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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.

"Lice crisis." :woot: LOL!

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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.

She just wanted an excuse to see you on Naked Friday.

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Naked Friday???:o Is that like Pink Shirt Wednesday????? Do we have to be naked to sit at the popular girls table on Friday???

:blink: (bag covering entire body)...

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Naked Friday???:o Is that like Pink Shirt Wednesday????? Do we have to be naked to sit at the popular girls table on Friday???

:blink: (bag covering entire body)...

The rule is that you have to be naked. BUT to fit into those pesky dress codes, you can wear clothes on top of the naked.

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OMG! Nothing but obscure complaints today and a kid trying to force himself into vomiting by violently coughing over and over. I wanna go home.

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Specializes in Home Health,Dialysis, MDS, School Nurse.

Just looked out my door (I can see all the way down my hallway) and saw 3 1st grade girls laughing, bumping into each other, almost running - then they come to my door "we all have tummyaches". Nope. Sorry. No one laughs all the way down the hall and then comes in here. Go back to class. They were pretty stunned, but left. I called their teacher and told her - she said they probably didn't want to go out to recess because its cold. Suck it up buttercups! Not in the mood today!

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Specializes in School Nurse. Having conversations with littles..
OMG! Nothing but obscure complaints today and a kid trying to force himself into vomiting by violently coughing over and over. I wanna go home.

I am going home kidz. In T-minus 18 minutes. The roads are already slick!! EEEEeeeek!

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I am going home kidz. In T-minus 18 minutes. The roads are already slick!! EEEEeeeek!

Be careful out there

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OMG! Nothing but obscure complaints today and a kid trying to force himself into vomiting by violently coughing over and over. I wanna go home.

First year I was a school nurse I had a kid force himself to throw up after lunch every. single. day. I watched him do so in my trash can. Student would eat have the lunch, force vomit, than eat second half of lunch as if vomit never happened. But kid had a parent that would pick him up for a papercut. And the parent wondered why the student was failing every single afternoon class...

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Specializes in School Nursing.

This has been going on for last Month...

Spina bifida student (7th)grade, has some issues with unsteady gait. Teachers and Aides requesting for her wheelchair to be brought to school to use for when it's raining. No big deal, but Now the Aides are saying they have never been "trained" to use a wheelchair, and the nurse should have to be the one to push her around, etc! The School Nurse RN, is trying to avoid this issue like a hot potato. Which somehow leaves me in the middle, and Aides are calling/texting the parent saying the student has to use the wheel chair on campus, and all sorts of other things that I don't feel they should be even contacting the parent for! :grumpy:

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This has been going on for last Month...

Spina bifida student (7th)grade, has some issues with unsteady gait. Teachers and Aides requesting for her wheelchair to be brought to school to use for when it's raining. No big deal, but Now the Aides are saying they have never been "trained" to use a wheelchair, and the nurse should have to be the one to push her around, etc! The School Nurse RN, is trying to avoid this issue like a hot potato. Which somehow leaves me in the middle, and Aides are calling/texting the parent saying the student has to use the wheel chair on campus, and all sorts of other things that I don't feel they should be even contacting the parent for! :grumpy:

Has the student fallen? The student is in the 7th grade and now it is an issue about mobility? The issue sounds like the aides don't want to do extra work if they are complaining about not being trained. The training would be under 5 minutes.

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This has been going on for last Month...

Spina bifida student (7th)grade, has some issues with unsteady gait. Teachers and Aides requesting for her wheelchair to be brought to school to use for when it's raining. No big deal, but Now the Aides are saying they have never been "trained" to use a wheelchair, and the nurse should have to be the one to push her around, etc! The School Nurse RN, is trying to avoid this issue like a hot potato. Which somehow leaves me in the middle, and Aides are calling/texting the parent saying the student has to use the wheel chair on campus, and all sorts of other things that I don't feel they should be even contacting the parent for! :grumpy:

I would ask for a few minutes at the next staff meeting and train them, 5 minutes, done. I would think that a 7th grader could move around campus on their own in a w/c with little to no assist, unless of course there are other nonphysical issues as well.

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