Cell Phones

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Over the last few years, I have had kids with fractures, asthma attacks, etc. Invariably, the kid will have a cell phone in their regular or athletic locker. That is ALL the parent worries about when they come to get them. I have a clinic full and I am chasing a cell phone down. Really, would it kill you to leave the phone and take care of your kid?????

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Specializes in Community Health/School Nursing.

If they have an iphone tell them to use the app "find my phone" and they can go hunt it down themselves. It's not your problem...the sick/injured kids are your problem. Some parents amaze me. I work in an elementary school so cell phones are not that big of an issue right now.

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.

why are you chasing down a cell phone? isn't there ancillary personnel to do this task / get the student's other personal effects from their locker?

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Specializes in ED, School Nurse.

I agree! I would be sending someone else to find that phone/retrieve the student's belongings. I have called teachers to have them send student belongings with another student or ed tech to my office, but in an emergency that wouldn't be happening.

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