C'Mon Now!

BeckyESRN · Apr 16, 2021

Has anyone else noticed the hashtags that were added to this topic?

# school kids is fine, but # bad kids is not okay. I don't think any of us would ever refer to our kids as "bad". Bad behavior, sure; bad choice, absolutely: bad kids, nope AllNurse's Admin could maybe take that down

BrisketRN, BSN, RN · Apr 16, 2021

11 minutes ago, BeckyESRN said:

Has anyone else noticed the hashtags that were added to this topic?

# school kids is fine, but # bad kids is not okay. I don't think any of us would ever refer to our kids as "bad". Bad behavior, sure; bad choice, absolutely: bad kids, nope AllNurse's Admin could maybe take that down

Very bizarre. I'm sure we've said those two words in the same sentence but not next to each other. @Joe V can you help? We already get enough outsiders telling us we're evil from time to time ?

AutumnDraidean · Apr 16, 2021

Why do they send them to school if they’re feeling crappy from the vaccine? At a HS, 16 and up getting vaxed, then going to school feeling like crud, I have to send them home if they have any one of a distressingly large list of symptoms. They have to be covid tested if they’re on their first vax...

guardian answers phone “now what?”
why?

So sick of the mixed messages the public is getting while schools are still following the strictest of rules for symptoms and exposure...and it’s coming into allergy season!

BrisketRN, BSN, RN · Apr 16, 2021

1 hour ago, AutumnDraidean said:

Why do they send them to school if they’re feeling crappy from the vaccine? At a HS, 16 and up getting vaxed, then going to school feeling like crud, I have to send them home if they have any one of a distressingly large list of symptoms. They have to be covid tested if they’re on their first vax...

guardian answers phone “now what?”
why?

So sick of the mixed messages the public is getting while schools are still following the strictest of rules for symptoms and exposure...and it’s coming into allergy season!

Can you not follow the CDC post-vaccination considerations? We still send home but no COVID test if symptoms are in line with expected vaccine reaction and resolve within 48 hours of receiving the vaccine.

Feral.Cat.Herder, RN · Apr 16, 2021

Contact tracing and calling parents is a nightmare when your clinic still uses the prehistoric phones... You know dial 9, wait for pause, dial 9 wait for dial tone, dial # (as long as it isn't long distance, then you have to wait to use the secretary's phone AND since 99.9% of the population have cell phones and keep the same # when they move..... most calls are LD). C'mon now..... can we not update our phone systems to correspond with the technology of today???

AdobeRN · Apr 16, 2021

2 minutes ago, Feral.Cat.Herder said:

Contact tracing and calling parents is a nightmare when your clinic still uses the prehistoric phones... You know dial 9, wait for pause, dial 9 wait for dial tone, dial # (as long as it isn't long distance, then you have to wait to use the secretary's phone AND since 99.9% of the population have cell phones and keep the same # when they move..... most calls are LD). C'mon now..... can we not update our phone systems to correspond with the technology of today???

My clinic phone, all the phones in front office and our conference room (a total of 6 phones) were the only ones with the capability to call long distance for the longest time. I was so happy when the technology was updated and teachers could finally call from their own classrooms - it was such a pain when they would come to my office to use my phone, which meant they were sitting at my desk, using my computer, my pens, paper etc etc etc.

Feral.Cat.Herder, RN · Apr 16, 2021

2 minutes ago, AdobeRN said:

My clinic phone, all the phones in front office and our conference room (a total of 6 phones) were the only ones with the capability to call long distance for the longest time. I was so happy when the technology was updated and teachers could finally call from their own classrooms - it was such a pain when they would come to my office to use my phone, which meant they were sitting at my desk, using my computer, my pens, paper etc etc etc.

Oh that would have gotten on my nerves quick!

AutumnDraidean · Apr 17, 2021

20 hours ago, BrisketRN said:

Can you not follow the CDC post-vaccination considerations? We still send home but no COVID test if symptoms are in line with expected vaccine reaction and resolve within 48 hours of receiving the vaccine.

As a sub I’m not making those decisions at this school. The nurse I’m subbing for is on maternity leave, we can ask her questions as well as the two other nurses the serve the elementary schools. They also have a designated staff member that is tracking and such for the entire district. He’s working closely with the county health department. It’s both helpful and not. Students being sent home wait in his office as well. I don’t have a positive impression of this person at the moment. Although that’s simply because he was on some kind of webinar and didn’t speak to me when I walked in multiple times. If/when I talk to parents I suggest they add an antihistamine as recommended by their doctor to reduce allergy symptoms when they’re at fault.

My MIL, status post vaccines in February got a false positive (pre procedure) that was negative 3 days later so I’m just dubious about everything right now.

NutmeggeRN, BSN · Apr 18, 2021

On 4/16/2021 at 9:17 AM, BrisketRN said:

Very bizarre. I'm sure we've said those two words in the same sentence but not next to each other. @Joe V can you help? We already get enough outsiders telling us we're evil from time to time ?

And we are by far, the nicest group on this forum!

amoLucia · Apr 18, 2021

Seconding that last post!

CampyCamp, RN · Apr 19, 2021

On 4/12/2021 at 12:37 PM, Cas1in72 said:

In 26 years of nursing I have never been told off, cussed at, disrespected more than this year. We just came back from Spring Break ( have been in school since Aug) I cried in my car before I walked in. Pretty sure this will be my last year of nursing at all.

Im sorry this is where we are right now, no words to describe it...

Hugs. I'm so glad that I happened to leave school last November for my mom's hospice care.

However, last Spring, as cases rose in the hospital where I am hired for perdiem *pediatrics*, I started working in the short staffed adult ICU. I was an ICU nurse for 8 years and we did a lot of withdrawal and hepatic encephalopathy in my unit and I've NEVER been treated as badly as many times as I have in the last year by patients or family phone calls.

I just want to "do my duty" and get to the other side of this pandemic, give the new grads the best start they can get despite them being cut off orientation prematurely, and never return.

Cas1in72 · Apr 19, 2021

36 minutes ago, CampyCamp said:

Hugs. I'm so glad that I happened to leave school last November for my mom's hospice care.

However, last Spring, as cases rose in the hospital where I am hired for perdiem *pediatrics*, I started working in the short staffed adult ICU. I was an ICU nurse for 8 years and we did a lot of withdrawal and hepatic encephalopathy in my unit and I've NEVER been treated as badly as many times as I have in the last year by patients or family phone calls.

I just want to "do my duty" and get to the other side of this pandemic, give the new grads the best start they can get despite them being cut off orientation prematurely, and never return.

I am so sorry! I really can not imagine the lasting impact Covid is going to have on those of us in healthcare. I put in my notice on Friday. I am heartbroken, but at the same time, I feel like I can breathe. I am going back to school to finish my graduate degree in History. It is time I retire from nursing.