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Supervisor Retiring, Now!

Wow, we just got informed that our Nurse Supervisor is retiring, in 4 weeks! A shocker. Well, she is 66 but she's held our hands and the district for 14 years. Her health has started to decline lately and the new Admin has not been listening to her on all things covid. What are we 20 health staff going to do? She oversees our meetings, orders supplies, sends updates on forms and CDC changes, reminds us of our recertifications, etc. She's our go-to person when principals, parents or the community gives us push back. She doesn't know when or if they will replace her. This district is not small or huge but it is very spoiled and handled with white kid gloves. We have about 10,000 students and staff in total. With covid CDC changes, we have a spreadsheet to hunt down the student or staff to check temps when they return after a 10-day quarantine.  We have a hotline for them to call over the weekend and evening to the supervisor and 2 others that rotate when they don't feel well. If we don't return parent calls within an hour, they call and report it to her. Real spoiled. So, what are we going to do for the rest of the year? Oh my.

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    Apply for her job??  LOL!

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    Yay for her retiring! This year has been hard on everyone, but the lead nurses have really had a rough time. They are medical professionals being told how to carry out policies and procedures from non-medical administration (in most cases.) I am happy to hear that she put herself and her health on top priority. Now...I am sorry for you. Good lead nurses are hard to come by. It sounds like you have good systems in place. Hopefully the next person will continue with what's already working.

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    Hopefully they will come up with a plan ahead of time to delegate out the roles and responsibilities like ordering supplies, etc.  My guess is they will quickly realize the need to hire a new nurse leader.  It is definitely a role I do not envy since the start of this pandemic!

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    No, I don't want that headache besides, I'm counting toward retirement days even more now. I think they would feel better to keep things in check knowing if left to the masses, it may be different roads for each his own. Somethings I do think is over documentation. So I could see the aides calling different ones getting different answers. I don't know if it would be better to get a new leader or one amongst us who knows the ritual, not including me, of course. We will see. ?

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