Just Amazed

Thank you, Father above for guiding me to a district/schools where I am respected and supported by teachers and administration alike.

That said, I admire you for maintaining your composure with those teachers. I would not have been kind, patient or respectful, and probably would have had to stay after school and write 100 times, "I will be nice to the teachers, no matter how clueless they are."

I would have handed the peepee pants to the teacher and told her to deal with it. There is no special healthcare knowledge or skills involved in providing clean clothing (which I assume she is just as able to conjure up as you are) and that child deserved privacy while you attended to the truly sick in your office. Time for a discussion with the educational staff. They need to take care of non-emergent issues while you tend to life-threatening crises, and you won't pull kids out of testing for eye exams. Deal?

Here's my vent: I really don't like you using the phrase "peepee pants", I mean seriously?

You go girl! That poster was waaay out of line. Anyway I totally understand how you feel. I felt so bad when I was called to recess for a suspected injury to an ankle but I had to say wait because I was dealing with two diabetics in my health room who needed my attention right away. All about prioritizing.

*blink* What's wrong with "peepee pants"?

I've noticed that on AN when someone doesn't have a decent comeback, they resort to "your not a nurse yet so you can't possibly have any input". Fine, then not as a nurse, or student nurse, but as a parent, if I heard you refer to any child, especially my child as a "peepee pants" I would not stop until I had your job, how's that? Grow up and find a more appropriate phrase that won't hurt the feelings of your "patients" if they over hear it.

The fact that you would ask means it would be a waste of time to explain it to you. It sounds exactly like what another student would call one who has had an "accident" to make fun of or tease them.

Never mind, moving on, because some times you have to cut your losses and realize "you can't fix stupid".

I do support you, in everything else you said except for the inappropriate phrase of "peepee pants". And I am having fun in nursing school, as a matter of fact I am having a blast, making excellent grades and my last clinical instructor said I was way ahead of where a student nurse would be at this time, so thank you. I have no problem supporting fellow nurses when they act in a professional manner and therefore are deserving of said support.

You did not hear the OP refer to anyone by a derogatory name. Neither did anyone else, because those words were never uttered. You came to a discussion board intended for school nurses and read a post in which she vented about a particularly frustrating situation in which educational staff members failed to recognize or acknowledge the life-threatening nature of a student's condition. You then proceeded to chastize her for expressing said frustration to her fellow school nurses on the BB in a way that you do not like.

If the OP had indeed remarked out loud about a student's peepee pants, you wouldn't need to "have her job," it would already be long gone, and rightfully so. But that is not what happened, so such threats are out of place.

I am not aware of any participants here who rely on "comebacks." We post here to vent and share ideas, not rip each other, because we understand the frustrations, working conditions and situations that we all share. We also recognize that the use of edgy language and imagery here is a means of blowing off steam, and does not reflect any of our actual habits in professional practice.

Any and all are welcome on this board, students included. But when students or the uninitiated choose to criticize rather than ask questions, they run the risk of exposing their own lack of knowledge, experience and understanding. Your harsh commentary would tend to indicate that you have no better understanding of the initial situation than the staff members who complained about the inattention to wet britches and broken glasses as another student struggled to breathe. A lost opportunity to learn about cooperation, prioritization and emergency care.