Love-Hate relationship with Teachers

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I'm pretty much at my witt's end here. These teachers are so demanding and get puzzled at me if I don't send their students home. I'm fed up with Teachers who think they know better than the Nurse. Over it !! Thanks for letting me vent 😕

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I have teachers that are obsessed with "documentation." Every little bump, scratch, jostle and poke needs to be seen by me for documentation. A teacher brought me a kid who tripped at dismissal. The kid was fine. I told her to tell his parents. She said, "Don't you need to know for documentation purposes?" My school has well over 500 kids. Yes, I want to document every bump sustained.

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Teacher brings in a kid who had sutures removed from a laceration on his knee; occurred two weeks ago. Wound edges were gapping a little but everything was healing well, no bleeding, no erythema. "You need to call his mom. She needs to take him to have it sewed back up!" Teacher leaves the clinic, kid and I just grin at each other. "I told her my mom knows about it and the doctor already saw it but she said I need to come here anyway."

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Teacher brings in a kid who had sutures removed from a laceration on his knee; occurred two weeks ago. Wound edges were gapping a little but everything was healing well, no bleeding, no erythema. "You need to call his mom. She needs to take him to have it sewed back up!" Teacher leaves the clinic, kid and I just grin at each other. "I told her my mom knows about it and the doctor already saw it but she said I need to come here anyway."

I Looooove when the kids are "in on it"!

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Specializes in med-surg, IMC, school nursing, NICU.

A teacher just sent me a student because her ponytail is too tight.

I can't.

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A teacher just sent me a student because her ponytail is too tight.

I can't.

Wha...?

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Specializes in IMC, school nursing.
A teacher just sent me a student because her ponytail is too tight.

I can't.

I know this may be unpopular, and I will admit that I have 25-30% of the kids most on this site have, but I approach my role here as ancillary. The main business of a school is education, if stopping class to deal with a little's hair braids (hoping this wasn't a kid who could undo her own) takes away from class time, then send them to me. Could you see if those type of problems be sent to the secretary? I agree, a lot of the reasons on this thread are teacher induced paranoia and don't need to be sent, but you could view it as a distracted teacher isn't conducive to learning? :banghead: I understand the frustration, but maybe another viewpoint may make these funny as opposed to frustrating. Don't hate me.:unsure:

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Specializes in med-surg, IMC, school nursing, NICU.
I know this may be unpopular, and I will admit that I have 25-30% of the kids most on this site have, but I approach my role here as ancillary. The main business of a school is education, if stopping class to deal with a little's hair braids (hoping this wasn't a kid who could undo her own) takes away from class time, then send them to me

No hate from me! This was a simple ponytail, nothing the student couldn't have undone herself at her age. I wasn't terribly busy when she came in, I just can't help but be baffled at the silly tasks that fall in my lap. Totally not nurse related but since they don't fit into any other categories they come to me by default.

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Specializes in IMC, school nursing.

JerseyTomatoMDCrab, those are the ones that bring a smile to my face. I am the same at the hospital, I can find sunshine even on days like today. Most of my coworkers find this trait annoying. :roflmao:

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Specializes in School Nursing, Hospice,Med-Surg.
I know this may be unpopular, and I will admit that I have 25-30% of the kids most on this site have, but I approach my role here as ancillary. The main business of a school is education, if stopping class to deal with a little's hair braids (hoping this wasn't a kid who could undo her own) takes away from class time, then send them to me. Could you see if those type of problems be sent to the secretary? I agree, a lot of the reasons on this thread are teacher induced paranoia and don't need to be sent, but you could view it as a distracted teacher isn't conducive to learning? :banghead: I understand the frustration, but maybe another viewpoint may make these funny as opposed to frustrating. Don't hate me.:unsure:

How is this a nursing skill? The teacher can't loosen up that ponytail in 2 seconds versus the 5 minutes it takes for the kid to traipse down the hall to the clinic, explain the situation to the nurse, have the nurse loosen up the ponytail, then have the kiddo lollygag back down the hall?? Talk about lost class time...

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Specializes in School Nursing, Hospice,Med-Surg.

And, yes, these things crack me up but also go in my file of ridiculous way we waste time at school.

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Specializes in IMC, school nursing.

Nurses, like teachers, are often called on to do so much more than what is in our skill set. I get sent kids when teachers have had enough, I get it. Yes, that student lost time from class, but maybe the walk to class readjusted her attitude to make the time more productive when she got back. She was probably a distraction, that's why she was sent out of class. Was it stupid, yes, but maybe it helped the kid in the long run. I am still fresh at this and only have 125 kids, I am in shangri-la, but hopefully I can give a different filter, because what I see at my IMC job is so much harder and frustrating.

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