100kids BSN, RN

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    How much time off for Winter Break?

    1/2 day on the 23rd then off until Jan 4 here, week at winter break and spring break and 4 day weekend at Easter. Can you tell I'm looking forward to all of
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    what do the students call you?

    I would have replied, "Well yes, yes I am!". At least that's what I tell my
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    I'm baaaaaack!

    wow! And welcome
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    what do the students call you?

    I'm Mrs. Last Name but since I have 3 nieces in my building who call me Aunt First Name some kids have said they think it's only fair if they can too. I told them I could live with
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    Anyone decorating today??

    Put a few snowmen out in my room, an elf countdown on my door and a few ornaments strewn around, that's all I have time for. It looks a little fun but not over the
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    Farawyn!

    very
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    Happy Thanksgiving!

    Hope everyone enjoys a few days off, a nice Thanksgiving and a restful weekend before the craziness of schools in December begins for us all next
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    what do the students call you?

    me too! After starting here I quickly realized I am NEVER off duty as far as everyone is concerned. I'm the Nurse all the
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    Random Thoughts: School Nurses

    This makes me CRAZY! Or when a parent posts of FB that their darling is home sick and another parent comments with "Oh that's going all around school" REALLY? We have had 2 cases, let's not alert...
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    Orientation Questions

    How much orientation did you get when you started? none, the last nurse left about 2 months before I started and we are a 1 school district so there was no one to do an orientation Do you work with...
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    Narcan for School Nurses?

    THIS EXACTLY! This is the part of School Nursing that people who aren't in it just don't
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    Random Thoughts: School Nurses

    Ugh! Monday mornings kill me. Had a 1st grader throw up on the bus, the bus driver calling school frantic so I could meet the child at the bus, other kids throwing up from the smell or threatening...
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    Random Thoughts: School Nurses

    Ugh!
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    Random Thoughts: School Nurses

    Lovely...when do they
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    Discussing Menstruation With Students

    Here it is discussed in 5th grade and parents are sent home a notice before it's done. Most of them are thrilled they don't have to do
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    The Bad Day Thread

    Awww it's hard to let go when we worry about these kids and really see them as our own. Of course we know they're not really ours but they become such a part of our life and we just want everything...
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    Help me out here.........

    I had this but for a much younger student. Her doctor wanted the nebulizer used because she was not able/willing to use an MDI properly, even with a spacer. This student was a 1st grader. She is...
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    Psych me up-- union negotiations!

    It's very sad to me to see how little our services are understood or
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    Psych me up-- union negotiations!

    In my school this would be your biggest stumbling block towards getting paid more. All of the staff here that are considered professionals (teachers, counselors, speech therapists, administrators)...
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    Psych me up-- union negotiations!

    I get a call every few years from local school nurses asking me what I make. You could try that. Also I see you're in NY if you know the names of some local school nurses look them up in the NY...
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    Ridiculous Reasons to See the Nurse

    Last week I was interrupted at lunch with an emergency-a student needed a cough drop! SERIOUSLY people? Whenever it gets really bad I threaten to leave the building during my lunch and take my 30...
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    Bad Attitude.....need support

    WOW! 25 years! I am 5 years in and I tell my husband all the time I can't work 20 as a School Nurse. I love the kids and my interactions with them make me smile every day but there are too many...
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    How often did YOU see the school nurse?

    My kids play wall ball during recess. Thankfully they've never met with the wall!
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    Psych me up-- union negotiations!

    Good luck! Negotiations are never easy. I have no union here and negotiate my own contract each year for the following one. I would say a big issue here is Attendance. How many kids are not...