Colorado closes entire district for illness

[MHDNURSE]

Have you guys seen this yet?

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/21/us/colorado-school-district-closed-virus-outbreak/index.html

[NutmeggeRN, BSN]

ugh...

[Cas1in72]

Yikes, does not sound like fun. Im picturing this " sudden" onset of vomiting happening to a lot of students at the same time. UGH

[kidzcare]

2 hours ago, Cas1in72 said:

Yikes, does not sound like fun. Im picturing this " sudden" onset of vomiting happening to a lot of students at the same time. UGH

I had something like this once. We had a half day and in those 3.5 hours, I sent home 10 kids with active vomiting.

I was still a newbie school nurse and thought it would be a really proactive, thoughtful to send home a notice to parents that we had quite a few students with a bug and to watch their kids closely and keep them home for nausea with or without fever the next day (which was a Friday)

I had taken that Friday off for something and turns out it was a complete sh!tshow the next day. 10% of the school called in, dozens of messages from parents looking for more info, kids streaming in all day saying they felt nauseous. The sub I had that day left me a note that started with "You must NEVER want me to come back"

[JenTheSchoolRN, BSN, RN]

My school experienced something like this a couple of years before I started. A stomach bug run through the school, hitting teachers and several them vomited into trash cans in the middle of class. We closed for 1.5 days.

After I started, I did have one Friday where a stomach bug was making the rounds in one specific grade - our seniors. 50% of the class was affected and several of them were in the school musical that had a performance that night. I was tech director and we had 10 students vomit during the school, including one of my back stage crew - in the middle of the bathroom floor during Act 1 when janitor was unavailable and it needed to be clean before audience used it at intermission.

Who cleaned it? Yep, you guessed it - me! I did have the school have a cleaning company come in over the weekend to clean the school. Luckily it was 24-48 bug and settled down by Monday.

(The show was we during was Legally Blonde. We and the director still lovingly call it Legally Vom to this day.)

[BrisketRN, BSN, RN]

A couple years ago we had nearly 10% of our school out with some nasty bug. They were all vomiting. At one point I had 3 kids vomiting in my office at the same time. One of our office workers had recently moved into an office near mine and walked by with a look of total horror on her face. We didn't end up closing, but we did have a crew come in and do a deep cleaning of the school overnight.