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.

Yesterday I saw a 3rd grader twice because "I poked my thumb with a pointy thing on Friday"

No evidence of anything on her thumb. Reassured her that she's fine. And of course, she returned after lunch "to see if you see anything wrong now"

Still no

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First thing this morning, had a student come in and hand me pills to give to her. Prescription bottle with Mom's name on it, no paperwork, but it's okay because she has a picture of her script for the same medication on her phone which is in her locker. Mom can't understand why I can't take that information as proof that this kid can take the medication. Ummm, #likemylicense

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I had a "drop and run" the other day. I had been emailing the parent telling her that I needed doctor's orders along with the epi-pen to be kept in the clinic. While I was out of the office, parent dropped off epi-pen at the front desk and left. We have two new people at the front and neither said they knew what to do, despite me telling them to never take medication from parents. Now I have an epi-pen with no orders, and I'm not holding out hope that those orders will be received.:banghead:

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I had a "drop and run" the other day. I had been emailing the parent telling her that I needed doctor's orders along with the epi-pen to be kept in the clinic. While I was out of the office, parent dropped off epi-pen at the front desk and left. We have two new people at the front and neither said they knew what to do, despite me telling them to never take medication from parents. Now I have an epi-pen with no orders, and I'm not holding out hope that those orders will be received.:banghead:

Well, is it expired??? or good?? these details are important!

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NutmeggeRN said:
Well, is it expired??? or good?? these details are important!

Bonus point one...not expired.

Bonus point two...prescription is for my student.

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kunaspud said:
First thing this morning, had a student come in and hand me pills to give to her. Prescription bottle with Mom's name on it, no paperwork, but it's okay because she has a picture of her script for the same medication on her phone which is in her locker. Mom can't understand why I can't take that information as proof that this kid can take the medication. Ummm, #likemylicense

Not gonna lie, I chuckled at this one. Mainly because when I finally think parents and kids can't shock me anymore, you have loonies like these that prove me wrong.

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BeckyESRN said:
Yesterday I saw a 3rd grader twice because "I poked my thumb with a pointy thing on Friday"

No evidence of anything on her thumb. Reassured her that she's fine. And of course, she returned after lunch "to see if you see anything wrong now"

Still no

OMG, she came in again today for this! This time "There's a black thing right where I poked myself and it still really hurts"

It was a speck of dirt, for reals, a speck. I brushed it off and she said that it felt much better "Now that you got that huge splinter out"

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Hematology Oncology, School Nurse.

2 first graders walk into the clinic...

1st grade messenger girl: He needs some ice. (and she points to her classmate)

Me: Well, *kid*, why do you need ice?

Boy: My chair leg came up and it went down on my foot real hard.

Me: Show me where your foot is hurt.

Boy: (points in the general location of his left heel)

Me: Take off your shoe and sock so that I can see if anything is swelling or cut.

Boy: (takes off shoe and sock and begins looking ALL around his foot...toes, heel, medial ankle, lateral ankle)

Me: If you don't know where your foot hurts, then I think you are alright. You need to put your sock & shoe back on and get back to class.

Me:

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I had a kid on Friday come to me because she forgot to put on her bra that morning!!! The C'MON NOW is she really had nothing to fill a bra in the first place.........

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I overheard a teacher scold a child in the hallway for telling me his head didn't hurt after bumping it, because that is why he didn't get an ice pack. This is the same teacher who has rolled her eyes while bringing children to me for "being OK but complaining too much." :facepalm:

My mission this year is to teach children the difference between discomfort and pain and to hear that negative reinforcement the second after I felt proud of a student for recognizing the difference supported my belief that sometimes we teach children to complain more than they are naturally inclined to :cautious:

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SchoolNurseTXstyle said:
I had a kid on Friday come to me because she forgot to put on her bra that morning!!! The C'MON NOW is she really had nothing to fill a bra in the first place.........

This really made me giggle! She thought you would have spare bras hanging around your clinic??? Giggling even harder at your last sentence. :roflmao:

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moreoreo said:
I overheard a teacher scold a child in the hallway for telling me his head didn't hurt after bumping it, because that is why he didn't get an ice pack. This is the same teacher who has rolled her eyes while bringing children to me for "being OK but complaining too much." :facepalm:

My mission this year is to teach children the difference between discomfort and pain and to hear that negative reinforcement the second after I felt proud of a student for recognizing the difference supported my belief that sometimes we teach children to complain more than they are naturally inclined to :cautious:

YES! The once that drive me up the wall are the kids who come in and say "I'm fine, but my teacher made me come!"

In my beginning of the year speech I told the students (when really talking to the teachers) that if they don't feel they need to come to me, that is their decision. That I have had some parents specifically wonder why their child keeps coming up when THEY have told them not to unless they really need to. Then I have to tell the parent that the teacher is making them. They aren't allowing their students to think for themselves. Which explains why we have a bunch of NETY crying new grads. (Whoops, that slipped out)

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