Vent! Teachers,parents and students ready for break!

[raidermom]

Okay I am so ready to be out of school, I have reached my limit of teachers trying to override my decision about whether a student needs to go home or stay at school. I have a teacher that wants her students out of her room for a runny nose!! Then I have had teachers send the same students back to me 5 times in an hour because they tell them they dont feel good. I was actually very harsh with a student and teacher this week because they wanted to send the student home without any signs of sickness and they said the student was running a fever because they were hot even though my thermometer said temp was 97.6. I actuallytold both the teacher and student that there was nothing wrong with them and they would not be going home that day until the bell rang and then I told the teacher that I don't come in her classroom and tell her how to teach so don't come to my office and tell me how to be a nurse. I have never done that and I am ashamed that I let my temper get the best of me. Of course I am working sick with bronchitis because there are no subs to be found. I have had 4 shots this week to try to prevent pneumonia and a hospital stay and they don't want a kid who has a runny nose in their room???!!!THEN you have the parents who after calling 5 phone numbers you still cant get ahold of to come pick up their vomitting, running fever child so they are in your office all day/afternoon.

I am sorry this is so long nd a vent but I had to let it out someway!No one seems to understand why I am upset and have said that I really needed to take a day off if I was gonna act like I was acting. My reaction to that is Friday cannot get her fast enough!!!

[fetch, BSN, RN]

I don't want to jinx myself . . . but during the three days we've been back, three of my daily meds kids switched to at-home medications, and the total number of clinic visits for all three days is about equal to ONE day before break! I've only seen 1 of my FFs!

I should be enjoying this in anticipation of March (which I have been assured is when the code brown hits the oscillator) but honestly I'm just a little weirded out.

[100kids, BSN, RN]

It always feels weird to me to be back after a break. It'll take me a few days to get back into my groove...