minor complaints

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i'm feeling very short fused lately with the parade of minor complaints coming into my office. Chapped lips -holy crow - i must have seen 50 kids looking for the little packets of lip balm yesterday - i just stopped charting it at one point when i got too busy with actual issues. Dry skin, stuffy noses. I can't believe that students are let out of class for these non issues. Yes, i get that dry skin is irritating, but it's also not worth leaving in the middle of a lesson for.

And, yes - i've mentioned to staff and admins that perhaps the children don't need to leave class for all of these small crises. Some of my admins are supportive, some of the teachers are cooperative - others not so much.

they've all licked worse...

Haven't we all?

#uncomfortabletruth

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Specializes in School Nursing.

Teachers who come to me with a "very sick" student who they say has been sick ALL day......and it's only 8:05. SERIOUSLY ??? They didn't get here until 8:00am... Happy Friday !!

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.
Haven't we all?

#uncomfortabletruth

Although this provided a grand opportunity kidz, I'm just gonna "let it go, let it go." Just because I'm such a nice guy.

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Specializes in School Nursing, Hospice,Med-Surg.

It IS dry lips week!!

I've been doing the Napoleon Dynamite line every day, "My lips are KILLING me! Gah!"

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Teachers who come to me with a "very sick" student who they say has been sick ALL day......and it's only 8:05. SERIOUSLY ??? They didn't get here until 8:00am... Happy Friday !!

And their idea of very sick and ours is so totally out of sync.....

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It IS dry lips week!!

I've been doing the Napoleon Dynamite line every day, "My lips are KILLING me! Gah!"

Haha! Here, too! I wonder if chapped lips are such a big emergency at home. Somehow, I doubt it.

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An attorney told me yesterday of a DSS case (no names mentioned), where one parent is charging the other with medical neglect over chapped lips. What a World, what a world

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Specializes in School nursing.
And their idea of very sick and ours is so totally out of sync.....

This can mean "This student has a snotty nose and he is here because, well, eww...germs."

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Although this provided a grand opportunity kidz, I'm just gonna "let it go, let it go." Just because I'm such a nice guy.

Dammit, now I can't put my 2 cents in.

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Although this provided a grand opportunity kidz, I'm just gonna "let it go, let it go." Just because I'm such a nice guy.

Tell me at lunch next Wednesday when we are sitting at our pink-free table.

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Tell me at lunch next Wednesday when we are sitting at our pink-free table.

DASA!

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.
It IS dry lips week!!

I've been doing the Napoleon Dynamite line every day, "My lips are KILLING me! Gah!"

oh i gotta post it now!!

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