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LEADING & SERVING WITH COMPASSION Special Education Programs nurse Pamela Wampler recognized for mentoring peers and building strong bonds with students
And on another stop that became immediately necessary, she checked on a student who fell on the playground. (The student was OK.)
Healthcare staff also stopped by Wampler’s desk to sign a pair of brightly colored cards she kept for her colleagues with upcoming birthdays. Managing cards and planning birthday celebrations for her colleagues is one of the additional tasks Wampler volunteers to take on.
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On another, she trained staff to make sure they were up to speed on changes to student care plans.
In the afternoon, she returned to McFall School to tube feed a student and took care of business in her office. At the same time, as she completed her afternoon paperwork, she also trained a new LVN in her first month on the job between talking with credentialed school nurses who walked in with case files holding more changes in care plans for students.
It was pretty much a typical day. In her two decades with the SJCOE, she has cemented her place at the center of both the operations and the heart of the department within the organization that cares for the medical needs of students across San Joaquin County in SJCOE Special Education Programs.
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At one stop, she taught medical procedures to staff members at the school.
All of this was before noon.
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On a recent morning, the duties of an itinerant nurse in the San Joaquin County Office of Education (SJCOE) Special Education Programs took Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) Pam Wampler to four different school sites, from Manteca to Mountain House and back again.
