It's not even 8 am yet (here)...

[ohiobobcat]

...and I've already seen 5 students (from 7:20 on).

1 infected hangnail

"Oh, YOU'RE the nurse?" Said by a student who knows my kids but I guess never made the connection that I am their mom AND the school nurse.

1 girl-fight on the bus this morning (lots of scratches)

1 painful looking blister

1 stomach pain who drank 5 energy drinks yesterday and ate some chips at 1 am last night

1 "I think I have a fever" who totally messed up by taking Tylenol before he got to school. He might have had a fever, but we'll never know now, will we, buddy?

And the full moon was LAST week.

[JerseyTomatoMDCrab, BSN]

I got here at 0800. Sat through a meeting until 0830 when the kids show up. Had a teacher waiting to tell me that she forgot to tell me her class was going on a field trip at 0900.

While I am dealing with that, I had 1 nauseated student, 1 mom insisting she sign a religious declination for her children's immunizations, 2 milk spills requiring change of clothes, 1 parent on the phone (thanking me, so that was nice) and 1 headache with a fever.

I have a sub tomorrow and I can't wait.

[OldDude]

grinning hall monitor : Oh THERE YOU ARE, NURSE! YOU HAVE CUSTOMERS WAITING!!!

This drives me out of my mind!!! Oh, I'm so glad you pointed that out. I could have gone in the clinic and not even noticed anyone in there lest you told me so. Thanks, and yes - HERE I AM!!!!

[Farawyn]

This drives me out of my mind!!! Oh, I'm so glad you pointed that out. I could have gone in the clinic and not even noticed anyone in there lest you told me so. Thanks, and yes - HERE I AM!!!!

TA DAAAA!

[SnowyJ, RN]

I get here at 0700 so that I can acclimate. (I am pretty sure I have ADD.) if I walked in to students at the bell without a transition time, I'd go batty.

[NutmeggeRN, BSN]

For me it is not the parents who nail me with my hands full......it is the teachers looking for bandaids, kleenex etc....

[Wave Watcher]

TA DAAAA!

I feel like a preforming monkey sometimes. Watch me whip...watch me nae nae. Do the stanky leeeggg.....do the stanky leeeggg!!!

Thank you I'm here till 3:30.

[OldDude]

I feel like a preforming monkey sometimes. What me whip...watch me nae nae. Do the stanky leeeggg.....do the stanky leeeggg!!!

Thank you I'm here till 3:30.

Talk about LOLing. That's funny

[crazynursebsn]

It's not even 8am here and I've already had a teacher fall, resulting in an EMS call. Called down to a classroom for a kid with no medical history who said he couldn't feel his legs and therefore couldn't get out of his desk, and a band field trip that I didn't know anything about until I walked in the door this morning. TGIF! Thanksgiving break can't get here soon enough.

[100kids, BSN, RN]

TGIF! Thanksgiving break can't get here soon enough.

THIS!!! I am so in need of a few days off and the weekends are just not long enough!

[fbrandt18]

I admire school nurses! I am an oncology nurse, which is tough, but dealing with other people' s children is tough, too!

[Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN]

I admire school nurses! I am an oncology nurse, which is tough, but dealing with other people' s children is tough, too!

Thanks. :) I work in hospice too and you deserve kudos as well.

The kids, for me, aren't that much of a problem.

It is some of the parents.

It is some of the teachers and principals.

My last day as the school nurse in our district was a week ago and my stress level has lowered quite a bit.

[Flare, ASN, BSN]

This drives me out of my mind!!! Oh, I'm so glad you pointed that out. I could have gone in the clinic and not even noticed anyone in there lest you told me so. Thanks, and yes - HERE I AM!!!!

Here I am.... now what are your other 2 wishes???