Do you ever do nothing for your student?

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I had a kid come to me with pain from a regular run of the mill ingrown toenail. There was nothing I could do. I don't have anything to set up a foot soak, I technically can't do nail care outside of cleaning nails, not enough nail to do the wet cotton trick. So I just explained how to properly trim toenails and sent him back to class.

Specializes in IMC, school nursing.
My biggest "I can't do anything about that" is mouth ulcers.

Loose teeth, I am not a dentist.

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Specializes in Peds, Oncology.
Loose teeth, I am not a dentist.

Same here. I had a kid who had a sub last week.. came down to me with a loose tooth. I told him it will come out when it's ready.. he told me, "Mrs. X pulls our teeth ALL THE TIME!"

UGH, great! :banghead:

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Loose teeth, I am not a dentist.

and you don't go see the dentist for a loose tooth. What on earth is it expected that we will do?

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Specializes in NCSN.
Same here. I had a kid who had a sub last week.. came down to me with a loose tooth. I told him it will come out when it's ready.. he told me, "Mrs. X pulls our teeth ALL THE TIME!"

UGH, great! :banghead:

The previous nurse here used to pull teeth too, so it's a big change that I refuse too.

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Specializes in Cardiology, School Nursing, General.

Had a kid lying to me that he was feeling sick yesterday, it's amazing how good I am in knowing they're lying now. I told him to go back to class and he just kept going on he was sick and that his class is boring. I'm like, I don't care, go back to class, we only got 2 more days left! Called his mother and she teared him a new one after that phone call.

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Specializes in Peds, Oncology.

I just had one tell me her side was "numb" after someone hit her with a ball. I really love when kids tell me their body parts are "numb." What am I supposed to do with that?

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Specializes in School Nursing.

Today I "prescribed" stretching exercises to two students with soreness without injury. I explained how my dog does these amazing stretches every time he gets up and that he reminds me to stretch too. As I showed them a few stretches, *I* started to feel better!

It might have felt like nothing but I did not get the impression that their teachers would feel comfortable telling them to do that so I feel pretty good about it! :up:

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Specializes in Peds, Neuro, Orthopedics.
I just had one tell me her side was "numb" after someone hit her with a ball. I really love when kids tell me their body parts are "numb." What am I supposed to do with that?

As an ex-neuro/ortho post-op nurse I still freak out at the word "numb" because it was a major red flag in that line of nursing. On these kiddos I have flashbacks to those days and I always immediately check cap refill, warmth and color. Then I laugh at myself for the over-assessment.

The last kiddo I did nothing for was the one that came to me 15 minutes before dismissal saying he'd been coughing all day. I told him to go home in 15 minutes and tell his parents. Seriously, what do you want from me in the last 15 minutes of the day for a cough? I don't even have cough drops.

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