Specializes in RETIREDMed nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
Hahahahaha! Are you school nurses even WORKING right now? Or sneaking in these posts in between paperwork and puke-threatening kids?
I love reading this thread! I am NOT jumping on y'all, I promise! (Far'wyn, tell'em I'm not!) Just yanking your chain(s).
It's a goooood thing it takes all kinds to make the world go 'round; if I had to work as a school nurse, I might get the Screamin' Mimi's. Give me a crabby, cranky and/or dementia'd old person to take care of...any time!
I never enjoyed BEING a kid in school, and didn't appreciate too many of my (mean, snotty) classmates, so spending the day WORKING in that situation would be a particular nightmare to me.
I think I was one of those kids who could've used a screening like achurley mentioned at the top of the page; HOWEVER, a 'modern-day' screening as opposed to the one I might have gotten in the 1950's when I was in grade-school.
Who knows what kind of medicine I might have ended up being prescribed back then, after the screening sent me right to a psych doc! Back then I think they used things like Phenobarb, Thorazine, and Miltown, often referred to as "Mother's Little Helper" by the housewives of America. Imagine a child on Thorazine? Talk about your ZOMBIES!
The only dealings I had with our school nurse was during the mass-injections we lined up for. She was a very no-nonsense nurse!
At any rate, once the whole grade-school fiasco was over with, I was quite relieved to be moving on. In later years I realized I had been gifted with a character-building life experience. But I never felt warm and fuzzy about kids after all that! So, peds or school-nursing? Fugghedaboudit!
Hahahahaha! Are you school nurses even WORKING right now? Or sneaking in these posts in between paperwork and puke-threatening kids?
I love reading this thread! I am NOT jumping on y'all, I promise! (Far'wyn, tell'em I'm not!) Just yanking your chain(s).
It's a goooood thing it takes all kinds to make the world go 'round; if I had to work as a school nurse, I might get the Screamin' Mimi's. Give me a crabby, cranky and/or dementia'd old person to take care of...any time!
I never enjoyed BEING a kid in school, and didn't appreciate too many of my (mean, snotty) classmates, so spending the day WORKING in that situation would be a particular nightmare to me.
I think I was one of those kids who could've used a screening like achurley mentioned at the top of the page; HOWEVER, a 'modern-day' screening as opposed to the one I might have gotten in the 1950's when I was in grade-school.
Who knows what kind of medicine I might have ended up being prescribed back then, after the screening sent me right to a psych doc! Back then I think they used things like Phenobarb, Thorazine, and Miltown, often referred to as "Mother's Little Helper" by the housewives of America. Imagine a child on Thorazine? Talk about your ZOMBIES!
The only dealings I had with our school nurse was during the mass-injections we lined up for. She was a very no-nonsense nurse!
At any rate, once the whole grade-school fiasco was over with, I was quite relieved to be moving on. In later years I realized I had been gifted with a character-building life experience. But I never felt warm and fuzzy about kids after all that! So, peds or school-nursing? Fugghedaboudit!
SSSHHH!! Having a forum open that says "School nurse" in the header make it look like i'm doing very important work between my charting and parade of malingerers. Now don't go spilling my secrets
SSSHHH!! Having a forum open that says "School nurse" in the header make it look like i'm doing very important work between my charting and parade of malingerers. Now don't go spilling my secrets
Yea, in between snatching kids from the jaws of death!!
SSSHHH!! Having a forum open that says "School nurse" in the header make it look like i'm doing very important work between my charting and parade of malingerers. Now don't go spilling my secrets
JenTheSchoolRN, BSN, RN
3,035 Posts
She has never spent time with us, clearly :).