Visits per Day

zenman · Jan 21, 2007

Do you really intend to be a CRNA?

TXNurseBSN · Jan 22, 2007

In my school, I do not expect the teacher to make a diagnosis of a health problem. However, I do expect the teacher to know who the frequent fliers are, who the students are who constantly want out of class (I am in a high school) and what is trivial. Trivial examples are picking a scab on the back of a pierced ear, a broken acrylic fingernail, peroxide for piercings, paper cuts, etc. After 16 years, I still love my job as a school nurse but sometimes am still amazed at teachers who send students out of their classrooms for anything and everything. I think that is what LPN 90 was trying to say about training teachers. No one has to worry about my feelings as a school nurse but sometimes I worry about how much education a student is receiving if he/she is constantly in my office. This post was not written to offend anyone but in fairness to all school nurses, I think our skin is thicker than worrying about teachers "worrying about the school nurse's feelings.

Well said! I get a lot of requests for safety pins, rubber bands, styrofoam cups (for teachers coffee). This are related to health and covering a teacher's *** how????

paxlax · May 30, 2007

I not only see children come in for band-aids over cuts that don't exist, but I also get a lot of children fake sick. I work at a school that runs grades 6-12, I have this one kid who comes in almost every period 4, with a new symptom, or something just to get out of math class! I see about 75 kids a day, but I only send about 8-10 home each day.

zenman · Jun 4, 2007

We now have a family practice physician at our school 6 hours a day and she agrees with me about the issues I spoken about in above posts. She plans to talk with the teachers next year as well as require a 2-3 hour first aid course...and the super agrees with her. We'll see how it goes!

Keepstanding, ASN, RN · Jun 4, 2007

Zen,

Keep us updated on how things go next year.

I am not sure which way to go next year....this year has been exasperating

to say the least. So much drama with teachers and so many un-rational expectations from them as well. This year has almost done me in ! :uhoh3:

Have a great summer !

Praiser

zenman · Jun 5, 2007

Zen,
Keep us updated on how things go next year.
I am not sure which way to go next year....this year has been exasperating
to say the least. So much drama with teachers and so many un-rational expectations from them as well. This year has almost done me in !
Have a great summer !
Praiser

Two more days and I'm off for the summer, yeeeha!

shah · Jun 8, 2007

Ladies! Ladies!

Please do not rip up each other up. We know there is a problem, and teachers and nurses should be smart enough to solve it together.

What I would do, is, if a student has been in the nurse's office for, say, 3 consecutive days for the same complaint, a letter can be sent home and parents made to take the child to the doctor and get a doctor's certificate for attending school. This would make parents declare their child is doing fine (in a hurry).

From what I am understanding, the teachers are passing the libaility buck on to the nurses, and the nurses are being used as buffers against trouble. That is not what they are there for. I think every child with a complaint needs to be given attention, but both teachers and nurses should try and assess children for patterns. It is very important to engage parents early on, firstly to obtain care for the child, and secondly to fix dyfunctional patterns.

Let me tell you, I spent the entire year of third grade math class in the nurses cot due to a stomach ache that appeared at the beginning of the third period and went away right before recess. No one tried to fix it, and yes I still don't know math.

shah · Jun 8, 2007

5 day old bruise needs a second opinion for possible child abuse....liability..

whoa! you will wait 5 days to assess possible abuse evidence? why was the child not sent 5 days ago? :angryfire

jjjoy, LPN · Jun 12, 2007

Teacher2bcrna - some school nurses are griping about teachers who send students to the nurse who *obviously* don't need to be sent. You probably don't do this and do have a good reason for the students that you send. Some teachers *do* habitually send students unnecessarily. Just like *some* school nurses are unnecessarily harsh to teachers who make a judgement call that the nurse disagrees with. And please, school nurses, don't assume that I'm saying that YOU are unnecessarily harsh, just that there are probably a few out there who are.

Zenman and others - what's up with generalizing about "teachers" in regard to this one person's postings? As if a nurse has never posted in various color texts before...?!?! :uhoh3: Rhetorical question, y'all, no need to post a point by point explanation of why you felt justifed in generalizing in this case.:smiley_ab