How I wish we could bottle up the magic of "the week before Christmas Break", or "Celebration Day", or "Staff vs. Student Basketball Game Day" and spread it through the air ducts daily, all year.
It seems kiddos are amazingly not sick on these days. It's a miracle actually.
Seriously, on the day of our staff/student basketball game-in which I was a cheerleader-I saw kids hit and slide across that gym floor and jump up and carry on like nothing happened. On a regular day they would've claimed their legs were broken and their eyeball was falling out. BUT NOT TODAY.
Yesterday I had to call the ambulance for a kid-to-kid collision on the playground ending in one of them having LOC and a facial lac and broken nose that has required two surgeries. Today, I saw 62 kids (26 scheduled med visits).
Whatever this "magic" is, I would only bottle it if I could then throw the bottle into the ocean so it goes far, far away!
3.5 work days/5.5 real days until Christmas break!
Specializes in Cardiology, School Nursing, General.
Today is a Christmas miracle. It is now 9:12 am... and NOT ONE CHILD HAS POPPED IN, only to give me gifts, but NOT ONE FOR ANYTHING! It's like... no one is actually sick! Like no one is feeling like they have an headache and dying of it!
Oooo, I bet that is heaven! Just thinking about those school days, the games, the freeness, the FUN! I wouldn't want to go to the nurse either. Sadly, on a regular day I know I could probably not do what you do, back in nursing school I had one rotation of a "school nurse clinical" the highlight of my day was a boy who tied his two shoe laces together and couldn't get them loose, and another who the nurse says gets a stomach ache magically every gym period. I can imagine that there are a lot of different quirky things to deal with alongside nursing in that setting. BUT, this is why our profession is so unique, there are so many aspects to it.
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Holy crow!!!