lawrence4656

Thank y'all for the replies. It is extremely frustrating, especially since I like her any other time and I get along great with all the other teachers. It did dawn on me today that I'm the first full time nurse they have had on this campus, that all the others only stayed half a day. I think in their absence she took a lot of the health stuff on herself and she's not ready to relinquish that. I think I will send out a generic letter to all teachers (as not to single her out) and give a copy to my principles as well stating that if they feel a student has worsened in the time that I have seen them, to please send them back for re-evaluation. But for confidentiality reasons, to please refrain from coming to my office to ask specifics about a student and to please refrain from entering my office while any student is receiving treatment. Then if she continues, I will get the principles involved. Hate to do it but that stuff has to stop! Especially when I see her do things that we as nurses are not allowed or have been taught not to do and then I have to argue with a parent why I can't do it but she could. Thank goodness I'm going on maternity leave in a couple of months and will get a little break! I need one for my sanity!:)

How do you deal (tactfully) with overbearing teachers that butt in and try to do your job for you? I have been at this school for four years and I love my campus but throughout this time this one teacher has occasionally butted in and has tried to run my office. If she doesn't like how I have handled something she gets on her cell phone and calls the parent. If one of her "teachers pets" are sick or injured she comes in with them and takes over my office and tries to do everything herself. And take for instance today she was angry that I sent a kid back to her room that she felt should have gone home. Kid came in with sore throat with one hour to go before school let out. Throat appeared completely normal and he wasn't running a fever and had no other symptoms. . She later came in and demanded to know exactly what his throat looked like and proceeded to tell me the kid was sitting in her room with his head down and looked terrible. Kid acted completely normal while in my office! Not to mention no observable symptoms. I keep wanting to blow my top and tell her that I don't come into her classroom and tell her how to teach and that until she goes through nursing school she needs to stay out of my office and let me do my job, but that wouldn't be very tactful. I enjoy her company any other time but her intrusiveness makes my job very hard and my patience is wearing very thin....any advice?

We did our first semester in a nursing home, our second semester on one of the med/surg floors in the hospital, and third semester we did floor work along with specialty areas in the hospital and community setting.

You should check out Rob's CPNE. I bought his study DVD and workbook and it made everything else just clicked and made sense then! :)

My job literally fell into my lap. I applied to the school district just on a whim while in between jobs and they had a school nurse quit like the next day. It helped tremendously that I attended that same school district and my bosses were my former teachers. It's actually kind of hard to get into. They don't open up too often because people normally hang on to these jobs for dear life for all the time off and stable hours. If you get on the sub list in some districts it helps to get your foot in the door that way if a position opens up you will already be trained, have the background check, etc.

I don't know, I guess I got lucky because I've never had to do any type of bedside nursing or med/surg. I've worked in surgery in the OR where I assisted with the surgeries and then went straight to school nursing. Other than the blood in surgery I haven't really had to deal with other people's bodily secretions.

My OB/GYN went that route. She was a nurse for years before she went back. I personally think it has made her a better doctor as far as the way she relates to her patients and her employees and other nurses. When I worked in surgery and there would be a call out, if she beat the team there, she would begin to set up the OR instead of just sitting there waiting on everyone else to show up like the other surgeons would do.

Speaking with a guardian on the phone regarding their grandchild in my care at school. Guardian: What's her temperature? Me: 99.3 Guardian: OMG! I'm on my way to take her To the doctor right now before she has a febrile seizure! As a school nurse they are always overprotective or I'm having to send the school officer to their home to wake them up to make them come get their kid running a 103 temp with them asking me "Can't I just give them Tylenol and send them back to class?" I would love to have something in the middle for once! Lol

Yes there are (or atleast I was told there was) but I'm not sure where to find it. I live in Texas and worked as an LVN in the school for several years. My boss came to me and told me I was getting a raise because they discovered they were paying their lvn's under the minimum but I obtained my RN shortly after that and have started receiving RN salary. Have you checked the TEA website?

I love my job for the family time I get. Summers and holidays off are pretty awesome. I love the few times that I do make a difference in a child's life but the job has become pretty frustrating to me. My office is used as a "dumping" ground to send students when the teacher needs a break, and more than anything I wanted to be a nurse and this job does not make me feel like one. I'm the only nurse on the entire campus and it's beyond frustrating being the only medical professional and it's hard sometimes to keep the peace when they expect you to do things out of your scope. Pay is absolutely terrible compared to say working at a hospital. If you really enjoy young kids, then it might be right up your alley. But if you enjoy performing all your nursing skills, be prepared to mainly handle immunizations, dishing out ADHD meds, and vision/hearing/spinal screenings. And it is very difficult to get into. My job literally fell into my lap when my daughter was only 4 months old and my husband was working 12 hour nights so it truly was a Blessing. But I am getting burned out. It will probably depend on where you work too. I only had a month of surgical work under my belt and was hired as an LVN. (Another plus was that the job was so laid back that I had time to work towards my RN, which I now have.) As long as my children are small, I will hang on to this job as long as I can unless something happens. The way I see it, I can always do PRN work in an area I really love on my breaks. I also agree with everybody else that it's easier to get hired on I'd you start subbing for them.

Thank you all. You've made me feel better. I've never messed up on one before. Thank you for the tips as well to use in the future.:)

I've been a nurse for four years now and work as a school nurse. I do not give injections routinely there but have still done plenty of them that I felt comfortable enough to agree to help out a coworker. They got the depo provero shot from the pharmacy and and I agreed to administer it their daughter to save a trip into town to the doctor's office. It was a standard 1 1/2 inch needle and I used my landmarks like I always do. As soon as I aspirated there was blood return so I withdrew and since that was the only one they had we disposed of it and they had to go get another one. I have never hit a vein before and they said they gave it to her lower down when she went back to her doctor to get another shot. I know she is fine but I'm wondering if I just screwed up or if her size had anything to do with it? She is a very tiny girl (Maybe 5'6", 110 lbs) and I attempted it in the dorsogluteal site. Is it possible that I did measure the landmarks correctly, just given her size I should have gone just a tad lower? I do my aunt's monthly b12 shots in the same place and have done another coworkers depo shot there as well but this was my first time dealing with someone who had low muscle mass.