I get an urgent call to go to one of my preschool classrooms. I go down there.
One of the paras, who is a very large lady. (My nurse-brain is seeing all kinds of risk factors!!!) She asks me, "what would you tell somebody that had chest pain, was coughing a lot, and coughing up blood for a long time last night?"
I told her that they needed to go to the ER last night.
She said..."well, it was me. I gave myself until 3:00, but it stopped. But, my chest still hurts today. I just figured it was acid reflux."
I explained to her that she doesn't need to be at school, she didn't seem to think this was necessary.
I said, at least then call your dr. right now. I re-iterated...that she does not need to be here and that sometimes people blame acid reflux on much more serious things.
She headed back into her classroom, and said..." Oh, I was just hoping you would tell me that it was acid reflux and that this is normal.'
I looked her square in the eye, and told her that she would never hear those words come out of my mouth, and that she needs to call her dr. She said she would, I said...In the next 5 minutes.
I came back to my office and waited about 20 minutes. Called back to her classroom. One of the teachers answers and said that the para doesn't want to call the dr. and doesn't want to do anything about it.
I said that she didn't need to be here, and that I am going to mention it to our administrator. Soooooo...that is what I did.
I guess my vent is....IF THEY DON"T WANT THE NURSE"S OPINION>>>>>>DO NOT ASK!!
Sorry...this sounds kind of harsh...but I just had to get it off my chest.
