Tired of School Nursing?

[Avill]

Guys,

I've been a school nurse now for 2.5 years. Worked at nursing home before this and do home health PRN (which has been slow!)

Which means two things.

1. I don't get to dress cool interesting wounds as much.

2. Makes our budget a little tighter!

I just get tired of the sucky pay at the school you know? But I know that my little one is only little once and that I can work the rest of my life. I don't know. Guess I'm just venting.

I find myself day dreaming about a more interesting/better paying job.

Okay. End of vent.

[cooties_are_real]

Time to decide what i want to do when i grow up.

Yes!! I say this all the time. My LD just laugh at me. Shoot it took me until I was 27 to go back to school to get my LVN.

[AdobeRN]

You know how HH is...feast or famine. Let's hear from you next month when you're turning down visits!! I've traded off a lot of cool stuff I'd like to have for sitting on the beach during the summer while most of my nurse friends are still hammering away with 12 hours shifts, weekends, etc. Plus having kids in the district incorporates about a thousand eyes on them. I know what happens to them before they do!!

^^^^^THIS^^^^ except my days are spent hiking, backpacking and camping :) My youngest graduated in 2016 - but it was a blessing to be in the same district as them.

[kidzcare]

I don't mind the pace of school nursing. Though I am now in a supervising role and primarily work on IEPs and evaluations while supervising two building nurses. I was getting worn out on being a building nurse after 5 years.

As we have said so many times on our board here... Most of us love the schedule more than anything. This schedule has allowed me to be home with my kids every evening, helping with homework, shuttling to events, attending all after school functions, and leaving the summers for fun!

Most years we've spent tons of time at the pool and now we have started doing summer camp for a month which my kids would never be able to do unless I was a school nurse. It's an unparalleled experience that they love- at least one of my kids mentions camp every single day!

[Csn2016, BSN]

I totally get what your saying. I am almost 2 years in to school nursing and honestly I love it but there are times I think to myself "my gosh how nice would it be to be making an extra 1000$/month if I were back in the hospital setting?"...But then reality hits when I realize while all my nursing friends are whining about going to work during the summer I can spend 2-3 weeks at my aunts beach house with my kids. I grew up as a teachers kid and thinking back the best things about it was having my mom off with us in the summer to do things with us. We had so much fun!

I also never have to worry about driving to work in apocalyptic snow storms any more. I do miss the 'highs' of saving a life from when I worked in the ER--every now and then I'll think back to those awesome codes where you bring someone back from the edge of death (and they actually get to walk out of the hospital a normal functioning human being) or running the code along side the MD like a BOSS...but then that reality is replaced by thinking of how many redundant complaints of 'chest pain', 'migraines', 'abdominal pain', and 'flu like symptoms' I had to see in between those honestly far and few adrenaline pumping situations even while working at a Level 1 trauma center.

[JenTheSchoolRN, BSN, RN]

I also never have to worry about driving to work in apocalyptic snow storms any more. I do miss the 'highs' of saving a life from when I worked in the ER--every now and then I'll think back to those awesome codes where you bring someone back from the edge of death (and they actually get to walk out of the hospital a normal functioning human being) or running the code along side the MD like a BOSS...but then that reality is replaced by thinking of how many redundant complaints of 'chest pain', 'migraines', 'abdominal pain', and 'flu like symptoms' I had to see in between those honestly far and few adrenaline pumping situations even while working at a Level 1 trauma center.

Giving Epi at school for full blown anaphylasix gives me enough of a high. I'm good.