C'Mon Now!

KeeperOfTheIceRN, ADN · May 18, 2017

Y'all. Y'ALL. I was just informed by my admin assistant of a situation that occurred yesterday while I was not on campus. Here's what went down:

Kid wipes out pretty hard on the soccer field and is covered head to toe in dirt, complaining of his knee hurting. Student has a history of recent knee injury. My admin assistant is my back up when I'm not on campus (clearly she can only do so much given she's not a nurse or even CNA), but she handled this in the best way she could, I felt. There was a large group of kids surrounding the student. She successfully cleared them out and was finally able to talk to the student. She got the student taken care of and situated in the office. Then a teacher comes in. Y'all. I can't even wrap my brain around what happens next. This teacher, bless her heart, was trying to help but was actually making matters worse. Student already had ice on their knee and parent had already been contacted by my admin assistant. Situation was actually under control. No more interventions needed.

This teacher just couldn't NOT help. Even after being told multiple times that my admin assistant had it all under control. My admin assistant gave the student some wet paper towels to wipe their face with and a cup of water to help them cool down. Next thing my admin assistant knows, the teacher comes OUT OF MY OFFICE (mind you, I'm not on campus) with my container of BLEACH WIPES and says to the student "Here! Use some of these. I bet they will get all of that dirt off of you really good!!" :eek: Now, I've never been in a situation with such blatant stupidity, but I feel my admin assistant handled it better than I would have! She simply, but firmly, said "No!!! He can't use those, they're BLEACH wipes!! That's why the nurse is the only one with them in their office!!" Y'all. The teacher was dumfounded. Like, honestly can't understand how she was supposed to know they were bleach (never mind the GIANT LETTERS ON THE TOP THAT SAY "BLEACH WIPES. NO STUDENTS")!!! She tells the admin assistant "Oh. Oh I thought they were just regular Clorox wipes." :wideyed: WHAAAAA?!?!?! At this point I would have had to throat punch her had it been me in this situation. But my admin assistant, being the more controlled one apparently, calmly said "Clorox wipes aren't for use on skin either....." to which the teacher replies "Oh. Well, I guess I'll just go back to my room now...."

I owe my admin assistant lunch for handling this so well. Its quite possible I would have been charged with assault for smacking this lady for trying to give a kid a bleach wipe to wipe their face off with!!! C'MON NOW!!!!

ruby_jane, BSN, RN · May 18, 2017

moreoreo said:
I mentioned this in another thread...
They call me outside every day and I don't know how this was so mishandled. Apparently the student was asking the supervisor to stop talking. The adult should have been the calmest person in the situation.
I feel for her because she must have been terrified but c'mon now

Oy vay. It is scary because the kid can barely breathe for a good minute, and if you don't know what you're seeing you'll start looking for choking or frantically searching your mind to remember if the kid has asthma... Look - nobody died and you learned a valuable lesson. You learned that people have no walkie etiquette. That's something an administrator can fix. Next year. Hang in there!

ruby_jane, BSN, RN · May 18, 2017

C.MackeyRN said:
Y'all. Y'ALL.
I owe my admin assistant lunch for handling this so well. Its quite possible I would have been charged with assault for smacking this lady for trying to give a kid a bleach wipe to wipe their face off with!!! C'MON NOW!!!!

:roflmao:

OyWithThePoodles, RN · May 18, 2017

It's field day. Nuff said.

I've had several visits and one major head lac. Come on 2:25.

OyWithThePoodles, RN · May 18, 2017

I feel if you are going to have field day outside when it is 85 degrees, you should at least provide each student with a water. One (trust-worthy) student told him that they were refusing to give out waters because they would run out. These kids are dropping like flies, and simply because they are hot and need water. Grrr.

cooties_are_real · May 18, 2017

So, little snowflake has lost his phone in all his dramatics this morning and you want to just jump on the "well, that's just more things that have been stolen from him." Wait have you checked the front office to see if it had been turned in? No. C'Mon, now!!!!

:yawn:

SchoolNurseTXstyle · May 18, 2017

"I now hear in the other language that the student was getting up but still couldn't breathe"

I am pretty sure if they were getting up and walking, they were breathing. Now, I am no expert though..............

moreoreo · May 18, 2017

ruby_jane said:
Oy vay. It is scary because the kid can barely breathe for a good minute, and if you don't know what you're seeing you'll start looking for choking or frantically searching your mind to remember if the kid has asthma... Look - nobody died and you learned a valuable lesson. You learned that people have no walkie etiquette. That's something an administrator can fix. Next year. Hang in there!

You're right. That reminds me of what a coworker used to say to me at the hospital--"IF NO ONE DIED, IT WAS A GOOD DAY." And I was honestly so relieved just to see that nothing was broken. Today, I went out with the wheelchair and was so happy to see two bloody knees that I raved to the student all the way into the health office that I would fix them soooo fast and sooo well!

SchoolNurseTXstyle said:
"I now hear in the other language that the student was getting up but still couldn't breathe"
I am pretty sure if they were getting up and walking, they were breathing. Now, I am no expert though..............

The yelling on the walkie was so panicked that my health aide who has years of health office experience and is way more even-keeled and level-headed than me (God bless her patient and enduring soul) imagined that a student had been decapitated. I was half calm as a cucumber because I could decipher what she was saying but also half ready to do CPR just because it sounded so emergent based on the yelling.

C.MackeyRN that is a crazy story! Eesh!

Reminds me of one of the other nurses in my district who said today that she handed off a student's medication for a field trip--an oral med--tablets not liquid--only to have to answer numerous questions about how to give it. "Umm, well, you open the bottle, and you take out one tablet"... Like, we are surrounded by such smart and educated people (I mean that sincerely) but occasionally you encounter situations where you have to wonder "how??"

WKShadowNP, DNP, APRN · May 21, 2017

kidzcare said:
Right?? Like you don't think a fractured spine MIGHT require some kind of easily visible stabilizer?

For Frank's sake. In 4th grade I wrenched my neck at school and had torticollis so bad I couldn't hold my head up. My friend said my neck was broken. At age 9 i was smart enough to know better.

WineRN · May 22, 2017

WKShadowRN said:
For Frank's sake .

:roflmao:

OyWithThePoodles, RN · May 23, 2017

GUYS!!! They have discontinued my chapstick!!! Avon Care Deeply Lip Balm is no more. The new stuff is crap and makes me tingly and swell, and not in a good way. Research shows the Avon Canada website still has it, but you have to have a Canadian address.

If any of you live in Canada, we could quickly become friends. Seriously.

They've been making this stuff for 30 years! And of course, one year after I start using it, they discontinue it. Amazon is sold out, looks like there are many other desperate people such as myself. Sadly I was willing to pay $60 for a 10 tube supply, but they sold out. C'mon Now!!!

GdBSN, RN · May 23, 2017

SullyRN said:
I'm proxied here at school. I'll have to check at home, thank you!

If you have Ebay on your phone, turn your wifi off so your phone is not connected to the school wifi. You then should be able to connect to Ebay using your data plan.