C'Mon Now!

Cas1in72 · Feb 15, 2018

OMG you guys! I just had the weirdest, most disturbing thing happen last week. I have been wanting to post it here but been so busy I am just now getting to it! I had a spanish speaking Kinder come to me who had pooped his pants. Never seen him before, so I know this hasnt been a pattern at school. None the less, it IS February, and I stopped even attempting to help these kids change after Christmas break. I figure it is now time for these 5 and 6 year olds to have some responsibility for their bowel and bladder habits. Anyhoo, it took a good 15 minutes for me to get out of him that he had pooped and needed a change of clothes. I grabbed the extra clothes (we have a huge donation closet currently...but it is dwindling fast) and ushered him to the private bathroom in my health room. I handed him some flushable wipes as well, and went to close the door. (you know, for privacy, and smell purposes, and because its the socially acceptable thing to do when you are in public). He started FREAKING out, saying he was scared and putting himself between the door and wouldnt let me close it. oh did i mention that he already had his pants and underwear off and wast STEPPING I HIS POO! At this point I didnt have any other kids in the office, so instead of trying to reason with this kid, I just left my office and shut the door. I figured, ok well he didnt want the bathroom door shut so I will just give him some space. Nope. He tracked that poo all the way through my bathroom and all over my office, came to the office door naked as a jay bird and started crying and asking me to open the office door. Dear Lord child i am trying to give you some privacy!!! I literally had poo all over the floor, it was all over his feet and I was freaking out. Of course no one came to my rescue and I had to give up and give in and open the door and have him change. right then and there. In front of the entire office. Because he was covered in poo and I didnt know what else to do. I mean, C'MON!!!!!!!!!

I know this wasnt the best day for you. I am sorry. Thank you for sharing, I have tears in my eyes picturing these shenanigans!!!!!

WineRN · Feb 15, 2018

One of the teachers I'm close with is a new to the anti vax train, and I do everything I can to talk her back to the side of science when she asks me things. But we had a convo earlier this week about how her "pediatrician" (a chiropractor/naturopath combo) told her that legally I need to tell her to support vaccines since I'm a RN. So she wanted to know my "real thoughts".

I know she was disappointed when I told her that he was flat out lying and that I am VERY VERY VERY pro vaccine.

C'mon now

AutumnDraidean · Feb 15, 2018

I want to know how many times and ways I have to tell this one school that as an RN in this state I can not give a child a med without a doctor's order.

Again today, complete with a "humph!" as the principal left with the med.

this happened at 8:15 this morning and already my anxiety is at 11 or 12.

Next I get a kid who is afebrile and only c/o malaise and a stuffy nose. Teacher wants him sent home so he doesn't spread his funk. Ok whatevs, I'm a sub, I don't care. But none of his contacts will answer the phone...He asks to go back to the classroom, mom calls me, apparently a sibling was sent home by the teacher and mom's mad because I didn't call her earlier...I didn't know... kid was sent home from the classroom. They had to send him home on the bus.

I have to go back there tomorrow...hold me!!

Amethya · Feb 16, 2018

I had a student come in who is a FF, when in trouble at either home or in school. He came with the most dramatic clutching is L eye and doing that whole Peter Griffin pain sound, and I can see his face he's exaggerating.

I ask him in the sweetest voice, "What's wrong pumpkin?" He looks at me like a wounded warrior that just came from the most horrible war ever and gives me this riveting tale of how he got injured. "I was in class, and I tripped and fell on a pencil. It hurt so much, but I didn't cry." I look at him and ask him, "You fell on a pencil? Where did you fall on the pencil?" He points on his eye, and does the dramatic clutching. "My eyeballs." I do worry, because what if this is true? I call his teacher, and she tells me he didn't fall or anything, didn't see anything like that. I ask him and he said, I did! She just didn't see me! So I try to check his eye, and he won't let me. " Noooo it hurts!" I finally do see his eye and.... it's completely normal. No injury or anything. I ask him again, how did you fall? Then he changes his story to that I was in the hallway and he slipped and fell on the water fountain. Basically put, his lying through his teeth. So I give him an ice pack to "fix him" up and call his mother.

I inform her what he told me, then how he's changing the story. There's no visible injury or anything that shows he fell on a pencil. Mom is totally on my side, telling me that he think that if he comes to me for anything, he gets to go home. We laugh about his silliness and I hand the phone to talk to him and he goes on this whole thing on how his eye hurts and it's bleeding and he flew into the air when he fell and hit the pencil. I hear mother trying not to laugh and told him to go to class and to stop bothering me. I hung up and I sat him down. I told him to stop clutching his eye and look at me normally, that he can. He didn't want to, until I told him, "The jig is up my friend, I know you are fine." and then he miraculously can see!

I told him that he's fine to visit me when he's actually hurt or sick, and he won't go home unless he's actually hurt or sick, so if he keeps this up, I won't believe him next time. I gave him the story of the boy who cried wolf and he said he understood and wouldn't do it again.

C'MON NOW!

nmr79 · Feb 16, 2018

I have an anti-vax facebook friend who is a healthcare professional handing out religious exemption forms. Come. On. Now.

Yuck!! I had to block a friend who I went to nursing school with for the same kind of nonsense.

OyWithThePoodles, RN · Feb 16, 2018

Yuck!! I had to block a friend who I went to nursing school with for the same kind of nonsense.

I want so bad to block her, but it's like a train wreck. I can't look away.

ruby_jane, BSN, RN · Feb 16, 2018

I have to go back there tomorrow...hold me!!

It's FRIYAY!!! Hope today is better.

Amethya · Feb 16, 2018

I want so bad to block her, but it's like a train wreck. I can't look away.

Here in Texas we do inform parents of exemptions but some of them in my school don't want to waste the money or time, so they just do the vaccines.

pellykate, ASN · Feb 16, 2018

Student comes to clinic with 45 minutes left in the day saying her sore throat is worse and looks all sad and wilted. I tell her go get your backpack and just wait for the bus in here with me. She comes back, plops down and proceeds to talk for the next thirty minutes STRAIGHT, so lively and animated, telling me scene by scene the plot of some crazy movie she saw. C'mon now! Fool me once, kid...

AutumnDraidean · Feb 16, 2018

It's FRIYAY!!! Hope today is better.

Well, in some ways it was better but I had a bump & bruise brigade and a questionable head bump thanks to the "Olympics" they were holding. And a win. They wanted a letter because a whole class had been exposed to strep/scarlet fever. I found one on my state's department of health website and had it e-mailed to the school secretary to be prettied up and approved in under 5 minutes! (The full time school nurse is out on long term medical leave, there was NO ducking this request as a sub)

Eleven011 · Feb 20, 2018

Mom comes in at the beginning of school year and fills out the paperwork for her kids to have MOTRIN liquid for headaches and leaves me a full bottle. Great! Last week i give a kid the last dose. I call and leave her a voicemail and also send the empty bottle home with child. Today child brings me a refill - TYLENOL liquid. They are not interchangeable people!!! :banghead:

NutmeggeRN, BSN · Feb 21, 2018

Yuck!! I had to block a friend who I went to nursing school with for the same kind of nonsense.

I have come very close to doing that. Now it seems like she just throws crap up on FB and now i just engage in the conversaton.