Tales from the pressure cooker
A personal reflection from the pressure cooker Work has been very difficult for me recently and I have been struggling to feel like I am making any progress. I have felt like I was drowning under my workload and no matter how hard I worked or how many extra hours I worked, it did [...]
Nitty Nora
I am smiling as I write this as my head is already itching at just the thought of my topic this issue: Head lice or more specifically routine head checks in schools. I believe it has been quite a few years since school nurses have routinely offered this service to schools, (and it is not [...]
Once upon a time…
Today I am going to tell you a story. It starts like all good stories do: Once upon a time there were health professionals called school nurses. They looked after children and families in the community and made sure all children were given the best chance of growing up big, strong and healthy. It seemed [...]
Running a sexual health day
Regular readers may recall that I really enjoy the teaching part of my job. So when I was approached by the head of year 9 in one of my secondary schools about doing some sexual health promotion for the whole year, I felt quite excited about the opportunity! I believe that school nurses are [...]
Reviewing a vaccination session
I had a really interestimng trip out last week when I had an opportunity to observe a vacination session in a different school. This came about as a result of an email suggesting that staffing levels were different between teams across our patch. My intial reaction was to feel criticised and quite angry as I [...]
Together Everybody Achieves More!
As many of you may know, I have recently changed jobs. This has led to me moving teams within the same PCT and heading up my own team. Although I enjoy some time alone, I prefer working with others. Therefore, I am very happy at the moment! In the past, I have often felt quite [...]
And for my next party trick..
Something new came along recently. The head teacher at one of my schools asked me if I would deliver short, bite sized assemblies on health related topics. One specific example he gave me was barrier methods of contraception. My immediate reaction was probably one of surprise, followed shortly afterwards by wonder; was it actually possible [...]
You can only eat an elephant in small mouthfuls!
Having recently moved jobs I am currently back to being the ‘new girl’ again; all very exciting but at the same time rather scary. So much to get my head around and what if I make mistakes! I thought it might be useful to recall lessons learnt from past experiences of being in the same [...]
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