mmallien

Just over 1,100 students.

Thank you for your responses. All the nurses except for the head nurse are LPN's. I don't think it was my credentials. Especially since the head nurse was the one who wanted me to apply. She also let me know if it was up to her I would have been hired. But it is selected by each school. Oh, well. I will be applying for another opening next year when the current nurse retires, that happened to be the school I did the long term sub. I have a good relationship with the staff there. I will also be volunteering at my pediatricians office in the meantime to add to my experience, just so this doesn't happen again. The position was at the high school which had never had a nurse before, so I never got to sub at the school or meet anyone. It might be they had someone in mind before even going though the interviews. Try, try, try again, right?

Just curious.... since I don’t have a l of experience with the field, but experience would trump RN over LPN?it was probably many factors. I do think it was probably a close call, and the principal was very nice when she told me they selected someone else. I just thought I had a good shot since I volunteered with 3 out of the 4 hearing and vision screenings. And volunteering for registration day since they needed a RN signature, and all the days subbing at $60/day. It was more to get my foot in the door and to help the nurses, not for the pay. I shouldn’t think about it to much, since it’s not going to change anything. ?

Is it common to be denied a FT job after being the main sub for the school system? I am a fairly new nurse, but I have been the main substitute nurse for the schools in my county. This year a job came available and I just found out today that they selected someone else. I have no hospital experience aside from my preceptorship, but I would have thought if they trusted me to sub at their schools that I would be just as qualified to work full time? And out of times I subbed last year, I did a long term sub, that was over a month.

I hope this is still a current thread. I wanted to see how many papers were assigned in the classes? I hate papers. I think because I have a hard time finding my articles/references. So papers take me a LONG time. I'm just worried I won't be able to finish them in time if there is one per week for example. I want to start in the new year and I just had a baby so I'm also a little worried I won't have the time. I plan to take only one class at a time since I will be busy with a baby for most of the day.

So I was just tested on CVA/IICP/LOC and other concepts. I am confused by one of the questions and I need to know where I can find the answer because my book is not clear. One of the questions was: a nurse is treating a stoke pt and would question which of the following medications? Antihypertensive sedative and two more that I don't remember but would not have caused the patient any harm. The answer was antihypertensive. Our text said treating HTN was contraversial and only if its above 185/110 for ischemic or it is a hemorrhagic stoke. So I can see how it might be possible to choose the antihypertensive drug, but there were no parameters that gave insight to any of this information. The reason I chose sedative is because you don't was to depress the CNS when you are assessing a stoke patient b/c it might not be an accurate score on the GCS or the NIH stroke scale. I thought I remember reading this somewhere but I can't find it now that I am going back through the book. Maybe it was a practice question that I did for the NCLEX on the evolve website? Can someone please clarify for me?