Nosebleeds

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Soooo...Would it be snarky of me to send this out to teachers? REALLY tired of blood covered children coming in.

Dear Teachers,

My apologies in advance for even having to say this, but please, if your student has a bloody nose, have them grab a tissue and pinch their nose before they head down to see me. Many have shown up at my door looking like they are auditioning for a remake of "Carrie."

Thank you to those of you who already do this.

Your Nurse

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.

oh, i feel your pain and have thought about sending something so similar many times. I usually just call the teacher and ask if they need tissues and when they ask why i tell them that the hallway and subsequently my office now looks like a crime scene because the child with the profusely bleeding nose left without a tissue. I swear common sense is a commodity running short these days.

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Specializes in Pediatrics/Developmental Pediatrics/Research/psych.

Oh. But didn't you know that a nose bleed is an emergency? In an emergency, you can't expect the teacher to waste time on something as trivial as a tissue

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Oh. But didn't you know that a nose bleed is an emergency? In an emergency, you can't expect the teacher to waste time on something as trivial as a tissue

Not when there's hysterics to be had!!

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Thankfully all my nose bleeds come down with a tissue at their nose but I'm always amazed at how a nosebleed is a full blown EMERGENCY. Seriously? Have you never had one or seen one? I swear 1/2 the time by the time they reach me it has fully stopped even though the teacher swore they were going to bleed out.

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Well, folks...If it happens again, I will send that email! :cheeky:

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

I had this happen on picture day! Poor girl with her pretty yellow dress comes in dripping all over. Thankfully hydrogen peroxide saved the day :)

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Specializes in kids.

On my walki..."Nurse XYZ" There is a student at the front desk who is BLEEDING!!!!!!!!!!

This nurse drops everything she is doing (usually her lunch) and goes to the front office, where said child is sitting with a tissue....

Come on already!....if there is a traumatic amputation, give me shout, otherwise can I please have 20 mins to eat? Pretty please? You did, you have the opportunity to go out and walk everyday at lunch for 30 mins. I'm lucky I get to pee once during the day.

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.

Yes!! This plays out over and over!! and not just when i'm trying to eat. I'll be attending to some sort of other crisis in the building and get paged. "We need you in the Elementary office right away!!" I tell them i'm tied up but still clear up my other crisis or at least get it to a pause point to find that I have a third grader with a nosebleed or a pencil shaving in their eye. Really? As I hand them a tissue or direct them to the lavatory to rinse their eye - Apparently no one else could think of that.

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Then there is the picked/bloody pimple that a student can't wash off in class.

I give ALL teachers band aids, and they can't be bothered. They would rather a child miss instructional time for a paper cut or pimple.

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Specializes in School Nursing, Hospice,Med-Surg.

Ugh...mine's the opposite. Kids come rushing to the clinic with a "horrible nosebleed" then they pull the tissue away with one teeny drop of blood. I think they are mostly traumatized by my unimpressed face.

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My teachers are too young to get the "Carrie" reference. I was going to dress up as Nurse Ratchet last year for Halloween but, when I mentioned it to my 34 year old principal, he looked at me blankly.

I personally love the emergency bloody nose that turns out to be a red booger.

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