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I've thought about going PRN somewhere. My friend from school got an agency job and she is making really good money, she keeps telling me to apply but being thrown into new facilities all the time makes me very nervous.

I know. I took the part time for experience, hoping to get into something full time next year. I could make it work if I was getting full time hours. But thankfully since I posted my SO got an unexpected raise so I am less screwed than I originally thought. I also agree with PP that mental health is so much more important than money. I decided to stick it out for the rest of the year and if the agency can't find me something full time I might stay on as a sub and try pediatric home health or something.

Saw this all the time working on a long term vent floor, people would come in with awful stage 4 pressure ulcers from the hospital. We would spend months treating them, they would go back to the hospital and we would have to start over. I had a man who was quadriplegic, had a catheter and ostomy. He was in a long term care facility and they just neglected to turn him. His entire back was a giant pressure ulcer, it was the worst one I have ever seen. Took 3 rolls of gauze to pack it. They taped so many ABDs together to cover his entire back and sides. After about 6 months it was down to only taking 1 roll of gauze.

Our schools policy is meds must be picked up and signed off on in person. if they aren't picked up they are supposed to be destroyed. What do you do with meds that have been in the graveyard for a while that parents have no interest in getting? I have an file drawer full of old meds from last year that no one will pick up.

I don't even have a cot. I have one single chair. If I have more than one kid, the others have to sit in the secretaries office and wait. I am pretty sure my "clinic" used to be a supply closet or something.

Sounds like you interviewed at the facility I got my first nursing job at. I didn't even finish orientation before I RAN. Way too many red flags. I ignored them because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to find anything else as a new grad, but I regretted it and it actually hurt me more than anything because I knew I was going to be risking my license if I stayed, but then I looked like a job hopper when I was applying other places.

I can be fulltime, but would have a district nurse over me. That seems to be the way most districts do it in this area. Definitely a lot to think about.

I guess I don't understand why the medication was taken out by the nurse then left unsupervised with the CST, if the intention was to be given later by the nurse. Obviously, this opened you up to the possibility of someone else giving the medication inappropriately. I know this may be the way it is "always done" in that facility, but never ever leave a med out for someone else to touch, that falls back on you.

I think it is great, I was vegetarian for 3 years, when I was in the hospital after delivering my daughter they had ONE vegetarian meal the entire time I was there. I couldn't even order a salad because they had ham in them already,

LPN working through agency. School has me come in for 4 hours a day to deal with all the daily meds and recess injuries. Just did the math and after taxes I am making like $11 an hour this month. I made more as an aide. Kind of feel like I'm wasting my nursing license... I LOVE school health. It was my favorite in clinicals, I took this job fir the experience to hopefully get into something full time next school year, but idk if I can afford to ride it out. Oh and the school is a 45 minute drive from my house. I knew this job didn't pay very well when I accepted it ($17/h) but because of the pay schedule I get paid the same amount twice each month (for 10 months a year) and at the end any days I have missed come out of the last pay check. I am starting to just think nursing isn't for me. I can either get a job I hate that pays well or a job I love where I can't afford to pay my bills. And I am apprehensive to go back for my RN when I hated bedside nursing so much. I am just feeling kind of lost in this profession. I've been thinking of picking up a pediatric home health gig on the side but the best part of this job is having nights and weekends with my kids and I dont want to give that up either. Plus then I'd need childcare. I don't know why I am posting this, but I needed to get it out.

I worked as an aide for my grandpa before he died and they said the only time they do not pay for a family member to be a health care provider is when they are also the power of attorney, but they would have still allowed it if I lived at the same address. I also worked through an agency which may have helped the situation. not the exact same thing, but similar situation.

I would quit nursing altogether if I had to go back to bedside.

I am an LPN working in a school in Ohio, I am also through a health services company (maybe the same one lol) This seems to be common. A lot of schools hire the aides and LPNs to save money. I have an RN supervisor but she is over the entire region. Most districts have an RN that manages all the schools, but my district does not. I bring my nursing bag, stethoscope, BP cuff, pen light, Pulse Ox, etc. basic stuff is provided but I have heard some of the inner city schools are very bare bones and you show up and there aren't even band aids. I am hoping to get my RN and eventually become certified as a school nurse, but right now I am happy where I am.

Seriously. Go to a community college. 4 classes was under $3000. Fafsa covered all of it. I only had to pay about $150 for books and school supplies.

I live in a pretty rural area. GPA must be 2.6 and the only thing you need to do to be "competitive" is finish all your science classes before you apply.