Monkey Bars

[BluebellRN]

Are the bane of my existence. In the past couple weeks I've had two broken arms from monkey bar falls. With just a day and half between me and spring break, if another kid falls, I might go tear the thing down myself!

On the positive, the ER DR commented to mom that it was smart of whoever splinted the kid's arm with a magazine. Kid told the doc it was the school nurse. ?

[SmallTownNurseSWL]

On 3/27/2019 at 8:58 AM, BluebellRN said:

On the positive, the ER DR commented to mom that it was smart of whoever splinted the kid's arm with a magazine. Kid told the doc it was the school nurse. ?

Any special way to use the magazine to splint?

[OldDude]

1 minute ago, SmallTownNurseSWL said:

Any special way to use the magazine to splint?

I apologize in advance for this but I just can't help it!! If it's a Media magazine put the cover inward...?

[Wuzzie]

3 minutes ago, SmallTownNurseSWL said:

Any special way to use the magazine to splint?

["nursy", RN]

23 hours ago, OldDude said:

Our playground doesn't get mulch (engineered wood fiber) added to it until we hear Chinese music playing from underground.

Best line I've heard EVER! ?

[meloyello234, ADN, RN]

5 minutes ago, OldDude said:

That's a scary story...I'm glad there was a happy ending!

Welcome to the club!!

Thank you! I'm so excited to share stuff now!!

Yes it was a happy ending! He's almost 30 and has had no issues since.. by the time they had reached Texas Children's, it had miraculously (doctor's word per my mom) popped back into its correct position. We all still believe there was angel intervention because he should have been paralyzed and somehow came out of it with only a neck brace he wore for 6 months.

[OldDude]

4 minutes ago, meloyello234 said:

Thank you! I'm so excited to share stuff now!!

Yes it was a happy ending! He's almost 30 and has had no issues since.. by the time they had reached Texas Children's, it had miraculously (doctor's word per my mom) popped back into its correct position. We all still believe there was angel intervention because he should have been paralyzed and somehow came out of it with only a neck brace he wore for 6 months.

Hmmm...I recall seeing an xray that was being circulated around the ERs in Texas about 20 years ago...kid walked into an ER who ended up with a high cervical step off...quite impressive to look at. I wonder if that was your brother?

[JadedCPN, BSN, RN]

I'm an inpatient peds nurse, not school nurse, but I love reading this forum. Let me just say that even as an inpatient nurse, monkey bars are the BANE of my existence too! Every single time we get a fracture, we say "those damn monkey bars." Every. Time.

[meloyello234, ADN, RN]

1 hour ago, OldDude said:

Hmmm...I recall seeing an xray that was being circulated around the ERs in Texas about 20 years ago...kid walked into an ER who ended up with a high cervical step off...quite impressive to look at. I wonder if that was your brother?

We're from Houston, so I would guess that it's very possible..

[CampyCamp, RN]

20 hours ago, meloyello234 said:

Like I said, his only symptom was that his neck was sore. I cringe now thinking about it because the PE teacher at the time told him to just roll his neck around.. eek!

Eeek. Indeed. Depending on what I was told and the child's presentation, I would have felt for swelling or step off and then told him to rub it when it hurts. I hate knowing that we can't catch everything.

[brownbook]

Not a school nurse, just a mother/nurse. But geeze...should we keep the kids indoors sitting at their desks all recess? I have fond memories of twirling round and round on the monkey bars.

I know Bill Crosby has unfortunately become a bad name to bring up, but I remember one of his lines....when he was a kid all the neighborhood kids played in an empty lot, almost junk yard, full of left over concrete slabs and wood scraps, nails sticking out, etc. very few injuries. The city put in a playground and kids were breaking bones every week!

[nursecolley, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN, EMT-P]

Our school has some type of 'glider' that is supposed to allow the kids to hang onto as they 'fly' about 10 feet. One day they stacked milk crates they found beside the kitchen door and stood up on them, flinging the handles to each other. One fifth-grader ended up with it impaled in her forehead. My question was 'Where was the supervision?" She had about 4 staples in her head. I wish they would take that down.

Most of our kids play on the turf football field. I've had everything from dislocated kneecaps to concussions from that thing. The track around it is concrete/asphalt, so I hate recess now.

[tining, BSN, RN]

On 3/29/2019 at 6:57 PM, brownbook said:

Not a school nurse, just a mother/nurse. But geeze...should we keep the kids indoors sitting at their desks all recess? I have fond memories of twirling round and round on the monkey bars.

I know Bill Crosby has unfortunately become a bad name to bring up, but I remember one of his lines....when he was a kid all the neighborhood kids played in an empty lot, almost junk yard, full of left over concrete slabs and wood scraps, nails sticking out, etc. very few injuries. The city put in a playground and kids were breaking bones every week!

Cosby!