Who uses the restroom in your office?

verdeacres · Dec 20, 2016

My office is always open, it is in the office complex, so you have to go through the attendance secretary to get to it. It is a mixed bag of who uses the restroom, teachers for overflow, sick kids, me if I need to. I am a contract nurse - not a school employee. Might make me feel a bit different.

BeckyESRN · Dec 20, 2016

The office secretary has keys to my office, doors only-not the med cabinets, only the principal has a copy of those. As for the restroom, my first year I had a student with CP, transfer x2 who used my restroom because I was needed to assist, I also have a special needs student that uses my restroom because he just takes forever if he's in the regular restroom, I have one student that cannot behave in the restroom so he has to use mine, one on a restroom schedule the uses mine 4 times a day, and one on bowel training that uses it after lunch. The occasional teacher will attempt to use mine, but I always warn them that I'm not responsible for what's behind that door! Also any girls that need pads know that they can use my restroom anytime.

Eleven011 · Dec 20, 2016

There is a preschool across the hall one way and ECIP (early childhood) across the other way that all use my bathroom. Its much closer and less scary than the big bathroom down the hall. Plus there is room to lay on the floor and change a diaper for the SPED kids. Any kid who is sick in my office uses it. Staff rarely do.

As for keys, my office is locked. There is an extra set for subs to use that is kept with the main office secretary. The janitors have a key to my office door, but not the med cabinets.

NutmeggeRN, BSN · Dec 20, 2016

Me, any kids in here, a select group of kids who hate the idea of someone else hearing them pee, poo or fart, and anyone else who needs privacy.

SassyTachyRN · Dec 20, 2016

Hiiiiiii!
So I'm having a bit of an issue, but wanted to consult with the pros first. Two things: first, who uses the restrooms in your office? And second, who else has keys to your office? Maybe I'm going a bit overboard:facepalm:, but I thought I'd ask first. Let me hear from you all! Thanks!

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Big school- Sometimes staff- they will ask me first- did someone get sick in here or have diarrhea? If the answer is no, they'll use it. I will use it, if it's first thing in the AM before the kids use it. Otherwise, clinic kids, kids in office for discipline issues. Keys- me and the secretary.

Small school- it's a tiny toilet (early childhood)- so, any clinic kid or kid who can't use the other restroom properly (discipline), or a kid in the office. Keys- me, principal and secretary.

JenTheSchoolRN, BSN, RN · Dec 20, 2016

Me, any kids in here, a select group of kids who hate the idea of someone else hearing them pee, poo or fart, and anyone else who needs privacy.

Similar. My bathroom is high traffic as I have more than I expected shy high school poopers. The staff who have offices on my floor also ask to use it and I say okay - at their own risk.

But then I realized how gross the high school bathrooms are: seriously, why is it so much trouble for a teenager to flush or not get pee all over the seat? (Boy and girls alike!) Or let someone know when the bathroom is out of toilet paper before the end of the day so it can be restocked (we are a smaller school)?

Flare, ASN, BSN · Dec 20, 2016

There are spare keys to my office in the elementary office and the superintendent has keys (the custodian's too, of course). I am obliged to leave my keys in the office when i leave at the end of the day. i have a spot that i stash my med cabinet keys.

As far as my bathroom goes, i have only one regular user.

Cattz, ADN · Dec 20, 2016

Adults on my end of the building use the bathroom in my office. It is also the "milk station" for nursing mom's. I have to giggle at the abrupt, long faces of the adults that hurry in to use the bathroom quickly, only to be stopped in their tracks when they hear the steady, rhythmic hum of the pump behind the closed door. (HI HO, HI HO, it's off to the student bathroom they go. :whistling: )

My office is always open, the copy machine is in there.

Nurse_JackieVA, BSN, RN · Dec 20, 2016

Students and a few teachers - overflow usually.

The Principal/VP have keys to the clinic and there's an extra set of keys for everything in the main office incase I'm out.

ohiobobcat · Dec 20, 2016

Who uses my bathroom?

Anyone who is in my clinic and needs to use it. One shy pooper who has GI issues. Me. My kids (parent privilege) No staff has ever come to my office to use the bathroom other than using the mirror to put in a contact lens or something like that.

Who has keys?

The office staff, for subs. My guidance secretary will come get health files for students who transfer during the summer since I am not here, so she has a key to my locked filing cabinet. The janitor. I imagine other administrative staff have keys to get in here too. My med cabinet has a keypad to get into it so only those with the code can get in there.

Bevp · Dec 20, 2016

I'm jealous, I do not have a private bathroom in my office, it's down the hall and around the corner! I'm the only school in my charter that doesn't have a bathroom in the clinic. So to answer your question, everyone uses this bathroom. I've been asking to move the clinic to a different location that has it's on facilities just across the playground, and I will continue to push, hopefully next year. Fingers crossed.