Is It a Full Moon?

ruby_jane, BSN, RN · May 12, 2017

I believe it was last night. That explains the vomiting. The moon controls the tides....apparently the internal ones, too because I had vomit yesterday.

Margarita-thirty will be here before you know it!

WineRN · May 12, 2017

All the stomach aches without fevers!!

I'm at the point where parents are tired of me calling and they are picking them up

Supernrse01, BSN · May 12, 2017

Our district is NUTS today. Not just one building, ALL OF THEM. Annnnd, this does not just involve the students, faculty and staff are just as bad. Maybe worse. We have 9 days left and I'm not sure I'm gonna make it.

OyWithThePoodles, RN · May 12, 2017

YES!!! This madness.

At one point I had THREE staff members in my office for blood pressure checks. I think I am going to suggest to my boss lady that we have access to chart health visits on staff members on our computer system, because sometimes I spend more time with them than the kids. Ugh.

tamarae1 · May 12, 2017

Howwwwl! Awooooooooooo!!!! The moon in the morning against the bright blue morning sky has been an amazing view, though. Gorgeous!

Yep! It is a little nutty today. A little nuttier than I am anyway!

allnurses Guide · May 12, 2017

Nope, all is well.

My hospital did do a skit at the elementary school yesterday though. It was pretty funny when one of the nurses accidentally bent over and the kids saw his buttcrack. They loved it!

It is really quiet at work right now.

Tencat12 · May 12, 2017

Nope, all is well.
It was pretty funny when one of the nurses accidentally bent over and the kids saw his buttcrack. They loved it!
It is really quiet at work right now.

Yeah, I'll bet that nurse is the hit of the school!

You're pretty fast and loose with that "Q" word there...... :)

WineRN · May 12, 2017

You're pretty fast and loose with that "Q" word there...... :)

I thought the same thing. lol

abc123RN · May 12, 2017

Six different kids with toothaches!! More headaches than I could count! But most creative was the kid eating strawberries and coughed, he and his buddy arrived at my door out of breath (running down the hall, I could see them on the camera monitor) because the kid thought he was coughing up blood and his belly hurt. A quick check of VS and a few minutes of quiet time in the clinic restroom and he is all better! SEVEN more days of this!!

moreoreo · May 12, 2017

Well. On top of my now-usual 25 kids per hour during recess, guess whose school had a FUN RUN held away from their school today? *raises hand*

If you can guess how fun it is to administer inhalers at school for all students with pre-exercise inhaler orders minutes before stuffing the inhalers into medication backpacks to be taken to the event, for two grades at a time, each group an hour apart, and handing them off to teachers on their way to the bus, while having had to adjust times for your student who needs nursing care twice a day, whose grade's run time was scheduled during his care time, and hoping that there isn't an EMS call like there has been for the last two years, then you can imagine I do feel like it's a full moon today!

I didn't see a lot of stressed out students today but a lot of students saw a stressed out nurse :wtf:

guest042302019, BSN, RN · May 13, 2017

I believe the full moon theory is a self fulfilling prophecy. If you believe it, it will come and manifest. If you believe your night is going to be crappy, it probably will. It's all about perception. I have yet to see valid research regarding full moons and its' alleged negative affect on patient care. It's not that I don't believe you but I have a healthy degree of skepticism of things like that. :)