I'm here! This is my 3rd year as a school nurse, 20th year of being an RN. Time flies. So, I started back August 14th. I work for a county office of education, so we have medically fragile kids, ED kids, alternative HS kids. We have pervasive staffi...
cdgoldilocks replied to Keepstanding's topic in School
I am kind of snarky, but when the teachers try to tell me how to do my job, my rebuttal is that they can do MY job and I can go teach their class common core, as I have an app for that and it can't really be all that hard.
I worked for the Nurse Family Partnership program for 14 years. I helped introduce the program to our County, and it was "my baby". I liked the client centered "heart's desire" approach to Public Health, I loved that they had a curriculum and lots o...
cdgoldilocks replied to cdgoldilocks's topic in School
I Had to watch the WHOLE video and read ALLLL the ed code to realize that hand sanitizer and all my wonderful germy wipes are governed by some other governmental agency. Yay! lol.... I spent 2 hours getting my mandatory certificate in learning to cle...
I got an e mail after attending the CSNO conference about Pesticides. I just started school nursing in October. In July of this year, the State of CA is doing a bunch of shenanigans because they think lots of rules are awesome. Hand sanitizer, saniti...
cdgoldilocks replied to jk2185's topic in Stress 101
Been there. I feel for you. I think we are nurses are so traumatized we are now numb. I am in my 3rd nursing career change. I did 4 years in CV/Tele/Stepdown. Saw it all. I saw a lady's butt had grown in to her rocker chair from neglect, watched the...
cdgoldilocks replied to cdgoldilocks's topic in School
Wow an Epistick. LOL. Oh, I love the keepsake picture. I took some too. LOLOL. http://i901.photobucket.com/albums/ac217/cdgoldilocks/IMG_0027_zpsj4ieut2c.jpg Sorry it is huge.
cdgoldilocks replied to frangipanni's topic in School
Our policy is that any head injury that you would call home or send a note, etc would have an incident report filled out. Ours is called Confidental School something-or-other report. We inform our administrator, fill out the form, then notify parent ...
cdgoldilocks replied to cdgoldilocks's topic in School
Thank you for the warm welcome. I am happy to see such an active group. I must say, there are some days I think I have finally found what I have wanted to do. Then there are other days when I feel like I'm not sure I can juggle it all. There is a l...
Just wanted to introduce myself. I have been a nurse for 18 years. I have worked hospital nursing for 4 years, then public health for 14 years before deciding to take a job for my county office of education as one of their 3 school nurses. We have se...
