Pacer Test (May the odds be ever in my favor)

[ruby_jane, BSN, RN]

Pacer testing today....with a small amount of fall out but now, at the end of the day, the middle school kids are absolutely, positively, falling apart! Everyone thinks they're dying.

[yaRNthrower, BSN, RN]

911!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CAREFLIGHT!

ICU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tell them to get their affairs in order.

[ruby_jane, BSN, RN]

What I want to say: You're not dying, sweet pea. You're deconditioned.

What I am saying: Here, have some water.

[Amethya]

What I want to say: Get gud scrub

What I am saying: Get gud scrub. Here's some water. Suck it up.

[EnoughWithTheIce]

Just think of all the children we have saved from the jaws of pacer test death!!! Hundreds, maybe thousands.

I was really upset a few years ago when the pacer test was the same day as 7th grade screenings (din't know until the day of). I almost needed the AED myself.....

[ruby_jane, BSN, RN]

13 minutes ago, EnoughWithTheIce said:

I almost needed the AED myself.....

I am laughing so hard under my desk right now.

[EnoughWithTheIce]

11 minutes ago, ruby_jane said:

I am laughing so hard under my desk right now.

I swear before I retire, I want to fake pass out in the hallway and see what happens!!! "OMG, she passed out, go get the nurse!!! Oh no, that is the nurse. Call the other nurse 14 miles away at the other school to come quickly but make sure you do not tell her why!!"

I have had visions of being loaded into the back of an ambulance and students running after me trying to shove their passes under my oxygen mask and teachers asking if I could take their blood pressure before I leave.

[yaRNthrower, BSN, RN]

Now I am laughing under my desk too.

[NutmeggeRN, BSN]

17 hours ago, ruby_jane said:

What I want to say: You're not dying, sweet pea. You're deconditioned.

What I am saying: Here, have some water.

You are too kind, I tell them they are deconditioned...in the nicest way possible!!

[BunnyBunnyBSNRN, ASN, BSN]

And again:

https://allnurses.com/school-nurses/the-pacer-test-1093918.html

(posted this a couple of years ago)

[ruby_jane, BSN, RN]

56 minutes ago, BunnyBunnyBSNRN said:

And again:

https://allnurses.com/school-nurses/the-pacer-test-1093918.html

(posted this a couple of years ago)

I REMEMBER. And again, laughing under my desk...

[BunnyBunnyBSNRN, ASN, BSN]

4 minutes ago, ruby_jane said:

I REMEMBER. And again, laughing under my desk...

At least you didn't snort coffee this time! (was that you last time?)