S/O School Nurses

[iheartthe80s]

I remember very clearly having a school nurse in elementary school. When we were in 7th grade we were moved to the high school (7-12 building). Very small school…about 80 a class. Anyway, I never saw a school nurse again. Meaning, there was not one in the building. Is this right? Am I delusional?

[rosesandpetals]

I didn't have a school nurse but I went to private school. There are districts here with a nurse who rotates through different schools so she's at each high school for 1/2 the day.

[penguingrrl]

I always had a school nurse in any building I attended K-12. My elementary and middle schools were small (64 kids in my 8th grade graduating class and that was the entire town), my HS was medium sized (210 graduates). I've since learned that not all schools had someone.

[cna]

Every school I went to had a full time nurse. The city I grew up in was pretty small (not so much now) and had a handful of elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school. I imagine it might be different in a large district.

[lala]

Nov 25, 2014 22:07:19 GMT -5 penguingrrl said:

I always had a school nurse in any building I attended K-12. My elementary and middle schools were small (64 kids in my 8th grade graduating class and that was the entire town), my HS was medium sized (210 graduates). I've since learned that not all schools had someone.

This, we had them all through. 1 in elem & middle and 2 in high school. We had 400 in hs graduating class, maybe 100 per grade in elem.

[mamaalysson]

We had a dedicated school nurse through middle school (though I think she rotated among a couple schools) and in high school we had an on campus health clinic. It didn't matter what you went in for, they always tried to give you a handful of condoms as a parting gift. Headache? Here's your Tylenol and a side of prophylactics.

[iheartthe80s]

No condoms at my high school. It would have ended up in the news. LOL. Very small, conservative high school (although public). I remember 2 counselors, but we only saw them to discuss college stuff…you know, leave study hall to go flip through catalogs in their office. It was the 80s. We actually put a telephone into a holder to connect to the computer so we could look at college stuff.

[quesyrah]

I went to private school but we had a nurse. I know our district that we live in has a traveling nurse

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We had a nurse in Elem, one in middle, and I think several at my HS. But our HS had like, 2000+ students.

[gastro]

I always had a nurse and I went to public and private schools in California and New York State.

[minismama]

We had a nurse at every level. Only 1 in elem and middle but 2 in high school. I graduated in a high school class of almost 500.

[thecheshirekat]

When I went to school, there was always a nurse. The school I taught at only had a nurse on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I still don't know WTF happened to any kid who got sick on the other three days of the week.

[zbeesma86]

we had one from kindergarten till high school

[jnksmom]

The district I went to had a nurse at every school. The district my kids go to has a nurse for each school but not full time. Our nurse is responsible for 2 schools, the elementary and the high school next door.

[lexus]

No nurse at my private elementary and middle school and one at my high school. In the district I work in nurses come out of the discretionary fund. Some schools have nurses part time, some full time and some have health techs, again pastime or full time. It becomes really problematic for kids with serious health issues like diabetes, etc.

[scattered]

We didn't have a nurse at my K-8 Catholic school but we did have a nurse in high school.