[SarahW]

School nurses are the dumbest nurses...they can't get a better job anywhere else. Often they are merely LPN's with two years of junior college.

Dumb as rocks. Barely literate, with limited higher-order thinkng skills. Stuck on procedure and routine even when a sharper mind would notice that something else was required.

Frankly, many of the RN's I've had privilege to work with were not the brightest bulbs in the drawer...just average to slightly above average in intelligence. They had very narrow understanding of medical issues, despite...or perhaps because of...their nurses training.

[Born Conservative]

Often they are merely LPN's with two years of junior college.

LPN's (at least in Pennsylvania) usually attend a LPN school, and do not receive college credits. RN's are trained either through a "diploma school", junior college, or 4 year college.

many of the RN's I've had privilege to work with were not the brightest bulbs in the drawer...just average to slightly above average in intelligence. They had very narrow understanding of medical issues, despite...or perhaps because of...their nurses training.
 

Where did YOU work? I can say that when I graduated from nursing school, most of those who were not "the brightest bulbs in the drawer" were weeded out before we took our boards.

I agree that there are a lot of school nurses that are policy wonks, and put a priority on paper work over patient care. Surprisingly, many school nurses don't have Pediatric experience. I would like to say, though, that there are good school nurses, as well as good LPN's.

[Teacher317]

My significant other is a nursing professor at a Div I-A university. She personally testifies about the appallingly low quality of students, and its continued decline for years. However, as the trend to hold nurses more liable (since doctors can affod better lawyers), giving them higher degrees of responsibility, and keeping their pay rather low, those who possess higher intelligence and betters consciences are simply going elsewhere... add in the fact that the unions are looking to make nursing their next playground to destroy, and you're looking at some real trouble in the near future.