C'Mon Now!

MendyT · Oct 2, 2018

Parent who wants the name of every adult on the playground and a copy of the incident report for her daughter's skinned knee!!

KeeperOfTheIceRN, ADN · Oct 2, 2018

Had an office helper bust into my office while I'm chatting with a student about their knee that has been hurting for 2 days now:

OH: What did he say was hurting?

Student and I: *look at each other confused; student unsure if he should keep talking or not*

Student: ...its my knee...

OH: oh! Well I heard you mention growing pains and I wanted to let you know that when my son was younger he had [insert some rare disorder] and I was worried he was complaining about his ankle because that's where it affects the body...

Student and I: *look at each other confused*

OH: just wanted to let y'all know that in case you think that might be what it is....

Student: *looking at me for help* so is there anything you can suggest that would help??

Gave student an icepack and the office helper leaves my office and I'm sitting here like what the focalin just happened?! I go talk to my admin assistant about it because it was the strangest thing and apparently the office helper saw me and decided we were talking bad about her. She comes in my office twice to say "I was just worried about the student and I don't appreciate y'all talking about me. You should have just come to me if I was out of line!" :eek:

Whaaaaa?! You bust into my office while I have a kiddo in here, violating allllll kinds of privacy, and you start throwing around a rare disease that I'm not even qualified to diagnose (ya know...cuz I'm not a doctor) but I'm the one who is out of line?? Holy frijoles Batman!

I explain privacy and how we can't just go throwing around diagnoses like confetti and how I need the students to know that my office is a safe place where things will be confidential...blahblahblah

I don't think she got it and I apologized for appearing as if we were gossiping about her but...

C'mon now.....

kunaspud · Oct 2, 2018

Ran an immunization report and accidentally sent out exclusion notices to every student in my school, (925). If I could get parental responses like that when I really need them, I would be at 100% compliance in about 30 seconds.

It felt like the only parents that didn't call or email were the ones from which I actually needed immunization records.

k1p1ssk, BSN, RN · Oct 3, 2018

I thought about submitting my "I have a hole in my sock" from yesterday, but i'm glad I didn't. Today's winner is "My mouth feels awkward". After digging, it turns out she didn't like the flavor combination of the bubble-gum fluoride she did 2 hours ago and her grape-juice and potato chip snack, which clearly needs to be addressed, by the nurse, ASAP.

She rinsed with water and was miraculously cured from Oral Awkwardness.

SaltineQueen · Oct 3, 2018

Parent who wants the name of every adult on the playground and a copy of the incident report for her daughter's skinned knee!!

You do incident reports for skinned knees?

Cattz, ADN · Oct 3, 2018

I thought about submitting my "I have a hole in my sock" from yesterday, but i'm glad I didn't. Today's winner is "My mouth feels awkward". After digging, it turns out she didn't like the flavor combination of the bubble-gum fluoride she did 2 hours ago and her grape-juice and potato chip snack, which clearly needs to be addressed, by the nurse, ASAP.
She rinsed with water and was miraculously cured from Oral Awkwardness.

WAAAAAAIT FOR IT- OD what is your answer for this kind of miraculous cure??!!

OldDude · Oct 3, 2018

WAAAAAAIT FOR IT- OD what is your answer for this kind of miraculous cure??!!

I can only quote Bobby Boucher from the movie "Waterboy," "Now that's what I call high quality H2O."

Amethya · Oct 4, 2018

Mine was yesterday and it was a doozy.

I basically was ready to leave for my lunch break when the 4th grade subsitute came to me and brought me this boy with a scared face, with looked like chocolate oreo smeared on his face.

I asked what's up and thought it would probably be his stomach hurts after eating said oreos, nah...

"He ate ink from a pen."

me: ummmm.... what?

Sub: He ate ink from a pen during lunch.

me: Why?

boy: I don't know.

me: What do you mean you don't know? Was it forced down your throat by your friends? No? Then how did it get to your mouth?

boy: I did it...

me: Then you can't say you didn't know because you did. But why?

boy: *Shurgs*

me: Okay, at least tell me this, and tell me the truth, did you do it on purpose?

boy:... on purpose.

me:.... *Trying not to laugh or yell why?????* Baby, you're 9 years old... why?

boy: I don't know.

me: *raises hands up in frustration*

I end up calling Poison Control, they said it's non-toxic, just water would be fine. I let mother know and letting him talk to her, mother blew up on him in Spanish, kid was crying. Once he calmed down, I sent him to the restroom to clean his face up (Was completely smeared with black ink) and he went to class.

BrisketRN, BSN, RN · Oct 4, 2018

Good laugh this morning.

Sick first grader: I just want to go home and watch Spongebob. Spongebob is my favorite show.

Me: Spongebob was my favorite as a kid too!

Sick first grader: Yeah but it was probably in black-and-white back then.

I'm 25.

OyWithThePoodles, RN · Oct 5, 2018

Good laugh this morning.
Sick first grader: I just want to go home and watch Spongebob. Spongebob is my favorite show.
Me: Spongebob was my favorite as a kid too!
Sick first grader: Yeah but it was probably in black-and-white back then.
I'm 25.

This gave me a good little laugh.

stephrooth · Oct 5, 2018

Good laugh this morning.
Sick first grader: I just want to go home and watch Spongebob. Spongebob is my favorite show.
Me: Spongebob was my favorite as a kid too!
Sick first grader: Yeah but it was probably in black-and-white back then.
I'm 25.

Oh you are so young, not trying to offend you or anything. But I'm just thinking as a young nurse you should be working at a hospital.

Amethya · Oct 5, 2018

This gave me a good little laugh.

The Kids in my school tell me I'm old too... I'm 27