Jill Sallman is the school nurse for Rock Creek High School. She became a nurse because she likes the many positions that you can do in that field of career.
“I’ve always kind of had a desire to help and comfort people, and I feel like there is a great need for nurses, and I saw that there was a lot of flexibility and different kinds of nursing that you could do,” Sallman said.
Jill Sallmon may not always be available; the students go to Mason until Jill is available. Mason is the administrative assistant for Rock Creek High School
“… We’re first aid trained and certified and CPR and all of that but I do not have the same training and credentials and licenses as any of the other three nurses that work here,” Swenson said.
The 2011 budget cuts caused the school to lose the VSP program which helped students with eye care and made it hard for the school to find resources in case of emergencies for students the budget cuts are still going on to this day.
“It would be finding resources with budget cuts, like we try to help out if someone needs assistance with getting glasses, and the VSP program that we used to use was cut due to budget cuts,” Sallman said.
Swenson usually deals with the smaller things like headaches while Sallman deals with the bigger things such as seizures until the ambulance arrives.
“If it’s something that’s going on during the day, we’ll usually just give them a call and say, hey, you know So what’s going on? What do you think you know? Do you want to send them home? Do you want to keep them? The broader health concerns like diabetic or seizures or those kinds of bigger medical concerns, those kind those go through more the building nurse so nurse Jill will handle getting all of those plans and things set up, and then I work with her to try and put them into action. Following what she has set for student plans and emergency action plans,” Swenson said.
Rock Creek works hard when it comes to medical emergencies and to stay prepared for serious situations, Rock Creek has developed a structured approach to medical emergencies.
“I feel like that’s something that we’ve worked really hard on here at Rock Creek, we have a crisis planning meeting where we get together. We started getting together once a month to talk about different things that are happening in the school, especially medical concerns,” Sallmon said.
