schoolnursejennie

i'm a relatively new nurse with 1 year experience in school nursing and just made the switch to a children's psychiatric hospital. basically, i feel like i am in way over my head. i am 1 week into a 6 week orientation and i feel like running back t...

the nurse that was precepting me the other day told me that she agrees that the aides should not talk that way to the kids but you have to "pick your battles" and you don't want to "alienate staff." while i agree with that, i do feel that as the sol...

so i had an interview at a children's psychiatric hospital run by new york state. in short, the interview went great, i was offered the full-time position exactly a week later, and have never heard back. the initial call took place on 4/20 and she s...

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woohooo...she finally called back and said there was "an HR snafu." i start on may 24 :)

I did and she never called back. I don't want to start harassing her.

I agree that it was very strange but I basically chalked it up to the state being the state. I called last Tuesday and left a message for her. Do you think it's being too pushy and/or desperate to call again? Maybe I should email her secretary. I'm ...

i have to deal with the same exact type things where i work. teachers bring kids in for bug bits, scabs, phantom stomach aches, and things they want "documented." when something really serious happens they "FORGET" or thought he "looked alright." ...

this exact thing has happened to me a couple of times. kids come in complaining of SA, i send them back to class, and then lo and behold they vomit all over the classroom and the teacher comes down to the office behaving hysterically. i hate when t...

flare thanks for the tuning fork idea..i will definitely use it!!! as to 100kids, what else could/should you have done? nothing.

i have this problem as well. i am coming to realize that teachers do not view me as a professional and think that i am a babysitter. i'm sick of it!!!

hi all. i am on the teacher's contract and am therefore part of the union. since i started at this school i haven't taken any lunch breaks because i simply have not had the time. basically i am entitled to two 40 minute breaks, one as a "prep" per...

YES. i've been at my school for about two months and this has happened to me at least 5 times. students will come into the office and i have NO record of them even being enrolled. no physical, no immunizations, no emergency contact form. NOTHING. ...

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i am a nurse in new york state. i was wondering if anyone can help me with how to handle expired physicals and having to exclude students from gym due to not having an up to date physical in their record. i was told that physicals last one year and...

okay i think i have it figured out. thanks a lot!!!

ok so i just did more reading on the subject and i THINK that in new york a sports physical is for students participating in organized sports and that they need a physical every 12 months. a new physical, which would just allow for basic phys ed part...

i am trying to stay out of it as much as possible. when someone tries to gossip to me i just tell them i don't want to get involved. i work in a special needs school but the truth is the adults seem to be more disturbed than the kids.

lol!!!! i am doing great, thanks ! :redbeathe i am becoming more and more comfortable as the days go by. i have my diabetic student under control, figured out my lunch break (even though there was some drama with it that i could have done without),...

hi. i am new to school nursing (had my first day on friday). and i have to submit a report on immunizations to the state by 10/31. part of the report wants me to know how many students exactly are in each grade k-12. how do i know how many kids a...

ok so this morning a student came in HYSTERICALLY CRYING AND WAILING because she accidentally got the tip of her pencil stuck in her palm. every single hall monitor came running in to console her. i went to assess the site of the pencil point and s...

thank you SO much! and you are exactly right...she needs somebody that is going to approach her with compassion and caring and i am trying to be that person. at first she was causing me a lot of anxiety but i've calmed down a bit so i hope she is ab...

hi. i have a new student in school that started on monday. i am a new nurse so PLEASE bear with me and understand that this is my first job out of school (whether you agree that it should be or not, i really need advice and some help.) the differen...

the pump is animas. the thing is with this student, she understands her diabetes completely, she knows how to use the pump correctly, and she understands the implications of hypo and hyperglycemia- she just doesn't seem to care.

thanks for all the info arnu. she has a scheduled snack time at 10:30 AM by her physician. she comes in and asks for a snack and i give her the snack. i thought that i was wrong to give her the snack the other day but i realize now that it is okay...