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Lucille

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Anyone have friends in the med supply biz? I am now a school nurse again (going to school myself nights and weekends); the school I have chosen has an extremely limited budget for the clinic and is not affluent in general, although a terrific school.
I am looking to buy some start up supplies as well as an audiometer, please email me if you have any connections that might help.
Thanks.
 
Lucille I have a suggestion. If there is a Walmart Distribution Center somewhere near your school (or even far away) you might approach them for some of the supplies you might need and perhaps a monetary donation for the things they can't supply.

I know this is a strange suggestion, but one of my interesting experiences of the summer tells me it has a good chance of helping. I'll share my experience (the relevant parts of it) so that you can see why I make this suggestion.

The town where I live has a WalMart Distribution Center. This is where all the things arrive via a zillion different companies, and then get put into the trucks that go to the various stores. It is not retail in any way at all. I went there as part of a business/educators exchange week. While I was there one of the things they mentioned (and I've experienced--working at the nearest high school to this place) how they have a fairly large discretionary fund that they spend on public service things. Heck, they have one huge stack of about 4 square flats at the base, and six or eight high of marked-not-for-resale water that they keep on hand for any sort of emergency. AT our distribution center the head honcho spreads the wealth around. It's well-known at our high school that whenever there's a need, someone can always pipe up "We can ask Walmart". And they always mean the distribution center.

Now I know that Walmart is not popular, but they do try to do some good works and this is one of them. So you might try. I don't know, of course, how you can find out where the nearest distribution center is. Perhaps ask your nearest store where their dry-goods distribution center is. (they have perishable distribution centers that are usually different)
 
My visits to businesses this summer really opened my eyes to how much the business community really wants to help out the education community. I visited 5 businesses and spent half a day with each of them. They want to be sure that the education community turns out people who are employable. The businesses I visited, to give an idea of what my experience was like, were the following: Walmart Distribution Center; Small Private Doctor's Office; YMCA; Electric Company; and a Golf Club. The people from these businesses are interested in being involved. I was very moved by the dedication these companies had to the youth of today and have plans to take advantage of the connections I made. Not monetarily, but in actual time spent in my classroom. I know that seeing REAL WORLD people who have jobs and who can tie in what the kids are learning to the paycheck they receive it will help my students see how important what I'm teaching is to them.

IN any case, my main point is that you might be surprised at the willingness of big and small businesses alike to help education out with money, materials, and even time.
 
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