Need to vent.....dont understand why people are so nasty

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I just need to vent, reply if you want lol. Today was a hot mess. Two students have strep but family is a nurse and they are fine to be in school and then she took off real quick. Our school policy is that if they have strep they have to be excluded from school for 24 hours while the antibiotics are started....unless they have a physicians note clearing them. Family refused to come get them. Just had to vent to other nurses who may have some advice.

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Specializes in Orthopedics.

You don't need any advice...just some kudos! You did a fabulous job. Considering the environment you work in, the information you were provided by the aunt, the policies and procedures set in place at your school you did exactly what was expected of you. People will try to push you around, no matter what area of nursing you work in. You have a responsibility to protect the other students as well as the faculty from getting ill - evident by the principal supporting your position. Pat yourself on the back knowing you did your job and did it well.

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.

Yep, you made the right call! I get tired of getting my behind handed to be by parents because they don't agree with my enforcement of policies.

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Specializes in kids.

Hats off to you!

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Specializes in HH, Peds, Rehab, Clinical.

Thanking you on behalf of the kids/parents who are in the classroom with those 2 girls!! BTW, do you think the aunt is really a nurse?

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Specializes in Neuro ICU and Med Surg.

I agree thank you on behalf of all the other kids/parents in that classroom with those 2 kids. You did the right thing.

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Specializes in MR/DD.

Too bad the doctor didnt have the guts to stand up to her. Too many times I have seen doctors do what the patient/guardian says just to shut them up. Every doctor I have ever known has always said to stay home for the first 24 hours of antibiotic therapy.. for strep.

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Some people are such jerks they shouldn't be allowed to have children! She's probably that way at home with them too! Kudos to you-you ABSOLUTELY did the right thing!

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Misty,

You are there for a reason, and what is the point of preventative protocols if we don't have to strive to follow them consistently? Clearly this person didn't understand or doesn't care to understand. As a parent, I applaud you in your work as you try to protect the children and community.

Some parents can't even be trusted to give their children the complete and full course of the antibiotics--and these folks are contributors to pathogenic chemo-resistance.

Isn't being a nurse grand at times? ;)

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Too bad the doctor didnt have the guts to stand up to her. Too many times I have seen doctors do what the patient/guardian says just to shut them up. Every doctor I have ever known has always said to stay home for the first 24 hours of antibiotic therapy.. for strep.

Yes, well, if it is strep and the 24 course of therapy wasn't followed, and then an outbreak of strep occurs, it's on the doc.

Of course who knows. Maybe the mom lied and stated she had followed the 24 hour period on antibiotics with her kids. OTOH, maybe it was not truly strep.

Seems to me with communicable diseases, the school nurse should be able to contact the doctor and discuss what's what and as well as concerns regarding whether the children were given the antbx's or not.

Thankfully, most of the parents I've worked with in my job have been great; but there are those that, well, suck to one degree or another.

I've seen a mom give her kids cheetos for dinner. Really? I mean it was not like she wasn't getting money for something healthier than that.

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How do you know it's streptococcus? So many people call any old bad sore throat "strep" when it's most often viral. If you have done a rapid-strep in your office and have documentation, you do what you have to do. If the kids were diagnosed by a physician or ANP office with rapid-strep, they would have been given a prescription there. So I have to wonder about this.

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Specializes in ER.

First, you did the right thing. Second, I think people do this kind of stuff out of desperation. They are afraid they will lose their jobs or they get paid by the hour and desperately need the money. I really think most people want to be home with sick kids. Heart breaking. Sorry you were in an awkward spot.

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