A kid comes into my office, "I threw up this morning, and I was spitting up blood, and I felt fine but now I feel nauseous. Dad knows, he says I'll be fine."
Drank a bottle and a half of water so far this morning, afebrile, no other symptoms, good color, no cough, completely alert and able to answer all my questions quickly, and easily.
I told the kid to bring me back spit up blood and make sure he vomits in my bathroom.
Also, c'mon teach! Why'd you send me this kid?
Edit: Apparently, he has a state test this morning in math class...
I think i am getting blessed with a shiny new policy this year - i'll tell you more next week when i'm at liberty to speak about it. Suffice it to say though, i'm happy.
Reminds me of a funny story from last year. I was talking that to two APs who swear they saw lice flying from one head to another. They looked at me like I was crazy when I tried to explain that lice dont fly. Oh the struggles.
Reminds me of a funny story from last year. I was talking that to two APs who swear they saw lice flying from one head to another. They looked at me like I was crazy when I tried to explain that lice dont fly. Oh the struggles.
Last year a parent told me that "based on her research" female lice can fly...
Yeah, one school employee showed me the flying lice . . . it was a flea.
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Please for the love of Dog, explain to me HOW all the totally awesome school nurses here don't just lose their collective s#!+ on some of these parents. Like, shut the door & sit them down and let it out (under the teaching hat, of course).
Kids can be amazeballs! Parents, yeah some are just not.
Shaved head dad would have been educated. I might have even treated the lice myself, cause damn. But, I'd have tried a CPS referral for abuse/emotional or otherwise. Likely living in squalor and I'd have found a way to pop in on them under the guise of dropping off "lice treatment" sample or something (with the 50 in tow) for no better reason than a parent showing such bad judgement to shave a little girls head. That's abuse in my book.
Not sending meds. Seeing flying lice. Pulling facts out of their A (air/a$$). Arguing only to be fractious and then being pi$$ poor parents. Just no.
Kids are so lucky to have you guys looking out for them. You might be the only safety net some of them have.
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Last year a parent told me that "based on her research" female lice can fly...
I think the parent just must be confused. Since it is nearing Halloween, maybe she read somewhere that girl lice hop on the little brooms and fly around, but I am pretty sure it must just be for the month of October.
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I had a phone conversation with a parent last week. The parent pretty quickly dropped the F-bomb, I did put a stop to that right then and there. She went on to tell me that the "lice" they found the night before jumped. When I clarified what she had said, she said' "yes, they jumped 50 feet away from them (the kids)" She was shocked when my quick reply was that "lice don't jump." Then she asked how people get lice? I then turned it into a teachable moment. Hmmmmm...so then we talked about the possibility of the jumping lice being fleas.
Specializes in School Nurse. Having conversations with littles..
Please for the love of Dog, explain to me HOW all the totally awesome school nurses here don't just lose their collective s#!+ on some of these parents. Like, shut the door & sit them down and let it out (under the teaching hat, of course).
Kudos all. You rock!
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To answer your question about how we don't unleash the beast on these kinds of parents: This is my first thought. It has a lot to do with remembering where we are and what environment we are working in. Learning the slippery slope of dealing with parents and their little snowflakes in relation to the educational system can be a very difficult thing to figure out. Sometimes is takes many years and different situations to perfect this skill of Professionalism. For the sake of the child, it has to be handled very carefully and gracefully. Sometimes, even have to throw in a dash of mercy.
I told the family member that that was NOT a solution! I also let the family member know that (from what the office staff said) the student had a very rough year after her head was shaved last year.
The family member was blaming the student for not washing her hair, blah, blah, blah.
YOU are the parent. YOU are responsible. I'm all for teaching our kids responsibility. But they cannot treat themselves for lice.
COME THE HECK ON!
I remember getting live in elementary. My mother wanted to kill the school nurse.
I started crying and told the nurse that my hair wasn't dirty. She, trying to comfort me, told me lice liked clean hair. See where this is going?
it took two people to hold me down to get my hair washed. It's a wonder the neighbors didn't call the police. There was absolutely no convincing me that I needed to wash it. No threat or bribe worked. I did not want bugs in my hair.
In dealing with parents, I find that I instinctively do some deep breathing and counting backwards before calling a parent or when I see one coming down the hall that I know will be confrontational. That...and I rant something crazy on my drive home in the afternoon.
YOU are the parent. YOU are responsible. I'm all for teaching our kids responsibility. But they cannot treat themselves for lice. 
Nurse Leigh
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We she have preferred to have NOT awakened but *still* peed? Lol
Y'all could publish a truly funny book of situations you've encountered!