please reassure me...

EnoughWithTheIce · Mar 4, 2019

54 minutes ago, tining said:
They don't know how to leave a message either.

They will look at me and "what do I say?" Well, tell them the same thing you told me honey buns!!

We have a phone on the front desk counter that students are allowed to use. Rarely do they leave a message, and the ones that do - parents rarely ever listen to it anyway. They just see the general school phone number and then call the poor receptionist and think she should know!! Then, it gets transferred to me and when I say I didn't call - they expect me to know!!

CanIcallmymom, BSN, RN · Mar 5, 2019

Even my highschoolers don't know. It surprises me that I have to coach them to put it under their tongue and then *gasp* close their mouth! Insane.

palli · Mar 5, 2019

Or doing a vision screening.

Me: here cover one eye with this (hand them the paddle)

them: they cover one eye with the paddle and close the other eye

me: seriously?

k1p1ssk, BSN, RN · Mar 5, 2019

For oral temps, I tell them "this [the probe] goes/stays UNDER your tongue and then close your mouth like its a straw". This language works like a charm!

Keeperofbandages, LPN · Mar 5, 2019

I have tympanic here. They do not know how to answer a phone properly, and most don't know there parents phone numbers either.

BunnyBunnyBSNRN, ASN, BSN · Mar 5, 2019

I love how they stick their tongue out and wiggle it around at me when I try to take their temp. ?

MrNurse(x2), ADN · Mar 5, 2019

Why I have a tympanic, worth the $38 dollars at CVS.

yaRNthrower, BSN, RN · Mar 5, 2019

I am at junior high and I have a tympanic too.

I am telling them that it will go in their ear yet they still open their mouths ?

And then we have a nice giggle.

I still have to tell some of them to blow their noses. Then they look at my like I am a genius because they can now breathe.

NurseSpeedy, ADN, LPN, RN · Mar 6, 2019

Not a school nurse but a mom with a school age child.

I put the clear disposable protection sheath over the oral themometer after wiping it down with rubbing alcohol and go to check my own oral temp. My daughter gives me a disgusted look and says “Eeeew, daddy puts that under my arm!”....asides from working in the hospital I have not encountered oral thermometers at work or as a patient. Instead, I’ve seen the temporal ones at the pediatricians office and most frequently that stupid ear (tympanic) thermometer that is never accurate-if it was I’d be 100-102 F on any given day. I’d hate to check it when it’s actually elevated-would probably get an error code.

Sometimes the old version works better than the new-if only we could teach everyone how to properly use it.

EnoughWithTheIce · Mar 7, 2019

On 3/4/2019 at 10:25 AM, cid1 said:
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.

I just thought of this post!!! LOL!

A girl came in grabbed a pad, went in my bathroom, came out and went on her merry way with no complaint. A few minutes later, mom calls wanting me to call her back down because she is having problems with her pad. I call her down, "it won't stick." She swears she took the paper strip off the sticky part, but I have my doubts.

She just HAS to call mom back, so I tell her to use my phone "dial 9 first." She tells me it won't go through so I tell her dial 9, then 1 - a lot of our parent's numbers are long distance. Still can't do it, so I call and hand the receiver over. Kid just looks at it. "Say hello to your mom." They are chatting when our SRO comes down to ask me if I called 911. I am like no, but I bet she did by accident.

After 472 minutes on phone with mom, she asks to go back to class to get her backpack (she has tampons in there) and her phone so she can go in my bathroom and mom wants to walk her through it. Whatever, I am passing meds. She comes out another 357 minutes later and stated grandma is going to bring me my special small pads, these are sooooo big. They are the thin ones. I bet grandma will bring pantyliners which means, in 2 hours - she will be back with an overflow.

I look in the trash, sure enough that original pad I gave her still has the paper backing on. Now, this is her 3rd period, not her first.

I JUST CAN'T!

lifelearningrn, BSN, RN · Mar 7, 2019

On ‎3‎/‎4‎/‎2019 at 4:09 PM, EnoughWithTheIce said:
They will look at me and "what do I say?" Well, tell them the same thing you told me honey buns!!
We have a phone on the front desk counter that students are allowed to use. Rarely do they leave a message, and the ones that do - parents rarely ever listen to it anyway. They just see the general school phone number and then call the poor receptionist and think she should know!! Then, it gets transferred to me and when I say I didn't call - they expect me to know!!

Yep. We have this happening daily. Everyone in the office answers phone calls, including me. We get calls all day, "Yes, I have a missed call!"... 9/10 times the teachers are the ones who called, and we have no idea what the call is about. I usually tell them, "If they didn't leave a message, and it's important, they'll call back".. that is usually enough to get them off the phone to check their messages. lol

UrbanHealthRN, BSN, RN · Mar 7, 2019

33 minutes ago, EnoughWithTheIce said:
I just thought of this post!!! LOL!
A girl came in grabbed a pad, went in my bathroom, came out and went on her merry way with no complaint. A few minutes later, mom calls wanting me to call her back down because she is having problems with her pad. I call her down, "it won't stick." She swears she took the paper strip off the sticky part, but I have my doubts.
She just HAS to call mom back, so I tell her to use my phone "dial 9 first." She tells me it won't go through so I tell her dial 9, then 1 - a lot of our parent's numbers are long distance. Still can't do it, so I call and hand the receiver over. Kid just looks at it. "Say hello to your mom." They are chatting when our SRO comes down to ask me if I called 911. I am like no, but I bet she did by accident.
After 472 minutes on phone with mom, she asks to go back to class to get her backpack (she has tampons in there) and her phone so she can go in my bathroom and mom wants to walk her through it. Whatever, I am passing meds. She comes out another 357 minutes later and stated grandma is going to bring me my special small pads, these are sooooo big. They are the thin ones. I bet grandma will bring pantyliners which means, in 2 hours - she will be back with an overflow.
I look in the trash, sure enough that original pad I gave her still has the paper backing on. Now, this is her 3rd period, not her first.
I JUST CAN'T!

Maybe it's just me, but I can't imagine my 12 year old self ever wanting to talk to my mom that much about my period and period products. Not that we'd have much to talk about- mine wouldn't even let me use tampons until later in high school, and those were the days when tampons were so big you could stop arterial bleeds with them. Whatever happened to girls just taking their mom's period products for like 6 months until they finally get the courage/finally remember to let them know?