please reassure me...

[jess11RN]

That I'm not the only one with middles schoolers who can't figure out what to do when I go to take their temperature orally.

Happy Monday ?

[EnoughWithTheIce]

YOU. ARE.NOT!!!

Most of mine look like a deer in headlights when I go to take it. And the sublingual aspect, some look at me like I have asked them to do some sort of exotic gymnastic move. SAD!

[jess11RN]

4 minutes ago, EnoughWithTheIce said:

YOU. ARE.NOT!!!

Most of mine look like a deer in headlights when I go to take it. And the sublingual aspect, some look at me like I have asked them to do some sort of exotic gymnastic move. SAD!

Haha! Thanks for the laugh.

[GdBSN, RN]

I have HS students who are dumbfounded when I ask them to put it under their tongue.

[cid1]

Or how to dial a regular corded phone...what do I do to make the call go through, where is the back button, deer in head lights when I tell them to use the phone on the wall.

[ruby_jane, BSN, RN]

They don't know the oral thermometer, don't know their parent's phone number, cannot dial on a desk phone....it's all true!

[aprilmoss]

It's times like this I wish I still had kept a rectal thermometer (or the red probe form my old W-A electronic) ?

[BrisketRN, BSN, RN]

1 hour ago, ruby_jane said:

They don't know the oral thermometer, don't know their parent's phone number, cannot dial on a desk phone....it's all true!

I asked an elementary kid if she knew her moms phone number (in our system each parent had 3+ phone numbers listed). She stares at me blankly and says "I know the password on my moms phone."

[BunnyBunnyBSNRN, ASN, BSN]

My favourite is the ones (elem) that don't know how to talk on a phone. I'll hand them the phone and have to put it to their ear and then say, "Say 'hello', Mom doesn't know you're there if you don't talk".

[tining, BSN, RN]

Well that's something . . .

[RatherBHiking, BSN, RN]

Yes I noticed the same thing!! You want me to hold that in my mouth? Oh the horror! Plus the phone, on my gosh say HELLO already! How do you not know this! I understand them not knowing their parent's phone number since they change a lot. Different times for sure!

[tining, BSN, RN]

They don't know how to leave a message either.