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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20 hours ago, k1p1ssk said:

Summer. Cannot. Come. Soon. Enough.

Amen to this. 

I will say the warm weather has brought in a bunch of my regular friends who fall at recess, eyes swell with pollen and outdoor PE injuries which has been a welcome distraction from my COVID detective life.

We have a parent group that banded together a few months ago and refuse to report why their children are missing school because they are trying to lower our district COVID numbers.  Unfortunately for them, they don't realize that most kids still come to me and start the conversation "Mom said not to tell you but...me and dad had COVID" 

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1 hour ago, WineRN said:

Amen to this. 

I will say the warm weather has brought in a bunch of my regular friends who fall at recess, eyes swell with pollen and outdoor PE injuries which has been a welcome distraction from my COVID detective life.

 

PE and recess injuries are picking up for us too! LOL 

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2 hours ago, WineRN said:

Amen to this. 

I will say the warm weather has brought in a bunch of my regular friends who fall at recess, eyes swell with pollen and outdoor PE injuries which has been a welcome distraction from my COVID detective life.

Agreed! Called our first ambulance a couple weeks ago for a nice gash to the scalp.  Felt like I was living in 2019 for a few seconds there.

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I sent a kid to the ED for the first time two weeks ago for a recess injury, too! Dislocated her patella playing basketball. I went in to support her leg and could feel it on the outside of her knee. It was super weird looking and feeling. It kinda drifted back into place between school and radiology, but Mom said the ortho told her everything was so stretched out they could tell it had been dislocated for sure. 

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I never thought I'd get so excited about a pencil jab as I did today!

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63 nonsense visits, 4 legit visits, a dozen meds, 1 hour and 40 minutes of contact tracing and phone calls, and one 9pm email from a teacher who "forgot" to include the students sitting by my positive case. Is it Summer yet?!

Today's winner is the parent that insisted the doctor told her that her close contact quarantined kiddo could return to school today as long as he doesn't have a fever...exposure was Sunday?‍♀️ When I asked her to send me the doctor's note, she refused, because we all know that no actual doctor would say that. C'Mon Now!

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8 hours ago, BeckyESRN said:

63 nonsense visits, 4 legit visits, a dozen meds, 1 hour and 40 minutes of contact tracing and phone calls, and one 9pm email from a teacher who "forgot" to include the students sitting by my positive case. Is it Summer yet?!

Today's winner is the parent that insisted the doctor told her that her close contact quarantined kiddo could return to school today as long as he doesn't have a fever...exposure was Sunday?‍♀️ When I asked her to send me the doctor's note, she refused, because we all know that no actual doctor would say that. C'Mon Now!

Holy cow that is a busy office!  Nice work.

Mine today was the teacher who insisted I had to come pick a HS student up personally in class because they were LIGHTHEADED, and IT'S NOT SAFE to send them with an aide, and they need me RIGHT AWAY.   Also, she was annoyed when I insisted on knowing the student's name.

When I finally found a secretary to sit with the other kids in my office and arrived at the classroom, I found that she had put the kid outdoors, alone and unsupervised (our buildings are kinda like strip malls, there are no interior corridors and each room opens to the outdoors).  It was 90+ degrees today.

I guess...she thought they might be contagious, so despite their dire condition she thought it'd be better to cut one loose in order for the others to survive?

Luckily the student was not sick.  In fact they were strolling around casually, using their cell phone. When asked, the student briskly walked with me to my office probably 200 yards away.  C'mon now!

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I am adding to my resume the following: Mask Tsarina, hand hygiene police, soap dispenser repair person, hand sanitizer/clorox wipe refiller, trash bag dispenser, toilet watcher, and vaccine finder. I did not choose any of these jobs, but the staff at my school seems to think these are what I'm in the building for. They must seriously think I do nothing all day but sit in my office, waiting for something to do. 

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A gem .. it had me ??

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Contact tracing two kids and two athletic teams, thrown in an EMS transport for ? drug ingestion w  very atypical neuro signs, and then toileting (standing in the bathroom, no personal given) because her para is not an LNA...and parents who LET THEIR KIDS run all over town flapping when, "Guess what? They are a close contact"  and numbers are going up, masks are coming off, restaurant seating is opening up....I'm so tired.

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8 minutes ago, NutmeggeRN said:

Contact tracing two kids and two athletic teams, thrown in an EMS transport for ? drug ingestion w  very atypical neuro signs, and then toileting (standing in the bathroom, no personal given) because her para is not an LNA...and parents who LET THEIR KIDS run all over town flapping when, "Guess what? They are a close contact"  and numbers are going up, masks are coming off, restaurant seating is opening up....I'm so tired.

We had a family this week - parent tested positive and to separate is camping in the back yard. Other parent assumed this meant no one else in the house is a close contact and had kid in a hockey tournament that weekend. And kid tested positive 2 days later and hangs out regularly with like 4 other families that are at school. So...

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41 minutes ago, JenTheSchoolRN said:

We had a family this week - parent tested positive and to separate is camping in the back yard. Other parent assumed this meant no one else in the house is a close contact and had kid in a hockey tournament that weekend. And kid tested positive 2 days later and hangs out regularly with like 4 other families that are at school. So...

We had a parent send her close contact kid to school the next day. She insisted he wasn't a close contact because it wasn't a school activity, so "it's illegal" for us to exclude him. She was also mad that we knew he was a close contact because she wasn't going to tell the school. ?

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