School nurse perks :)

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Early dismissals and snow days!

In previous jobs, of course, there was no getting out for bad weather, and then there was the scramble to get childcare lined up or decide whether my husband or I was taking the day off.

Anyone else have a favorite perk?

Specializes in School Nursing, Pediatrics.

Same schedule as my kids so I don't have to worry about who is picking them up and bringing them to activites!

SUMMER vacation!

Snow Days!!!

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Specializes in ED, School Nurse.

Yes to all of the above!!!

My first snow day I was so excited I couldn't fall back asleep after the 5 am call. I've moved past that stage, thank goodness.

I dig my students.

My kids go to school where I work.

I have direct access to my daughter's IEP team and have had impromptu meetings in my office with her case manager to find a solution to an issue she was having.

I mostly get to eat every day. And most days I actually finish my lunch, even if I do get interrupted.

The singing custodian. We have a custodian with a gorgeous voice, and I get to hear him sing as he walks down the hall. He just walked by singing "I Just Called to Say I Love You" by Stevie Wonder. AAANNDD now that song is stuck in my head.

The secretaries are cool.

Most of the teachers are cool, even though I don't always get included in stuff (the librarian and I have formed a little club, and the math department has adopted me).

I have you all here at AN-SN to bounce questions off of, or share stories with. (I ended that sentence with a preposition and I don't care!)

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Specializes in Telemetry, Gastroenterology, School Nrs.

Summer vacation

Spring Break

Christmas Break

President's Day

Martin Luther King Day

Snow days

Delay days

AND... being at the schools with my own kiddos :)

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Specializes in Psychiatric Nursing.

No mandatory overtime with the threat of disciplinary action! I walk out the door at 3:30 pm, each and every day! No waiting for a nurse to relieve me! Since I'm the only nurse in the building, no power struggles with other medical professionals. Coffee is already made when I arrive in the morning! I also love fielding questions from the students about being a nurse. I'm in an elementary school with a large population of kids from Central America, and I enjoy telling them that here in America, they can grow up to be anything they want to be! Feeling like a role model, not just "another nurse." Snow days are the icing on the cake...we jut had one last Friday, which made for a 3-day weekend!

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.

I do love telling the kids about all the different types of nursing. I feel like that scene in Forrest Gump where they're Bubba talks about all the things you can make with shrimp.

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My favorite perks regarding school nursing are Holiday breaks and Summer vacations!

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Specializes in School Nursing, Ambulatory Care, etc..

Monday - Friday, 0800 - 1600

NO CALL

Home with my kids - even though they are HS

A week off at Thanksgiving

2.5 weeks off at Christmas

A week and a day off at Spring Break

Summer!

And, every once in a while, I get to make a difference in a kid's life. I had the experience of watching a Kinder put on a pair of glasses for the first time and her whole world changed. It was the most amazing thing to watch a child, who didn't know the world wasn't fuzzy, all of the sudden be able to see. :)

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Specializes in IMC, school nursing.

Now that I am exclusively a school nurse, I have a beautiful perspective:

Snow days

No Holidays

No nights

No Press-Ganey garbage

Administrators who respect me and my views

Coworkers who see life from a different perspective (love my nurses, but it is all the same)

Being with my children

Dealing with the students

Being able to teach

Less stress

What a list, what a blessing. TYL!

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All of the above, except snow days. No snow days in this part of California.

1. Not being called and worn down into working extra.

2. Teaching kids, I love answering any of their health/body systems related questions. The other day I explained to a 7th grader that your GI tract and GU tract were not directly connected (they had asked if one could "pee out gallstones")

3. I look cuter in dresses than I do in scrubs

4. I smell better at the end of the work day

5. My kids are rad

6. I never go to or leave work when it's dark outside

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No "can you stay over, come in early, work an extra day" calls.

I'm here with my daughter and next year my son will be here too.

Knowing the inner workings of the school(blessing and a curse sometimes!)

Snow days!!!

No moving 300lbs+ patients, so it's much easier on my shoulder!

The kids are pretty fantastic

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No Press-Ganey garbage

I LOATHE Press-Ganey.....I am not a customer service rep. I am a nurse and my job is to keep you alive not be your handmaiden....

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Specializes in Peds, School Nurse, clinical instructor.

Perks.....My own office, awesome students, pretty cool co-workers, LOTS of time off and of course.......All Of YOU!!!

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