I just can't...

[KeeperOfTheIceRN]

...handle loose/pulling teeth!! It is a spine tingling, goose-bump inducing hard limit for me! I mean, once they're out, I'm good. Its just the sight of the wiggling tooth and the act of pulling it out that just makes me squeamish, man-oh-man!! I'm soooooo thankful for my admin assistant who is willing to handle this ever prevalent occurrence in the school setting! But that makes me curious....

....what's your hard limit? Do you have something that, if you can, you pass on to someone else?

[KeeperOfTheIceRN, ADN]

What is the Tooth Fairy story that I missed??

Reader's Digest version: a school nurse got in trouble for performing duties outside of her scope of practice for pulling teeth at her school. If I remember correctly, they stated she was performing the duties of a Dentist under the license of a nurse....

[KeeperOfTheIceRN, ADN]

"Step aside Little Lady...this is a man's job!"

You're my hero, OD!

[Have Nurse, ADN, RN]

Oh gosh. I forgot about that story! I can't believe that even happened. But I am glad that my admin assistant doesn't pull them either. She will sit there with the kids and encourage them to get them out on their own. Nothing else bothers me though! Wounds, vomit, broken bones, snot/phlegm, whatevs! Just don't bring those loose teeth to me!!

Am curious...what story? Do you know the details? Sounds very interesting!

[LikeTheDeadSea, MSN, RN]

I 2nd the bad breath!! I gag a little just thinking about it.

Also, a disfigurement that I didn't witness occur. I've seen kids break ulna/radius with a definitely not straight arm and have not had a problem, since I saw it occur. But the same injury walking into my office or having me arrive on scene makes me do the surprised gasp with some "Refocus, self" coaching.

[KeeperOfTheIceRN, ADN]

Oklahoma dental board investigating Tulsa private school's 'Tooth Fairy' | Homepagelatest | tulsaworld.com

Here is the story I read about!

[AdobeRN]

I had poop duty, hubby had puke duty.

Haha.....same in my house.

[T-ROD, LPN]

1st year school nurse here!!! Not much has phased me. I came from a mental fragile children's home so I had seen a lot of gross things. Teeth do not bother me. I only pull if the parent is in here with me. Like a teachers student. What kills me is unwashed hair. That smell haunts me in my dreams!!!!!!!!!!

[MrNurse(x2), ADN]

Eyes, that is the Kryptonite for both my wife and I. I steel myself when a student comes in covering an eye. My poker face will fail immediately. Our pug had a partial avulsion a few years ago, neither of us were any good.

[OldDude]

Here's my Tooth Fairy story...several years ago I had a kid come in for a "Treasure Box" to put his tooth in that had come out at school. I put the tooth in the little plastic treasure chest and handed it to him and told him to be sure and let his dad know to put it under his pillow so the Tooth Fairy can come take it and maybe leave him some money for it.

The kid came back the next day and told me his dad said there wasn't a such thing as a Tooth Fairy, but there is a such thing as a Tooth Elf. It was then that the light came on in my head and I remembered he was being raised by his dad who is gay. My response..."yep, your dad is correct.":whistling:

That kid is a senior this year...time flies!

[WineRN]

What is the Tooth Fairy story that I missed??

Oklahoma dental board investigating Tulsa private school's 'Tooth Fairy' | Homepagelatest | tulsaworld.com

"Step aside Little Lady...this is a man's job!"

My Hero!

[kidzcare]

Loose teeth give me the heebie-jeebies too. When my son lost his first tooth, he literally lost it. He came to me in the morning going "Look! It bends all the way down!" and I was like "Gross! Please don't show me! Go brush your teeth." When he finished brushing the tooth was gone. I think he spit it down the sink.

But what really gets me is snot. Or really any goopy discharge. I can't take it. Blood? No worries. Wound vac down to the bone? I will happily put it on. Vomit? I have literally eaten my lunch with a student vomiting in front of me and just asked them to aim for the garbage can. As soon as there is snot running down the face, I gag.

[BeckyESRN]

I've never had an aversion to a thing (suction, vomit, teeth), but every now and then something will turn my stomach. My son got sick over night a few weeks ago and threw up an unreal amount of the most vile smelling, chunky, slimy, toxic, rancid emesis I had ever encountered. Cleaning his bed, I nearly lost it more than once.

One of my lovely kiddos that has to use ONLY MY restroom must have some serious GI funkiness because, on the rare occasion that he uses my restroom for something other than avoidance, it's horrific and makes me gag.

When I was pregnant(and still at the bedside) it was tube feeding. I walked into my patients room and pulled back her covers to assess her and her feeding had been dislodged from her G tube and been running onto the bed for hours. I ran to the trashcan and vomited-not my proudest moment.