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.

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21 minutes ago, Flare said:

I had one teacher that was trying to plead her case to me why i shouldn't leave. She didn't have much to say when i reminded her that i am entitled to take a lunch.

Ask her to cover your lunch during her lunch!!! BWAHAHA!!!!??

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Specializes in pediatrics, school nursing.

Saturday afternoon, at my boarding school weekend job, a girl came in stating that she sneezed and got a bloody nose and blood came out of her eyes. Her face was completely clean, AND she had waited over an hour to come the health center.

A) It was blood splatter from your sneeze, not from your eyes

B) literally the only things that could possibly cause that would be rare genetic conditions that would have been discovered long before now or Ebola.

I should have told her she had ebola.

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1 hour ago, k1p1ssk said:

I should have told her she had ebola.

That made me think of the old humor blog post "my boyfriend doesn't have ebola. Probably" It had the BEST pain scale that the author made up. I think bleeding from the eyes was one of the worst levels.

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3 minutes ago, CampyCamp said:

That made me think of the old humor blog post "my boyfriend doesn't have ebola. Probably" It had the BEST pain scale that the author made up. I think bleeding from the eyes was one of the worst levels.

I just looked this up...omg...the pain scale. How I wish I could post that in my office.

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Specializes in med-surg, psych, ER, school nurse-CRNP.

Back aeons ago, when I was a school nurse, they tried to tell me that being a 'Title I Aide' was part of my job description. I was expected to go into classrooms with children who were slow to read and help them with their reading. I was not allowed to bring them out with me so as to, you know, NOT DISRUPT THE CLASS and also be in my office where they didn't have to page me every time a kiddo needed me to do nursey stuff.

It was a nightmare and died a quick death when I just outright refused to do it anymore. But it absolutely took me threatening to leave. I couldn't get them to back me up to the blooming parents when their kids were sick enough to go home, and parents were balking about coming to pick them up. My nursing degree didn't qualify me to make that decision. But I was qualified to teach reading.

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It's pajama day (why?!). I was sent six 1st graders for temp checks because they felt/looked hot...after recess...in 80 degree weather...wearing one piece, hooded, fleece pajamas. Ya think?!

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.

it took me until i was driving home to realize why my day was nutso yesterday - i forgot the HS had off for Rosh Hashanah. Cue the needy / jealous siblings trying to get sent home.

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23 hours ago, CampyCamp said:

That made me think of the old humor blog post "my boyfriend doesn't have ebola. Probably" It had the BEST pain scale that the author made up. I think bleeding from the eyes was one of the worst levels.

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/02/boyfriend-doesnt-have-ebola-probably.html

Awesome blog.

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Kid comes from PE with a shabbily wrapped gauze around his knee. Turns out he fell and had torn a scab from a previous abrasion. "Coach already put some alcohol on it but wants you to look at it."

Me: Like, he wiped it with an alcohol pad??

Kid: No, he has a big bottle of it. But, he only put the alcohol on it because he couldn't find his hydrogen peroxide.

I.JUST.CAN'T!!!!

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Specializes in school nursing.
3 hours ago, EnoughWithTheIce said:

Kid comes from PE with a shabbily wrapped gauze around his knee. Turns out he fell and had torn a scab from a previous abrasion. "Coach already put some alcohol on it but wants you to look at it."

Me: Like, he wiped it with an alcohol pad??

Kid: No, he has a big bottle of it. But, he only put the alcohol on it because he couldn't find his hydrogen peroxide.

I.JUST.CAN'T!!!!

I have kids ask me for alcohol ALL THE TIME. It's crazy.

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On 9/30/2019 at 12:17 PM, BeckyESRN said:

It's pajama day (why?!). I was sent six 1st graders for temp checks because they felt/looked hot...after recess...in 80 degree weather...wearing one piece, hooded, fleece pajamas. Ya think?!

This happened to me last week. It was in the high 90s and the students were dropping like flies! Hopefully in the future they rethink having pajama. AZ heat and one piece pajamas do not mix. ?

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We have a new admin assistant on one of my campuses. She's nice, but she's a "laugher". She laughs with EVERYTHING she says. Even if it's not a funny thing (like simply asking a question about the printer, for example). It's really kind of annoying. BUT. If I have to hear "oh yay! You're here! We've had a lot of visitors looking for you lately! I don't know how you get anything done!" every time I walk onto this campus, I'm might start throwing peppermints at her.

Welcome to my world, Carole. ?

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