momto5RN

My heart feels for you!!! First, congratulations on the new little one!! I have five children and can relate to this. It's not easy to pump at work...to find the time or a place to do it. I did it for a little bit when I worked as a school nurse twic...

Hello!!!! Love seeing this post....i am a former school nurse as well! I resigned from my school nurse job in June after working two school years. I started outpatient dialysis right before Halloween. Still on orientation and will be until about the ...

Hope you don't mind me jumping in as well but I left school nursing as well after two school years and just started working as a dialysis nurse. Holy crap, it is information overload!!! I feel like I am in nursing school all over again and even have ...

Hello School Nurses!! Just wanted to stop in and say hello!! Hope everyone is off to a great start!! I miss being a school nurse. If it weren't for the crappy administration and lack of decent health insurance, I would still be one. I had to go i...

Hello to my favorite Nurses out there!!! Just wanted to give an update....so it has been a crazy few weeks! My little one ended up back into the hospital after a complication from her kidney surgery. And because life loves to throw me lemons non-st...

This breaks my heart!! Hang in there, please, it really is a great job in nursing!! Now I'm going to sound like a hypocrite but that is why I left my school nurse position after two school years this past June. Now, that it is NOT to say I will ne...

Great job, Jen!!! OldDude, you are amazing, I find your posts to be awesome!! Miss being in a school nurse's office!

Be safe!!!! Please, please evacuate!!! My family was hit by Hurricane Sandy almost five years ago and everyone in my neighborhood stayed but us. We had three small children at the time and lived right on the bay. We did not want to take that chance. ...

You are absolutely right to do an assessment on all your patients. I remember during my preceptorship in nursing school, my preceptor laughed in my face when I asked her if she listens to lung sounds post respiratory treatment. Her response was, I on...

Can I still join in with all of you fabulous nurses?! I was going to make a separate post and maybe some day I will, but I resigned as school nurse at the private school I worked at the day after school got out in June. This was not planned and it is...

After today is done, I have 8 more days till school is done. Trying to catch up on some documenting and organizing my office for next year. Curious, do you undo your entire office for maintenance crews to clean during summer?

One of my own lovely children has poison ivy on her leg and went to see the school nurse for calamine lotion. She sent home a note that didn't make sense to me. She wrote, if the rash gets worse a visit to the MD is recommended. That part was fine, I...

Oh my heavens....I was just sent a student complaining of discomfort with his left pinky because a stuffed animal hit it. What has this world come too?! And it was the guidance counselor who sent him. I'm done! 7 more days, 7 more days!!!!!!

Definitely a second home at my school!! I work in a small school. I pretty much know every student's name. Problem is, I have seen majority of them during the school year! Some students have been here 30 times. One student is at 54 visits this year! ...

I know a lot of you guys and girls have bigger schools than where I work. But for the month of May, I have seen 310 students. Mostly off the wall, ridiculous reasons too! At the end of every month I have to send out a monthly report. It has on the fo...

Wow, that is pretty awesome!! Good for you!! What did you have to do to win?!:)

9-3:35. I can show up anywhere from 8:45 to 9. And stay until 3:45.

Yes, curious to know too if he came in today!

Lol, this is great!!! I was going to say stripper as a joke but didn't want anyone to think I was weird!! My former nursing job was no lie down the street from a strip joint. Every time I passed it while driving to work, I thought to myself, I actua...

Fun post!! Honestly, I'm really not sure what I want to be "when I grow up!" Nursing was never my first choice although it was in the back of my mind. I never thought I was smart enough or capable. I come from a household where my parents did not go...

So my school hardly has any policies. I pretty much follow what my own children's school does (they go to public schools) and use basic common sense. Was just curious as to what your school does when lice is going around. Do you send home if just ni...

Wow, you guys are great!!! Thank you for sharing your policies and what your school does. Much appreciated!! I did find a little sentence in my school's policy book but it doesn't say much. This is what I found..."If a student contracts lice, the pa...

Checked heads. 22 of them. One has lice. A lot. And it was a busy day at the school too with Mass. Fun times! And to top it off, I've been up since 3 with my youngest little guy and cleaning the house. Can't wait to go to sleep!

I hear you on this!!! But what drives me completely over the edge are the parents who do know about medication administration because they are also nurses. Some of those parents have done that to me this year!! And they are also the ones who think I ...

That stinks! I loved my school nurse rotation and remember it well. I was at a middle school that had two nurses. I remember helping them sort out all the meningococcal and tdap immunization records. Saw a lot of students that day. They were great nu...