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.

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.

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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. 

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Specializes in pediatrics, school nursing.

A teacher, who has worked in our school for at least 15 years, is working the Summer school program this year. She texted me this morning to let me know a student’s mother dropped off some paperwork for me. She says “I’m going to keep it in my mailbox for safe keeping, unless you want me to put it somewhere else!” So I text back for her to just pop it in my mailbox, to which she responds “Hilarious, I didn't even know you had a mailbox”

Really?? Why wouldn’t I have a mailbox?? 

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Specializes in School Nursing.

How have we forgotten about this thread!?

 

I've had 3 Kinderoos take their socks and shoes off while using restroom since yesterday.  2 took off their shirts!   New technique?

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.
17 hours ago, LikeTheDeadSea said:

How have we forgotten about this thread!?

 

I think it's because this pandemic has shifted everything to the level of c'mon now!!

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Specializes in kids.

The other one that needs to be resurrected is the about Pink on Wednesdays....I need to find it and pull it up to get us thru the last stretch of the year

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Had a kiddo come to the front office to get a bandaid for a teacher. Came back a bit later saying it wasn't bit enough and that maybe the nurse should come. I grabbed a few things and headed to the opposite side of campus. Found the teacher on the floor holding together the edges of a deep 2 inch laceration on a kiddo's leg, pool of blood on the floor. Yup, needed a bigger bandaid! Sent him out to probably get stitched. 

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Specializes in School Nursing, Ambulatory Care, etc..
14 minutes ago, kunaspud said:

Had a kiddo come to the front office to get a bandaid for a teacher. Came back a bit later saying it wasn't bit enough and that maybe the nurse should come. I grabbed a few things and headed to the opposite side of campus. Found the teacher on the floor holding together the edges of a deep 2 inch laceration on a kiddo's leg, pool of blood on the floor. Yup, needed a bigger bandaid! Sent him out to probably get stitched. 

Oh, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!  Well, kuddos to the teacher for trying to manage it in the classroom and not send "every little thing" to the nurse. ?

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PJ Day over here today - I've had TWO kids wearing onesies get the zippers stuck at the bottom of the zipper after having used the bathrooms.  Both were only wearing underpants under the onesies!

Miracles performed today: 2 zipper fixes.

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8 hours ago, BunnyBunnyBSNRN said:

Oh, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!  Well, kuddos to the teacher for trying to manage it in the classroom and not send "every little thing" to the nurse. ?

I guess we need to be more careful about what we wish for!!!

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I been getting so many non-emergent things lately and it's driving my nurses and I bananas. 

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It finally happened! A kiddo walked in a plopped his bloody tooth right on my desk? C'Mon Now!

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