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Yes I am, and I have been leaving it at work here lately too. I am not doing it anymore. I just hate coming back to a mess and not being able to find anything because I cannot get anything done.

I chart under everyone I talk to, and i always email and I print the email about the entire conversation so if things are lied about, I have proof. I don't see how they can dispute the charting, especially if it is where they cannot delete it. As far as emails, you can prove you addressed it earlier, and then their accusations to me look more like lies. I would say though, hiring 7 NURSES in 10 years speaks for itslelf! I am sorry this happened to you, and honestly I have been worried it will happen to me. The thing is, it seems that no matter what we address or do right somehow NURSES are the ones that get short changed in that area.

Thank you that makes me a little bit more optimistic. Like I said I have worked in it before but I was only a school nurse for one school I didn't have to schools and health coordinator position so maybe it's just that all of that is new. Thanks again

I am so glad to see somebody else feels the way I do. I kept reading about how the summers off and less stress was better, and that they liked it better and I was wondering what I was doing wrong. It sounds like we are in the same boat, and I feel like I am really taken advantage of all around most of the time. Sadly enough I feel the stress is equal because their has been a huge increase in chronically ill kids just from when I started the end of the year to the beginning of this year, and you cannot explain how unsafe you feel it is to anyone around you, because they think strictly education. Nobody thinks like you, and it seems like if you aren't contributing to education they could care less. I try to stay positive because I am actually a very positive person, but I have so many things backfire and seem like it is going against me that it is hard. I hope things get better for you.

I am the district health coordinator and the school nurse for the middle and high school which has 950 kids total. I make 26,856 a year. The other two nurses are nurses for one school which are the elementary schools. They make 16,100 a year! I have no health assistant or secretaries and neither do they. I have been fighting for them to get an increase and they keep saying there is no money for it. We don't even have a budget to draw from. I am trying to change that, but it seems like I am fighting a losing battle. I have to bring work home with me all of the time.

I am just curious how many out there are district health coordinators and a school nurse at the same time. I got this job last year in December but I worked at the same school system before from 2010 to 2012, and we worked under the health department then. Now I am hired by the school district. I am the nurse for both the Middle and High School, which has 950 students total. There is a nurse at each elementary school one with 200 students, and one with 500 students. I do not have a health assistant or a secretary, I have to do absolutely everything on my own. I am also the health coordinator and have those duties as well as the school nurse duties and I feel so overwhelmed. At the middle school I have 14 students with daily meds and/or chronic health care needs which often involve more visits and a lot more monitoring, but they send kids for every little thing and I see 35 to 40 students a day most of the time just at that school. I am at the High School from when school starts until 1030 or 11, so that many students come most of the time in that time frame as well. I feel like I can't adequately take care of the students that really need to be there, and then I am expected to monitor staff compliance with medication teaching, advising for all the health conditions in the districts, wellness committees, organizing staff health prevention measures and student as well, and many others which I am not going to name one by one. I have voiced my concern to the principal at the middle school, the dpp. I have given guidelines for when students should come down, I have implemented passes, everything that I can think of, and it is not working. Not to mention that at the Middle school I was still having to put consents together and learn about new conditions I need to be aware of because they had not all came to me until 2 weeks ago, a month after school started, and then you have to send home careplans, identify them, and send home all necessary paperwork, and so on and so on. I guess I just want to know if anyone else is out there in the same position or has been and if you have any advice or strategies that you have used that have worked in the past or are working. Maybe it will get better once I have all of what I consider are the most important duties which are careplans and figuring out what needs to be done for the students to be safe and secure, or I need to just realize that maybe I am just not cut out for it, and maybe I need to do them a favor and have them find someone better. I worked on a med surgical floor for 12 years and it was often extremely busy and overwhelming, but I was able to do my job effectively and get what needed to be done and felt satisfied with my accomplishments and felt I did my job well, and we had to work alone a lot too, but I feel like either I am not cut out for this, or maybe some others on here feel like I do and maybe I am doing the best I can and just need to be satisfied with that. I was often bragged about on the med surgical floor about my time management skills as well, so I don't feel like that is the problem. Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated.