Love-Hate relationship with Teachers

[Keepstanding]

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 😕

[SchoolNurseTXstyle]

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? I understand the frustration, but maybe another viewpoint may make these funny as opposed to frustrating. Don't hate me.[/QUO

You do bring up a very good point, I can see things from the teacher side of things. However, with some of the things we see - the teacher writing the pass probably takes longer than assisting the student themselves.

It is also all relative. The nurse at a low health needs school of 300 may have way more time than a nurse at a high health needs school of 1600. It is all about the triage.....

[Farawyn]

...Don't hate me.

You just made The List, bub.

[peacockblue]

MrNurse(x2) I get what you are saying and with 125 kids that's great. I have 1300.

[tining, BSN, RN]

I just pulled some numbers of visit per teacher, my "favorite" teacher has sent 95 visits my way this school year and we haven't even been here 100 days. The other teachers in her group have sent 25 each. I find her intolerant of even the simplest health/hygiene issue in this low socioeconomic school. Personally she needs to put her big girl panties on.