Published Mar 10, 2016
Eleven011
1,250 Posts
We don't have a summer school program here, one or two special cases may get some extra help, but no structured "school". So those that say they are working summer school - are you working as the school nurse? or in some other capacity? Those who are only working a week of it, or say they aren't working it - do they hire another nurse to do it? Just curious how this works!
zombieghoast
410 Posts
I am working officially as school nurse and we have to put in an application for it to the nursing supervisor. She then goes by who has been working in the school system for the longest. There was an applicant outside of the school system who applied and my supervisor gave it to me automatically.
bell1962
345 Posts
I am in a special ed setting. We have an extended year program for 6 weeks in the summer and we pull students from other districts that don't have their own programs. We have the option to work it or not. Quite a few nurses are needed and they do hire from the outside.
Flare, ASN, BSN
4,431 Posts
when i work summer school, it's a 4 hour day for me - m-f usually 6-8 weeks out of my summer unless i tell them in advance that i can't work part of it. I am here in the capacity of the nurse - with the only added job that i take attendance, which i don't handle during the year. But I make bank so i find it hard to turn down unless we're actually going somewhere. Plus my daughter still wants to go to summer camp. Lord knows that I can't entertain her for the summer and her camp is a great deal, so i might as well make some money and organize my office while i'm at it.
AdobeRN
1,294 Posts
Our district will have summer school for all - elementary, middle and high school. We have a couple of different programs - vary hours/dates depending on the program. Some run June 6-23 7:30-12:30 while a few of them run 7:30-3:00 June 6-2nd week of July.
A nurse is hired for each campus that holds summer school and they are responsible for nurse stuff along with front office - answering phones, attendance. Easy money for us nurses and low stress. I subbed a few times in the past and I basically sat in the front office reading a book all morning.