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.

[NutmeggeRN, BSN]

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

Sure you can, I double dog dare ya!

[mc3, ASN, RN]

Our district has indicated that repeated lice issues like this could warrant a call to CPS, falls under medical neglect.

CPS here will not accept any reports for lice unless there are open sores😒

[mc3, ASN, RN]

Way down here, CPS only gets involved if the kids have absenteeism because they are not coming to school or if they have festering head lesions; not for recurrent head lice only. Our district policy is absences associated with lice are unexcused.

Same here...parents don't seem to care, and we rarely take parents to truancy court.

[bsyrn, ASN, RN]

I had a student who had an itchy arm so she scratched it. Her teacher sent her down for.......yup,

you guessed it, scratches on her arm. You can't make this stuff up! I think we all need to get together and write a book! Could be a best seller...

[mc3, ASN, RN]

Here, CPS doesn't care about head lice. They consider it a nuisance rather than a medical issue. Had a student last year that missed 2 consecutive weeks of school due to head lice. We called, they would not take the case.

I am personally tired of being the "lice police." Kids complaining "so and so has lice" asking to come down for head checks, etc. I am so done with it. Teachers are just as bad! (Lice phobic.)

I am SO over it!! Lice Tuesday has continued through Lice Thursday. More nasty parent calls, threats of lawsuits, I have a "vendetta", etc etc ad nauseaum. And, or course, they couldn't come pick them up.

Amongst all this, I get one teacher send down someone (actually, many do...) with a "toothache" because the tooth is loose. Umm, loose teeth do hurt! She actually wanted me to call the parent. To tell them the loose tooth hurts.....

Later on, I had a teacher come up to me. We had the following conversation:

teacher: Hmm, my throat feels funny. Kinda sore. What do you think it is?

me: OK

teacher: What do I do for a sore throat?

me: what have you done in the past?

teacher: I don't remember. It's been so long.

me: Okaaayy, how about some hot tea with honey?

teacher: Oh, that sounds good! I think I'll do that!)

me: (sigh)

I am, in all seriousness, thinking I need to be not doing this much longer...

[Farawyn]

I am SO over it!! Lice Tuesday has continued through Lice Thursday. More nasty parent calls, threats of lawsuits, I have a "vendetta", etc etc ad nauseaum. And, or course, they couldn't come pick them up.

Amongst all this, I get one teacher send down someone (actually, many do...) with a "toothache" because the tooth is loose. Umm, loose teeth do hurt! She actually wanted me to call the parent. To tell them the loose tooth hurts.....

Later on, I had a teacher come up to me. We had the following conversation:

teacher: Hmm, my throat feels funny. Kinda sore. What do you think it is?

me: OK

teacher: What do I do for a sore throat?

me: what have you done in the past?

teacher: I don't remember. It's been so long.

me: Okaaayy, how about some hot tea with honey?

teacher: Oh, that sounds good! I think I'll do that!)

me: (sigh)

I am, in all seriousness, thinking I need to be not doing this much longer...

M'okay.

WORK all Summer.

[mc3, ASN, RN]

M'okay.

WORK all Summer.

I know, I know. But some days I just don't have it in me anyore, 'ya know?😞

[Farawyn]

((((mc3))))

S'matter?

[mc3, ASN, RN]

Will pm you later on ok?

[mc3, ASN, RN]

((((mc3))))

S'matter?

Thanks for the ((( ))). I needed it...

[SnowyJ, RN]

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I am SO over it!! Lice Tuesday has continued through Lice Thursday. More nasty parent calls, threats of lawsuits, I have a "vendetta", etc etc ad nauseaum. And, or course, they couldn't come pick them up.

[OldDude]

Hear ya Snowy, I had a teacher come in this morning in a "lice crisis." Telling me she was going to be sending kids in from her class for me to check for head lice and wanting a lice letter she would send home to the parents. She's worked here for quiet a few years so I guess she just woke up in a new world this morning. I told her I wasn't going to do that and she wasn't going to do that and lice are a nuisance but that's about it and we send out parent reminders with the ABCs of lice detection, treatment, prevention 3 times per year and that was all we were going to be doing about head lice in her class or anywhere else on this campus. Anyway she left crying and told me I was going to be on her **** list for a long time. Of course, I'll lose a lot of sleep over that.