Kids do the grossest (and weirdest things)

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Community Health, School Health.

OMG! I was just called up to one of the Kindergarten classrooms. One of the students got a bloody nose. He dripped a little onto the table (where 4 other kids sit for reading). He got up to get tissues and just as the teacher was coming over with a glove to wipe the blood, another student went over and wiped it up with his finger and ATE it :nailbiting::nono::blink:

SERIOUSLY??????? Now I get the pleasure of making that phone call to both families. What the ever loving f@$#??????

I can't even...

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Specializes in ED, School Nurse.

Looks like ketchup!! Tastes like metal!!

Ew!! Yeah- that'll be a fun phone call. I don't envy you.

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Specializes in School Nurse. Having conversations with littles..

Holy Moly ... that is...wellll...I can't ever put words to that. :woot: I am so sorry that you have to make those phone calls. Let us know how you are doing.

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Specializes in Home Health,Dialysis, MDS, School Nurse.

We have found Renesmee Cullen :roflmao:

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Community Health, School Health.

Update: Spoke with our Operations Manager who called and spoke with our lawyer. Lawyer instructed us both that all I could say to the parents of the kid who ate the blood was what happened. I am not allowed to give any other info. I can't even tell them that the child whose blood it was is UTD on vaccines. This blows. Waiting to hear back from the parents. So I will be very matter of fact, tell them what happened, tell them I can't give them any other info but I will tell them that if it were my child I would see my pediatrician for further testing.

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Not at my school thank goodness, but another SN had a boy take a taste test of menstrual blood that overflowed into her desk chair.

Lots of paperwork and phone calls..........

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We have found Renesmee Cullen :roflmao:

Good one!!!

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Specializes in Telemetry, Gastroenterology, School Nrs.

:wideyed:

And here I thought my day was nuts! Good luck and keep us posted!!

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.

Yuck. And I am sure the parent of the taste tester is going to be less than happy to get no info out of you. On the plus side, that child's hemoglobin just went up by a fraction of a percent

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Update: Spoke with our Operations Manager who called and spoke with our lawyer. Lawyer instructed us both that all I could say to the parents of the kid who ate the blood was what happened. I am not allowed to give any other info. I can't even tell them that the child whose blood it was is UTD on vaccines. This blows. Waiting to hear back from the parents. So I will be very matter of fact, tell them what happened, tell them I can't give them any other info but I will tell them that if it were my child I would see my pediatrician for further testing.

Our admins are (usually) really good and that would be a call for THEM to make, not us.

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Specializes in School nursing.
Our admins are (usually) really good and that would be a call for THEM to make, not us.

Mine, too. They'd consult with me, but they buck up and make the call.

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Specializes in School Nursing, Pediatrics.

Ugh, gross! I had a kid in here the other day and he had a bloody nose, (got hit in the nose with an ice ball) and my office looked like a crime scene, blood was everywhere, the kid was a hot mess! Another kid came running in, and slipped on the blood! It was gross!

Crazy days!! People don't believe these things actually happen when I tell them! I am glad you all understand!

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