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.
LOTS in elementary school, mostly because I just wanted to go home. I was THAT kid who would take out the thermometer (olden days when we used glass thermometers) and put in under her desk lamp to fake a fever so she would call my mom to pick me up. Sure wish I could time warp back to that time to see what the reading(s) was/were.
In junior high, I only went when truly ill.
And in high school...only if I honestly already puked or if the puke even was coming.
I remember being in the school nurse's office pretty often with "asthma attacks" as an elementary school student. Ditto Jr. High (haha, that's what it was called back in the day). If the albuterol didn't work, mom would have to come get me and take me to see the doc. By the time I got to High School, I was taking care of things myself and not bothering with the school nurse (who bought I was a total slacker because of my frequent visits - "nobody has THAT MANY asthma attacks"). Imagine her surprise when someone finally figured out I have CF!
I can remember scoliosis screening in 5/6th grade other than that, I done't remember having a school nurse. Had a medical issue in high school, but never seen the school nurse. Called my dad and he told them to let me go home so I could go to the DR.
I went to the same Catholic school from K-8, and we didn't have a school nurse. The front office staff would give you meds if you had some there, the janitor had a closet where he would bandage you up if you were hurt (and paint on the Mercurochrome--a badge of honor!), and I guess we were just sent home if we were ill. Our parents never sent us to school sick, though. I remember a student with diabetes in my class in 6th grade, and his mom met him in the office every day to check his blood sugar. The only screening I recall was for lice, and was done by the secretary after we had a big outbreak in 2nd or 3rd grade. I remember half my class being out with chicken pox in 2nd grade, as well. In high school, if you got sick, you called your parents and could drive yourself home.
I remember 2 classroom head lice checks, a hearing and vision screen, scoliosis screen, and the one time she showed up on the playground to escort the 1 diabetic kid to her office.
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LOTS in elementary school, mostly because I just wanted to go home. I was THAT kid who would take out the thermometer (olden days when we used glass thermometers) and put in under her desk lamp to fake a fever so she would call my mom to pick me up. Sure wish I could time warp back to that time to see what the reading(s) was/were.
In junior high, I only went when truly ill.
And in high school...only if I honestly already puked or if the puke even was coming.