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 School nursing.
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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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

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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 ?

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Specializes in School health, Maternal-Newborn.

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! 

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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.

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Specializes in Peds, MS, DIDD, Corrections, HH, LTC, School Nurse.

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???

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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.  

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Specializes in Peds, MS, DIDD, Corrections, HH, LTC, School Nurse.
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!

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Specializes in School health, Maternal-Newborn.
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. 

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Specializes in kids.
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!

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Specializes in retired LTC.

Seconding that last post!

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