• August 01, 2023

1. What is the name of your profession (position)? I am a school nurse. 2. What is your job and what are your responsibilities? My job is to protect the health of children and the teaching staff of the secondary school. I have many responsibilities. Remember yourself in your school years - how many abrasions, cuts, bruises and other injuries you received in childhood! First aid, both for injuries and for various acute diseases, is my most immediate responsibility. I am the one who treats wounds, sees those who seek help, issues referrals to see a doctor (at the same time, I weed out those who try to feign various illnesses in order to skip classes). At the same time, I am responsible for the quality of food prepared in the local school cafeteria, compiling the menu, monitoring compliance with the rules of sanitary and temperature conditions. My duties include the organization of vaccination of children, the organization of annual preventive examinations of both children and teachers. 3. What education is required to get your position? To be able to work in my position, you need to graduate from a secondary medical school (college) as a nurse or paramedic. 4. Describe your working day. My working day begins with a walk around the school grounds, checking its sanitary condition. Then I visit the school cafeteria, where I take part in the preparation of school breakfasts and lunches, and distribute disinfectants. In the cold season, I take temperature measurements in all classes. After all, I receive patients, visit various classes, where I conduct examinations of children for pediculosis, and take samples of prepared school meals. I finish the working day with the execution of various medical documentation. 5. How comfortable are your working conditions (all day outside, or in the office with a cup of coffee)? Most of the work time is spent in the premises of their own office or school premises. 6. What do you like most about your job? I really love my job, the opportunity to help the sick. In addition, my work is constant communication and communication mainly with children. And this does not give you the opportunity to relax. Next to children, you forget about your age and some of your problems, you involuntarily become younger and fitter. 7. What do you dislike most about your job? There are also negative sides, but they are more connected with the fact that much for the necessary work has to be obtained and begged for, as if you personally need it. Yes, and too much paper work, but without it, nowhere. 8. If it's not a secret, what is your salary level? The salary level corresponds to the minimum salary and, of course, more is desired, but this has to be put up with. 9. Describe your team, what kind of people work with you? If we talk about direct employees, then I don’t have them. I am the only health worker in the school, but I work very closely with the school administration, teachers, kitchen workers, technical staff. Each of them has its own character, its habits.glasses and outlook on life, but we are united by the fact that we are doing one common thing. The majority of people are open and friendly - others are not allowed here - we work with children. 10. What human qualities do you think are most important in your business? It is very important to be able to combine softness in communication, benevolence and openness with exactingness to fulfill obligations. After all, a lot depends on how you organize the work, and, above all, the health of children. 11. Work gives me additional opportunities Work helps personal self-expression, disciplines, gives me the opportunity to communicate with a variety of people - from the smallest first-graders to their parents. And, if you also take into account that you regularly have to communicate with teachers, and with polyclinic doctors, with ambulance teams, SES workers, technical staff, then you can imagine how many interesting people you have to communicate with and how much you take out useful from such communication 12. Do you have the opportunity to evaluate your work on a five-point scale, what grade would you give? 4 13. Why did you choose this job? I have always enjoyed treating people and I also love children. 14. What do you think we did not include in the plan and what else would you like to share with us? It just seems to me that no matter what you do in life, you need to love your job and then you can get the most out of it, even with a small salary. After all, salary means a lot, but not everything! A person must realize himself in what he feels his calling for, and then he will receive self-satisfaction and the love of others. And that, oh, how many! 0