minor complaints

[Flare]

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.

[zombieghoast]

I don't necessarily mind the chapped lips cause it is something for me to do but I never chart it. I really hate it when teachers send down a kid with a cold and a note saying they need to go home. It's a lot easier for the kid to stay home than me to send them home.

[NutmeggeRN, BSN]

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

Far, your 2 cents is worth a million bucks, every time!!!!

[MrNurse(x2), ADN]

Bonus!

[Postpartum RN]

I really like reading your posts, all you school nurses. I am often shocked by the reasons students come to see you guys...even getting pads/tampons? Hmm...free right? It's just all so...I guess "different" to me..

When I was in school, I never visited the nurse, not even once in all of those 12 years! I probably didn't even know there was a school nurse until I got into high school?....

[Farawyn]

Far, your 2 cents is worth a million bucks, every time!!!!

Sometimes you have to let that low hanging fruit ripen a bit before picking.

I'll let it lie. This time.

[Farawyn]

Double post. Eager trigger finger.

[NanaPoo]

Just borrow some from the school nurse. I know she's got like 5 of em in her drawer!

I'm not gonna borrow hers, ya sicko!

[NanaPoo]

Borrow one from the nurse. You know she's got like five in her drawer.

I'm not borrowing one from her, you sicko!

[Supernrse01, BSN]

Haven't we all?

#uncomfortabletruth

I literally just spit my coffee everywhere!

[Supernrse01, BSN]

Haven't we all?

#uncomfortabletruth

I seriously just spit my coffee everywhere!

[Penelope_Pitstop, BSN, RN]

I'm not a school nurse. I work with adult psych patients in an outpatient office/community/case management setting.

However...

A few weeks ago a fully grown adult woman who is not even my patient stuck her head in my office, asked if I was a nurse, then asked me for vaseline for her chapped lips. I told her I didn't have any and she thought I was lying to her.

[jadelpn, LPN, EMT-B]

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

Chapped lips cracked and BLEEDING ewwwwwwwwwwwwww

On the other side of it, reminds me of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" that instead of windex, there's a whole lot of bleach wipes and sanitizer spritzing going on......