studentrn28

thank you so much! i'll post the questions below, if it gets too long, or if you would just feel more comfortable e-mailing the responses back my e-mail is [email protected]. thank you again!! how long have you been a nurse and what type of degree do you have? how long have you been a school nurse? what kind of school do you work in? briefly describe your primary responsibilities. how do you provide health promotion and/or disease prevention? what are your patient education responsibilities? do you work as part of a team or are you autonomous? if so, to whom do you report to? do you use professional organizations for networking, support, or additional teaching/education? if so what organization(s)? do you have any specialty certification(s) to be a school nurse? if so what? how do you insure “best practice” to improve quality of care in your daily duties? how do you act as the child’s advocate when a parent(s) are unwilling or unable to care for the sick child?

I am a nursing student in Ohio and I am doing a paper on community health nursing for my nursing leadership class. I thought it would be very interesting to interview a school nurse for this paper, but I do not personally know any nurses in this area. I was wondering if anyone would be willing to answer 16 or so simple questions about your job and what you do, no real names needed. It would be much appreciated!

Thanks so much for the reply, it was helpful! I searched and went through the first 8 pages, but I'm new so maybe I'm doing it wrong haha.

I am in my last semester of nursing school, and will be done in April with my associates (RN). I have always wanted to do psych nursing and went into the program knowing that psych is where I wanted to be. Now that I am reaching the end however, many people are telling me I should do a couple years in med/surg or simmilar nursing because I have no medical background other than the clinicals required. Is it a bad idea to go straight to a psych position from graduation?