Do you notice trends with your student visits?

[ohiobobcat]

I do! And they come in 3s, too.

Today is a rash day. Three rashes so far, but I have a few hours left in my day still.

This week has been a reptile bite week?!? We have a biology teacher who lets his student handle the reptiles he keeps in his class. It's always good fun when you call home to tell mom that Susie got bit by a snake on the back of the neck in biology class. I've had 2 this week (one snake bite and one lizard-ish bite).

At the beginning of April I had cardiology week. One student with a dx of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (no incidents at school thank GOODNESS!!) and 2 students on cardiac monitors at school.

Do you notice these trends/themes as well?

[mc3, ASN, RN]

All I can say is there's going to be one very busy Tooth Fairy making the rounds tonight in my neck of the woods!

mc3:cat:

[Nurse Leigh]

Yesterday I had a female high schooler come in here with 99.1 temp and "weird pain" below belly button, off to one side. After asking some female timeline questions, I told her she probably was ovulating. I swear this is true...she asks, "What's THAT?" Sigh...made me write it on a sticky note.

Not a school nurse (but boy do you guys have my respect! Dealing with the students and their parents would be enough - but also having teachers and support staff and admin? Wowza!) but this totally reminded me of a thread from a couple years ago.

*see the post about the egg and you might feel better about your high school student.

https://allnurses.com/nursing-news/reports-of-virgin-894587-post7670070.html

[Farawyn]

Not a school nurse (but boy do you guys have my respect! Dealing with the students and their parents would be enough - but also having teachers and support staff and admin? Wowza!) but this totally reminded me of a thread from a couple years ago.

*see the post about the egg and you might feel better about your high school student.

https://allnurses.com/nursing-news/reports-of-virgin-894587-post7670070.html

That's a great thread! Thank you!

[Nurse Leigh]

Someone here had an even more frightening example. Maybe I'll come across it sometime and post the link cause it was pretty epic. I was pretty proud of the poster for not totally losing it (jaw dropping or dissolving into laughter) while witnessing the scene unfold.