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, ortho, trauma.

I am a sucker for a pun!! bonus points!!!

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Specializes in School Nursing.

I mentioned this in another thread...

But during a a 30 student per hour recess, as I was tending to a student who I had just wheelchaired into the health office with a red knee cap, I hear a bunch of ruckus on the walkie--one recess supervisor telling the head supervisor in another language (that I luckily speak) that there was an emergency at the park. I hear a lot of yelling. So I pick it up and ask, "this is the nurse, should I come to the playground?" and amongst a lot of other ruckus (I hear in the other language, "he fell off the park") I hear a request to yes, come to the playground. "Which door?" They tell me the name of the playground instead, which I quickly confirm with a lunch aide to be the playground by the cafeteria, so I help the first student out of the wheelchair and then basically run down the hallway. One of our principals joined me (for the first time. because the yelling was so panicked. I now hear in the other language that the student was getting up but still couldn't breathe) but when we emerged from the doors we saw no situation and one of the recess supers told us to go around the school the other playground. (The one closer to the health office. :mad:) So we take off again. I get there and all the students are lined up, including the student in question at the end of the line.

Long end of the story short, he fell and the wind got knocked out of him. He was so upset by the attention and the yelling that he wouldn't even make eye contact with me and just barely let me listen to his lungs and ask him a few questions before I let him storm off to lunch. The scariest thing was, this wasn't even a true emergency but a scary eye-opener to how messy an actual emergency would have been. 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 :drowning:

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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!!!!

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Specializes in ICU/community health/school nursing.
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 :drowning:

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!

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Specializes in ICU/community health/school nursing.
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:

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Specializes in Med-surg, school nursing..

It's field day. Nuff said.

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

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Specializes in Med-surg, school nursing..

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.

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Specializes in School.

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:

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"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..............

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Specializes in School Nursing.
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??"

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Specializes in Hospital medicine; NP precepting; staff education.
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.

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Specializes in NCSN.
WKShadowRN said:
For Frank's sake .

:roflmao:

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