Does it always get nuttier at Christmas?

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Specializes in School Nursing, Hospice,Med-Surg.

Every year when the Christmas season comes, it gets CRAZY at school. Why is that? Does everyone have their mind on something else so they get hurt more easily? Parents get distracted so they're not paying attention to their kids? What is it??

I'm doing tons of lice checks all day, every day and finding bad cases of it since we got back from Thanksgiving. A teacher just randomly fell down the stairs yesterday and did some serious damage to her leg...we had to call paramedics. Her sons go to this school and her youngest (4th grade) went into some serious anxiety mid-day while we waited to hear from her. My OI kid broke his 36th bone yesterday morning (his 4th or 5th this semester). My 6th grader whose seizures had really calmed down over the past two years fired up a grand mal last week and is in tears every day now worried she'll have another one at school in front of her classmates. A 3rd grader got a serious concussion on the playground last Friday.

I'm thinking I'll go back to med-surg to get some rest.

This will hopefully all calm down after Christmas and we'll just hit steady flu season come January. Oh, boy.

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YES! I think December is the toughest month in school. The kids are all amped for Christmas and Santa and no one wants to do any work.

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Specializes in School Nurse.

May is pretty awful as well, hang in there we all need the break.:dead:

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Specializes in Peds, Oncology.

I do feel like things get nuttier close to Christmas. I feel like the kids just don't want to be here anymore, and the staff is desperate to get rid of them. For the past two weeks, I get at least 5-10 notes a day that say, "Please check temp." Annoying.

I have to say, I am glad my OI child is gone this year. She transferred to another school. Mom would not fill out a care plan, a release of medical info, or get a physician care plan filled out. It was INFURIATING. I guess I never really had a "confirmed" diagnosis since I didn't get a care plan filled out and had no signed paperwork, but the child did fall at school on the playground and break bone number 6 last year.

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My Mother In Law who taught 2nd Grade for 30 years says December was always the most difficult. The kids can't focus, parents are distracted, etc.

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Oh. I shouldn't say this.

So far so good.

Did I just jinx myself? I did, didn't I? :blink:

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Oh. I shouldn't say this.

So far so good.

Did I just jinx myself? I did, didn't I? :blink:

Ummmmm YUP! You did. Watch out!

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Oh Fuuuuuudge!!!

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Specializes in Home Health,Dialysis, MDS, School Nurse.

I have spent this week trying to figure out why its been so busy all the sudden! Thanks for letting me in on the secret!

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Specializes in School Nursing.

Oh My Goodness.......YES it is getting crazier here too !! I have to really dig down and find some patience for these kids and teachers right before Christmas. Hang on Fellow Nurses !!

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DX: cabin fever

TX: Chill the heck out.

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Specializes in med-surg, IMC, school nursing, NICU.
I have spent this week trying to figure out why its been so busy all the sudden! Thanks for letting me in on the secret!

Me, too! I thought it was just my kids!

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