C'Mon Now!

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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.

Specializes in Occupational Health.

Student has been telling her teachers that she's having her appendix out Sunday. Teacher stands in my clinic, with the student, wanting me to call mom this very second to verify student is not scheduled for an appendectomy on Sunday. The student who is laughing and in no obvious pain or discomfort and swears they scheduled it so she wouldn't miss school. All while I'm looking the teacher dead in the eye, saying "appendectomies are an EMERGENCY surgery".

Teacher left saying "so, you'll call mom?" :banghead:

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1 hour ago, BluebellRN said:

Student has been telling her teachers that she's having her appendix out Sunday. Teacher stands in my clinic, with the student, wanting me to call mom this very second to verify student is not scheduled for an appendectomy on Sunday. The student who is laughing and in no obvious pain or discomfort and swears they scheduled it so she wouldn't miss school. All while I'm looking the teacher dead in the eye, saying "appendectomies are an EMERGENCY surgery".

Teacher left saying "so, you'll call mom?" :banghead:

Oy. And most scheduled surgeries aren't on Sunday.

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A student just came in asking for "medical tape" for her teacher. They are doing some sort of art project.

I wanted, WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BODY, to say that my office is not the art supply store, but I did not want to take my frustrations out on the poor child. So I gave her the thinnest, dinkiest roll of tape I had.

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1 hour ago, BluebellRN said:

Student has been telling her teachers that she's having her appendix out Sunday. Teacher stands in my clinic, with the student, wanting me to call mom this very second to verify student is not scheduled for an appendectomy on Sunday. The student who is laughing and in no obvious pain or discomfort and swears they scheduled it so she wouldn't miss school. All while I'm looking the teacher dead in the eye, saying "appendectomies are an EMERGENCY surgery".

Teacher left saying "so, you'll call mom?" :banghead:

I wanted to add that teachers will believe anything. I once had my accident report book laying open on my desk when I arrived one morning. I asked why. They told me that the kiddo who had barely fallen yesterday and walked around just fine had "broken their spine." The student told them that. And they believed them. EDUCATED PEOPLE BELIEVED THAT A STUDENT WAS WALKING AROUND WITH NO BRACE WITH A BROKEN SPINE. I had to indeed call mom to make sure the snowflake was really okay. Mom about lost her crap when she heard little darling was lying.

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I was asked to get gum out of a student's hair (not a nursing task). We don't have peanut butter, which is what I used that one time RJ Junior fell asleep with gum in her mouth.

SHE CAME TO SCHOOL THIS WAY. When I called, the parent said "just cut it out of her hair."

Fortunately our cafeteria has canola oil. That worked.

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32 minutes ago, OyWithThePoodles said:

I wanted to add that teachers will believe anything. I once had my accident report book laying open on my desk when I arrived one morning. I asked why. They told me that the kiddo who had barely fallen yesterday and walked around just fine had "broken their spine." The student told them that. And they believed them. EDUCATED PEOPLE BELIEVED THAT A STUDENT WAS WALKING AROUND WITH NO BRACE WITH A BROKEN SPINE. I had to indeed call mom to make sure the snowflake was really okay. Mom about lost her crap when she heard little darling was lying.

I had a MS kid tell his entire homeroom that he had measles. The teacher emailed me "Jack said he has measles. Should I send him to see you?" First off, no he doesn't have measles, and secondly if he did this would be an emergency not a nonchalant email.

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2 hours ago, BluebellRN said:

All while I'm looking the teacher dead in the eye, saying "appendectomies are an EMERGENCY surgery". 

Actually, there is something called an interval appendectomy where a patient can be treated medically and have the appendix removed a few days later, usually as an outpatient procedure. And there are hospitals that do elective cases on weekends- mine is looking to bulk up staffing to be able to do just that. We simply ran out of time Monday through Friday to meet demand.

Not saying that’s what’s going on with this situation, but is is a remote possibility.

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23 minutes ago, Rose_Queen said:

Actually, there is something called an interval appendectomy where a patient can be treated medically and have the appendix removed a few days later, usually as an outpatient procedure. And there are hospitals that do elective cases on weekends- mine is looking to bulk up staffing to be able to do just that. We simply ran out of time Monday through Friday to meet demand.

Not saying that’s what’s going on with this situation, but is is a remote possibility.

Hmm, I hadn't heard of those but nice to know they are a thing.

In this case, it wasn't the case. I did indeed call mom who confirmed the student is keeping her healthy appendix.

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Ok, y'all. I live in tick country. I've seen posts here and on other social media saying to put dawn dish soap on a cotton ball, rub it on the tick and it will magically just come off.

NO. I've done this twice and both times the tick does not come off and actually seems to dig in further. Am I doing something wrong? I mean it seems idiot proof. Cotton ball. Dish soap. Rub.

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7 minutes ago, OyWithThePoodles said:

Ok, y'all. I live in tick country. I've seen posts here and on other social media saying to put dawn dish soap on a cotton ball, rub it on the tick and it will magically just come off.

NO. I've done this twice and both times the tick does not come off and actually seems to dig in further. Am I doing something wrong? I mean it seems idiot proof. Cotton ball. Dish soap. Rub.

There are a bunch of methods out there. I personally clean it and use tweezers.

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1 minute ago, CanIcallmymom said:

There are a bunch of methods out there. I personally clean it and use tweezers.

That is what I do, and have no problems, but I kept seeing that with the dish soap method "the tick just lets go", so I gave it a try, well, two tries. The second time the tick did not come out and when I tried to remove with tweezers the head came off. That has never ever happened before. I'm convinced the dish soap rubbing made it dig deeper.

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1 minute ago, OyWithThePoodles said:

That is what I do, and have no problems, but I kept seeing that with the dish soap method "the tick just lets go", so I gave it a try, well, two tries. The second time the tick did not come out and when I tried to remove with tweezers the head came off. That has never ever happened before. I'm convinced the dish soap rubbing made it dig deeper.

It probably did! I'll have to keep that in mind so hopefully I don't have that same problem.

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