Most Frustrating Thing ?

JenTheSchoolRN, BSN, RN · Oct 1, 2014

I love these! I can relate to them all. We need our own set of nursing diagnoses specific to school nursing.Love the paralysis after vomiting.
How about these:
1.Teacher Induced Pseudo-Illness(student has no symptoms until teacher points out he/she does not look well).
2. Milk it syndrome (started out as a valid injury/illness but does not know when to stop. Key feature, need for an ice pack 12 times daily for 4 months.
Anybody else want to add something???

Insert School Vacation Here-itis:

stomach pain r/t school break in two days AEB student's report, lack of temp/nausea/vomiting/diarrhea, ability to eat and chatter actively in nurse's office about break plans...

The Monday and Tuesday before Christmas break will be fun this year :).

coughdrop.2.go, BSN, RN · Oct 1, 2014

Oh my gosh, I think your student's mother is one of the teachers at my school! "I just heard about this scary new virus, WHAT are YOU doing to keep our kids healthy?!" Well for one thing I'm not scaring them half to death . . .
And now that there's a confirmed ebola in Texas, I just know I'm going to have teachers convinced someone here has it. Because, y'know, Virginia and Texas share a lot of border area.

OMG I had a teacher almost tackle me as I came in my office this morning ranting and raving about Ebola and that it will reach California in a week. I just stared at her. All I could do from rolling my eyes so hard I would get a migraine or laughing. I calmly explained that Ebola is not a NEW virus and doesn't spread like in the movies. When it reaches the Arizona border come back and see me K. Just wash your hands.

Speebles · Oct 1, 2014

I took a student that had been hit in back of head with basketball, passed out in locker room, c/o numbness & tingling in all ext., with nausea, and unable to get parents..... ER dr didn't think I should have called 911 and made statement a couple of times that all I do is "put on bandaides". I'm sure he would have felt different if it had been one of his children, which are both at my school.

OldDude · Oct 1, 2014

Ah, Ebola...I'm almost 400 miles from Dallas and you'd think the Ebola patient was across town. This is gonna get wild.

JenTheSchoolRN, BSN, RN · Oct 1, 2014

I am waiting for the first student to come into my office telling me they have Ebola and need to go home.

allnurses Guide · Oct 2, 2014

Oh my gosh, I think your student's mother is one of the teachers at my school! "I just heard about this scary new virus, WHAT are YOU doing to keep our kids healthy?!" Well for one thing I'm not scaring them half to death . . .
And now that there's a confirmed ebola in Texas, I just know I'm going to have teachers convinced someone here has it. Because, y'know, Virginia and Texas share a lot of border area.

So, the funny thing is . . . . . the information about avoidance is the same for flu and everything else. Wash your hands. Stay home if you are sick. Etc.

The school nurse does not have a magic wand. :sarcastic:

mc3, ASN, RN · Oct 2, 2014

So, the funny thing is . . . . . the information about avoidance is the same for flu and everything else. Wash your hands. Stay home if you are sick. Etc.
The school nurse does not have a magic wand.

Oh yes I do too!!! Just ask anyone!!:)

mc3:snurse:

allnurses Guide · Oct 2, 2014

Of course a child died today . . . . and the way it is presented is the child had enterovirus D68.

First US child dies from enterovirus D68

Then you get into the body of the story and you find the child also had a staph infection. And you find that there is no link, as of yet, between the virus and the paralysis some kids get.

How about how many kids die from the flu or from pertussis? Way more. And people won't get their kids immunized.

Yet they'll get all hysterical over this. When there is no way to prevent it except hand washing.

I'm not looking forward to work tomorrow. :banghead:

100kids, BSN, RN · Oct 2, 2014

My administrator asked me about ebola yesterday and what we should do. I almost laughed but I kept it together.

T-Bird78 · Oct 2, 2014

Epi-pen pricing is all over the place. Full price for a 2 pack is $311, I paid $34 with insurance (last week) and the coupon saves you $100 on the 2 pack (not sure if it can be used with insurance).

EpiPen coupons can be used with insurance EXCEPT government plans--Medicare, Medicaid and its varieties, Tricare. I work in allergy so we're filling those forms out for school all the time. If we dx a food/insect allergy I always ask if there's an EpiPen/Auvi Q and write a new rx for it. You'd be surprised how many people don't believe in food allergies. I had a friend THIS WEEK feed their food allergy child various dairy products to see if their toddler had outgrown the milk allergy! NO NO NO!

allnurses Guide · Oct 2, 2014

EpiPen coupons can be used with insurance EXCEPT government plans--Medicare, Medicaid and its varieties, Tricare. I work in allergy so we're filling those forms out for school all the time. If we dx a food/insect allergy I always ask if there's an EpiPen/Auvi Q and write a new rx for it. You'd be surprised how many people don't believe in food allergies. I had a friend THIS WEEK feed their food allergy child various dairy products to see if their toddler had outgrown the milk allergy! NO NO NO!

I had a very nice mom tell me her insurance won't pay for an epi-pen and so she was wondering if it would be ok not to send one to school with her highly allergic-to-bees son?

Anyone have this experience - that insurance won't cover at least part of the epi-pen?

mamahuff · Oct 2, 2014

I am the nurse for 3 rural districts. The secretaries take care of the health issues when I am not in their building. I actually gave each a small magic wand. They keep it on their desks, in the pen/pencil can. Yesss, they do it use it, and it works on certain occasions. :)