not very cooperative I guess I'll just have to close the clinic and "chase" them down! :chuckle

I am a busy middle school nurse in a school with 1200 students seeing between 90-100 students per day. I have several parents wanting me to force their children to take their meds. I explained that I can't FORCE them as it is illegal, also, seeing so many students I can't track them down for their meds, and their parents signed a sheet acknowledging that they understood their children were responsable for remembering to come take their meds. Has anyone else had this problem? If so, how did you handle it? Thanks in advance!

??!!! You can make more than that at McDonald's here in Georgia! At least around Atlanta anyway.

I work in a rural Georgia area, I am an LPN, we only have one RN in the county. All of us have the same salary regardless of degree or workload.

Agreed! I work in a rural area in the southeast and I took almost a 50% pay cut, but I truly love my job...if my husband would quit bugging me about the money part it would be perfect!!!