beachynurse ASN, BSN

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  1. beachynurse

    Working for Summer school?

    Wow, 5 days notice and no choice? Our district has us apply for Summer school just to see who applies. Nurses who's schools are Summer school automatically get their own schools unless they request...
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    Rejected from job listings

    I don't know where you are from, but I find that it can be difficult to get into specialty nursing without a strong background in med-surg. I always suggest that new grads get a good 2-3 years...
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    Job interview

    I hope you withdrew your application for some other reason than this? The DON could have many reasons for not being able to call back within 30-60 minutes. There could have been an emergency with a...
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    Teacher Issue...

    I'm in a high school and I simply cannot get the teachers to stop that, especially the Special ED teachers. They called a parent to pick up a kid who had blood mixed in his dark tarry stool because he...
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    Teacher Issue...

    You are my kind of parent. I did the same thing with both of my children... If I had to come get them, they better be close to death... I always had great relationships with their school nurses they...
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    Co-worker issues

    So this LPN was delegating to you? I don't know about in your state, but in VA, an LPN cannot delegate to another LPN, and an LPN definitely cannot delegate to an RN. That's one problem right there,...
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    Getting off orientation too early?

    Thank you for understanding and not being
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    Getting off orientation too early?

    I hate to be the naysayer here, but my ex-husband was in the Military, and we had 2 moves in his career that we had about 30 days notice. In fact, on one of those moves was less than 30 days. We don't...
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    service animal in a high school

    I totally get what you are saying. However, that child's rights will supersede yours 100%. We had a student that was going to bring a service dog to school, and there was a child with a similar issue...
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    New RN Age

    I went to nursing school with a woman in her 50's. She could run circles around some of us younger
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    Overnight Field Trip

    I would probably keep the vaccinated kids together and the unvaccinated ones together. This minimizes risk, and if the parents are uncomfortable they can come along and stay with their kids in their...
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    Considering Becoming A School Nurse

    I've been a school nurse for 17 years and can't imagine doing anything else. It's not a job for everyone, the pay isn't any where near what I could be making, but I do have decent insurance and it's...
  13. tmurray, It is about her learning to manage her own affairs. If she wants to go to nursing school, she will have to learn to do this. You are not going to be able to fight her battles there. If...
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    Will you take the Pfizer Covid Vaccine?

    I just got the Moderna vaccine this
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    Teachers retiring because of COVID

    We had lots of teacher retirements and resignations. The powers that be could not believe the numbers that left, but the way things are being handled, it seems like no one is taking into consideration...
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    Will you take the Pfizer Covid Vaccine?

    Do you have a coordinator? Ask at that level. I’m a school nurse and we are getting vaccinated at the health department which was coordinated by our school
  17. Just curious, what if it's not a conviction? The charges were dropped because the complainant lied to protect himself from being charged with a felony, and the person who was charged improperly was...
  18. I believe that you are fairly new in your leadership role. Unfortunately, when you are new you tend to get the undesirable assignments due to being the low man on the totem pole.. Remember the...
  19. My resolution is the same every year.... Not to make one, since I only break them within weeks of the new year starting... I give
  20. I totally understand how you feel. When my Uncle dies of gastric cancer, my Aunt did not deal with it well. She blamed everyone but the cancer that ate him up. The MD's misdiagnosed him, the nurses...
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    School Nurse Pay

    I am salaried, and considered fulltime though I work 10 months contracted at 192 days per year. My pay is bi-monthly, and I have an option for pay to be distributed over 10 or 12 months. I choose the...
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    Transition to school nursing questions

    I had to sub for a while until an opening came up. We have site based management, which basically means the Principal hires all of the employees in the building including the nurse. You would have to...
  23. I'm happy to hear you are going to give it a shot! I can tell you that my health, both physical and mental improved significantly once I made my job change. You can't buy that with money. I learned a...
  24. In my pursuit of happiness, 16 years ago, I took a much larger, more significant pay cut. If I had to make that same decision today, I would do it again in a heartbeat. I left a job that I made plenty...
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    Will you take the Pfizer Covid Vaccine?

    Thank you, I am very proud of