JenTheSchoolRN BSN, RN

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    Which attire do you feel gives school nurses the most respect?

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to Nurse ABC's topic in School

    sunshine4me: I wear the Grey's Anatomy
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    Which attire do you feel gives school nurses the most respect?

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to Nurse ABC's topic in School

    I hate the boxy, unisex scrubs. The scrub bottoms I wear are bootleg cut and look like dress pants, especially since I wear grey or black. But like someone said above, they are easier to clear or...
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    Which attire do you feel gives school nurses the most respect?

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to Nurse ABC's topic in School

    I wear a mix of scrubs/teacher wear: scrubs bottoms, usually black or gray with a plain short sleeved top and a cardigan (I am always
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    After Hypoglycemia

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to kayvary's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    One of my clinical instructors taught me to always double check a blood sugar over 300 and under 60. That stuck with me and I still do it that way as a
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    Who hires school nurses?

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to monkeysmami/RN's topic in School

    It depends. It is a public school, charter, or private school? I'm with a charter school and my interview was with our director of operations, who is not medical personal. However, when I was was...
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    Oh please, just let me vent!!!

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to mc3's topic in School

    I'm pretty lucky in my school, I suppose. The goal is keep the kids in the classroom, so I've had a few teachers call me and done a phone triage on some students to see if they really need to come...
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    Bed Bugs?

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to Cackalacky's topic in School

    I have experienced them, but not in the nursing world. About 7 years or so back, when I was living in one of my first post-college apartments, my roommate got what we thought was a strange rash on...
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    Newly Weds and Nursing School

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to TWebster24's topic in Post Graduate Students

    I started a direct-entry MSN program 4 months after my now husband and I started dating. And then we got married just after I completed my RN coursework and I took (and passed) my NCLEX three weeks...
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    Grad Plus Loan vs Private Loans

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to flyingfish2u's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    My concern about private loans is that the interest rate is lower now, but that could change. The interest rate is variable, not fixed like it is on graduate plus loans. I spoke with my dad, a...
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    2 Field Trips..1 Day...1Nurse

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to RNCourt's topic in School

    Even though you have to contact then, you at least have two subs to start with (the office manager steps in for me when I am out). You mentioned that both your subs work in a hospital setting...if...
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    New School Nurse: VENT

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to Britrn04's topic in School

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    2 Field Trips..1 Day...1Nurse

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to RNCourt's topic in School

    First off...yuck! I agree that your director should be the one to talk to the parents as this was his decision. What grade are these students in? I only ask because I am wandering if the diabetic...
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    CPR teaching?

    JenTheSchoolRN posted a topic in School

    I'm a new grad and I've just started my first full time school nurse job and while it has been a little crazy starting mid-stream, I love it. My supervisor (who is not medical personal, I work at a...
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    CPR teaching?

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to JenTheSchoolRN's topic in School

    Excellent point, thank you. I am trying to generate a proposal on the cost of course materials vs. benefits for the school and will look into any agency that may be willing to loan or rent
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    New Grad= No jobs?

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to courtney,rn's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    The MA market for new nurses is tough! I'm in MA myself; I'm doing a direct-entry program and got my RN late January and while I will have a MSN at the end, my program doesn't award me a BSN (long...
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    30+ club! Lets do this together.

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to alynn's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I Considered only those myself. I applied only to DE programs and I just finished my pre-licensure portion and got my RN at the of January. 18 months, full time was that path. Now I'm in the...
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    Accepted! Simmons' Dix Scholar Program Summer 2013

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to isabellanetto's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Congrats to all of you! I'm a current direct entry Simmons student myself (a friend of mine was in the Dix program) and I'll admit you don't get much information until you show to orientation (DE and...
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    Interested in School Nursing

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to akc_RN's topic in School

    I just started full time (7:30-4) and I get paid a salary working at a charter school with benefits and paid vacation/sick time. I will sign a new contract each year. If I broke it down per hour, it...
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    30+ club! Lets do this together.

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to alynn's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Well, I was half-way through my pre-licensure coursework when I turned 30. I started a direct-entry MSN/FNP program when I was just shy of turning 29, passed the NCLEX when I was 30, and will finish...
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    New Grads that have Jobs: what do you advise for the rest of us

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to estrellaCR's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I don't have a hospital job, so not sure if this is helpful, but... I landed my first per diem job as a substitute school nurse in a very diverse and super busy urban school district one month after...
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    ACLS certification

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to jab89's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I took it two months after being licensed I got through it just fine and could have gotten through it just as well in my last semester before taking the NCLEX. I am in a direct-entry program and they...
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    NP program with clinicals and preceptors

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to Kitty's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Not in NJ, but Simmons College in Boston does. (I think they may also be launching an online FNP program soon; I'm a current FNP student there and some information was mentioned about its
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    ACLS class as a student? good or pointless?

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to procrastinator911's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Yes, take the class if you can afford it. And if not, I'd save for it. I got my ACLS certification right after getting my RN license (almost took it right before getting my RN, but had a class...
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    A new grad numbers game... just curious!

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to calivianya's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Finished RN in Dec '12 (in Direct-entry program), licensed end of Jan '13, employed per diem in Feb '13, full-time May '13. 1. Applied to 50+ jobs 2. Very few new grad posting in my neck of the woods...
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    Direct Entry Nurse Practitioner Masters Programs Admissions

    JenTheSchoolRN replied to tloneil's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner