How often did YOU see the school nurse?

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I can honestly remember seeing the school nurse on just 3 occasions:

1. 1st grade - My Mom suspected chicken pox but was not sure. Told me to go to school and ask my teacher to see the school nurse because "my Mom thinks I have the chicken pox." That went over well !

2. 2nd grade - I got slammed in the back of the head by another student doing a "penny drop" on the bars. I saw stars and staggered dizzily back into the school with the help of a friend. Fell asleep with my head on my desk. Woke up and promptly vomited, luckily into a trash can. Sent home. Never went to a doctor. Had planned sleep over that evening.

3. 7th grade - First period began the day prior. I just felt all kinds of weird.

Never saw the school nurse again.

Specializes in ED, School Nurse.

I went to 5 different elementary schools for various reasons. My dad was in the military, we moved a lot, one school closed and we were moved to another school, and one switch was because I tested into the talented and gifted program which ran out of a different school.

The only time I remember a school nurse in elementary school was in 5th and 6th grade for lice checks.

I remember a scoliosis screening in middle school.

In high school, I had a bad case of senior-itis my senior year and visited the school nurse more often that I should have and got sent home more often then I should have.

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.
14 years old, I burned my initial on my hand with a lighter and had a blister. I went to get a bandaid and she called my dad and told on me! LOL got a whoopin' at 14 years old :D

You earned that one!!!!

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I rarely went. I attended a very same Catholic elementary school and high school - there was a nurse, but she was very part time. I can only remember 3 visits:

3rd grade: spent the day stumbling and feeling very dizzy. Turns out I had a double ear infection. Went home for that one.

6th grade: I remember being screened for scoliosis (in front of everyone - it was horrible and that feeling still sticks with me when I screen students one at a time privately today) and being referred out. No scoliosis, but I had to get x-rays, back bend with only underwear on...not fun. Especially because that was year I was bullied a lot in my small class of 24. Kids did not let that one go.

9th grade: Severe menstrual cramps one day that I almost passed out from. I did make it through the school day, because attendance was very important to me. Went on birth control pills soon after, thank goodness.

I wasn't a complainer growing up. If I did complain, my parents knew something was up.

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Dating myself here...1969 small pox vaccination in the gym is burned into my mind. Maybe a handful through jr high then never in high school.

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1969 small pox vaccination in the gym is burned into my mind.

You just jogged my memory! Standing in line in the cafeteria waiting to get immunized like a bunch of cattle through a chute.

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Never. We didn't have a school nurse. But the secretary handed out ice packs, so I think I got one of those once.

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My school never had one onsite. I met one once when I worked for a hospital that did a health fair at a local high school. She was assigned to several schools throughout the county and was at a different location everyday. That was around 15 years ago. Now my daughter is in elementary school and I know she doesn't have one at her school. They trained someone in the front office to give prescription bottle meds during school if needed. I just come in the office and medicate her if she's being treated for something. I've seen too many errors by med techs when I worked in an ALF so I'm paranoid when it comes to unlicensed personel handling drugs.

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Specializes in Allergy/ENT, Occ Health, LTC/Skilled.

never, did we even have one lol?? I swear I never saw her.

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Dating myself here...1969 small pox vaccination in the gym is burned into my mind. Maybe a handful through jr high then never in high school.

You just jogged my memory! Standing in line in the cafeteria waiting to get immunized like a bunch of cattle through a chute.

My memory was jogged as well!

I do remember standing in line to get immunized. I have the scar to prove it.

But I don't know if it was the school nurse.

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So sorry to my school nurse.

Especially in middle and high school, I'd be the faker. For some reason, I was deathly pale, so it added onto my story of having a bad stomach ache. I didn't do it too often, but I usually was sent home.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, OB, ICU, Public Health Nursing.

About the third grade, the whole school lined up for polio vaccine. In 5th grade woke up in princpal's office smelling ammonia inhalant after fainting. Hypoglycemia, which I have to this day. In high school, I caught my hair on fire using a torch to weld jewelry. I was so upset, I immediately got a migraine and she let me go home.

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Never. When I wanted to get out of class, I just skipped.

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