R.N. B.S., Moharimet Another calendar year passes and that call from central office comes asking for the school nurses report. Each day is a new experience, a new beginning from the parent that stops you in the parking lot to the child waiting at your door. The needs of the child today are vastly different from those of the child 15 plus years ago. Today's tummy ache can be more complex. It most times is not the newest flu but the bad start to the day, the breakfast not eaten, the new medicine being taken, the Doritos for snack, the insistence at coming to school when no feeling well.
School nursing is as complex as parenting is today.
As we both, parents and nurses, look at the complex needs of the individual child before us, we work toward the physical, emotional, and social success of the child in the learning environment. As nurses seeing 50 plus children a day our days are very full. Every project, meeting, lunch, even writing this report, is constantly interrupted with someone's very important need. Stop in, visit the school nurse's office, volunteer to help with screenings, special projects. Just get to know and see the vast changes.