C'Mon Now!

[OyWithThePoodles]

Had a kid bring his wet, bloody tooth and plop it right on my desk.

C'mon now!

Or the kid that did running knee slide into my office.

C'mon now!

The ones old enough to cover their mouths but choose to cough right in your face instead.

All together: C'mon now!!

Some things just make me shake my head.

[Flare, ASN, BSN]

OK who bled in my bathroom and didn't think to mention it to me? I went to go use the bathroom and see little splatters of blood all around the sink and tile behind the sink. I don't know how long it's been there or who it's from. Ugh.

I feel ya. When the nosebleeders go in to wash up and end up leaving the bathroom looking like you need to call in the crime sceme technicians. Even better when a staff member goes in after them and comes out tsking like we are supposed to follow each and every kid in with a mop and bucket.

[EnoughWithTheIce]

Teacher has organized a secret Santa gift exchange for jr hi/hs students. They exchange SODA AND CANDY in large amounts. I just saw the first of I'm sure many that don't feel well after that. And he hadn't eaten breakfast at all, but the large soda and chocolate bar most certainly raised his blood sugar in a hurry!! (not a diabetic, just saying.) Ugh

Some days I feel like "THE SWEEPER." Always cleaning up after other people's bad decisions!

[kidzcare]

OK who bled in my bathroom and didn't think to mention it to me? I went to go use the bathroom and see little splatters of blood all around the sink and tile behind the sink. I don't know how long it's been there or who it's from. Ugh.

Ug. I once called a kid back to the health office after he cleaned up after a nosebleed. I don't even know how he got blood on every single thing. Floor, sink, cabinet, mirror, door handle. It was so gross!!!

[k1p1ssk, BSN, RN]

I've missed this particular thread the past 2 weeks...

I've been dying to tell you all about the 2nd grade GIRL who all of a sudden decided that she was too good for toilets and has been peeing IN THE WASTEBASKET in my bathroom...

C'MON NOW!!!

[MrNurse(x2), ADN]

We had a boy decide to pee on the toilet paper roll and another dig the urinal cake out of the urinal. Yup, school is back in session.

[BunnyBunnyBSNRN, ASN, BSN]

1 hour ago, k1p1ssk said:

I've missed this particular thread the past 2 weeks...

I've been dying to tell you all about the 2nd grade GIRL who all of a sudden decided that she was too good for toilets and has been peeing IN THE WASTEBASKET in my bathroom...

C'MON NOW!!!

?

[BrisketRN, BSN, RN]

Got an email this morning from a parent asking me to give their kids a specific cold medicine (expecting I just keep that on hand) and some cough drops because they ran out of cold medicine at home.

That's not how this works!

[BeckyESRN]

Had a kid bring me a box of cold medicine and tell me "Grandma said I need this at lunch time" it was Zarbee's NIGHT TIME cough and cold with melatonin. ?‍♀️

[BunnyBunnyBSNRN, ASN, BSN]

2 minutes ago, BeckyESRN said:

Had a kid bring me a box of cold medicine and tell me "Grandma said I need this at lunch time" it was Zarbee's NIGHT TIME cough and cold with melatonin. ?‍♀️

I say call home and get the verbal ok to give it.

Ok, not really, that was me just being snarky.

[EnoughWithTheIce]

Just now, BunnyBunnyBSNRN said:

I say call home and get the verbal ok to give it.

Ok, not really, that was me just being snarky.

But then, you can actually have a teacher send you a kid that can't stay awake in class and it be an actual valid excuse. ?

[BunnyBunnyBSNRN, ASN, BSN]

Just now, EnoughWithTheIce said:

But then, you can actually have a teacher send you a kid that can't stay awake in class and it be an actual valid excuse. ?

And then you can call grandma to come pick him up!

[k1p1ssk, BSN, RN]

18 hours ago, BeckyESRN said:

Had a kid bring me a box of cold medicine and tell me "Grandma said I need this at lunch time" it was Zarbee's NIGHT TIME cough and cold with melatonin. ?‍♀️

Ahh!! Right before Holiday Break a teacher caught a 1st grader self-administering melatonin!! Stole it from her Grandma's bathroom... Lock up your meds, people!!!

We have a small faction of first-grade girls who are obsessed with medicine and getting sick and coming to the nurse's office since one of them had a traumatic finger injury requiring surgery at the beginning of the year. No amount of education is helping the situation and they are getting sophisticated with their planning... waiting until their classroom teacher leaves the lunchroom to ask to come see me, but staggering it so they aren't all coming at once, for example... but if I see one of them, all 4 of them come with the same story within 2 hours...