school nurse
School Nurse
Spending two days shadowing a school nurse was a wonderful experience. I had the pleasure of doing my school nurse rotation at Fox Creek Junior High School. I never realized how difficult and overwhelming it could be to be a school nurse. Ms. Bodauine was the nurse I got to shadow. She spent her day doing paperwork, helping the sick and injured, and doing vision and hearing screenings. There were several kids who came in throughout the day, approximately twenty-one per day that was either sick or injured. Upon each kids visit, I had the opportunity to observe, assess, and communicate with them. I was able to observe behaviors of some children showing Industry vs. Inferiority, according to Erickson. I also observed transitions the kids were experiencing, such as situational, health-illness, developmental, and organizational.
Industry versus Inferiority is the fourth stage of Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development. This stage occurs during childhood. During this stage children want to do productive work on their own. “Difficulty with the child’s ability to move between the world at home and the world with peers can lead to feeling of inferiority. It is vital for children at this stage to discover pleasure in being productive and the need to succeed.” (Erik Erikson’s 8 stages of psychsocial development, “n.d.”) Two examples of industry that I witnessed in two different children that I observed are: The nurse gave a paraplegic girl her physical therapy progress report to give to her parents instead of mailing it out. This showed the student that the nurse trusted her to give the note to her parents, which made the student feel productive by her accomplishment. The second example took place when I was doing a vision screening on a little girl. Before starting the screening she started asking questions. She asked why she had to get the test done, what each line meant on the snellen chart, and what would happen if she failed the
Spending two days shadowing a school nurse was a wonderful experience. I had the pleasure of doing my school nurse rotation at Fox Creek Junior High School. I never realized how difficult and overwhelming it could be to be a school nurse. Ms. Bodauine was the nurse I got to shadow. She spent her day doing paperwork, helping the sick and injured, and doing vision and hearing screenings. There were several kids who came in throughout the day, approximately twenty-one per day that was either sick or injured. Upon each kids visit, I had the opportunity to observe, assess, and communicate with them. I was able to observe behaviors of some children showing Industry vs. Inferiority, according to Erickson. I also observed transitions the kids were experiencing, such as situational, health-illness, developmental, and organizational.
Industry versus Inferiority is the fourth stage of Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development. This stage occurs during childhood. During this stage children want to do productive work on their own. “Difficulty with the child’s ability to move between the world at home and the world with peers can lead to feeling of inferiority. It is vital for children at this stage to discover pleasure in being productive and the need to succeed.” (Erik Erikson’s 8 stages of psychsocial development, “n.d.”) Two examples of industry that I witnessed in two different children that I observed are: The nurse gave a paraplegic girl her physical therapy progress report to give to her parents instead of mailing it out. This showed the student that the nurse trusted her to give the note to her parents, which made the student feel productive by her accomplishment. The second example took place when I was doing a vision screening on a little girl. Before starting the screening she started asking questions. She asked why she had to get the test done, what each line meant on the snellen chart, and what would happen if she failed the
References: (“n.d.”). Erik Erikson’s 8 stages of psychsocial development. Retrieved from http://web.cortland.edu/andersmd/ERIK/stage4.HTML Fraser-Thill, R. (2010). How do tweens change over the Middle-school transition. Retrieved from http://tweenparenting.about.com/od/educationissues/a/Middle-School-Transition.htm