Today is the last full day for students, 1/2 day for students tomorrow, full day for staff and 1/2 day for everyone on Friday! Time to put the beach chair in the trunk for
Congratulations! It's a great job. The first year it's good to let yourself get acclimated to how things work, etc. You will find that a lot of what you are asked to do is non nursing and you have...
We still allow homemade here but I am a tiny school. In a larger school I don't know how that could possibly work while still keeping children with allergies safe. It's a lot of work on me with only...
Bug bites are 20% of my visits at this time of year! I always ask the kids "What do you do for bug bites at home? Do you tell your mom?" I do not want to contribute to a generation of kids/adults...
Congratulations! I come in for 2 days before the kids start. Some of that time is spent on staff education (Universal Precautions and Epi pen training), some is spent getting my office kid ready...
I try to check in here at least once a week during the summer especially because when I come back in September so many have been doing the beginning of the year craziness for a month
I make most of the medication policies in my school guided by state law. I work in a PK-6 building. once kids hit around 4th/5th grade I start working on getting them to self-carry status as soon as...
Teaching Health has never been a part of the School nurse's job ay my school UNTIL me. In NY you need special certification as a School Nurse Teacher to be able to teach Health without being...
I started in the middle of the year when I first got this job too. I did the best I could and got done as many as possible. Lots of things came up that first year that weren't being done properly in...