"I feel like I'm gonna puke"

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These are my standard answers to this after determining no fever and they don't look green, pale or sweaty:

"And....?"

"What would you like me to do about that?"

"What are you looking for?"

"I can't send home every kid that says they feel like they are going to puke. There would be no one left in school."

I'm bored with these answers and looking to shake it up a bit.

What do you say when not-really-sick kids tell you they feel like they are going to puke?

Specializes in School nursing.
She hates forums of all kinds. I find them highly informative and enjoyable.

She has never spent time with us, clearly :).

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.
She has never spent time with us, clearly :).

No doubt

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

Hahahahaha! Are you school nurses even WORKING right now? Or sneaking in these posts in between paperwork and puke-threatening kids?

I love reading this thread! I am NOT jumping on y'all, I promise! (Far'wyn, tell'em I'm not!) Just yanking your chain(s).

It's a goooood thing it takes all kinds to make the world go 'round; if I had to work as a school nurse, I might get the Screamin' Mimi's. Give me a crabby, cranky and/or dementia'd old person to take care of...any time!

I never enjoyed BEING a kid in school, and didn't appreciate too many of my (mean, snotty) classmates, so spending the day WORKING in that situation would be a particular nightmare to me.

I think I was one of those kids who could've used a screening like achurley mentioned at the top of the page; HOWEVER, a 'modern-day' screening as opposed to the one I might have gotten in the 1950's when I was in grade-school.

Who knows what kind of medicine I might have ended up being prescribed back then, after the screening sent me right to a psych doc! Back then I think they used things like Phenobarb, Thorazine, and Miltown, often referred to as "Mother's Little Helper" by the housewives of America. Imagine a child on Thorazine? Talk about your ZOMBIES!

The only dealings I had with our school nurse was during the mass-injections we lined up for. She was a very no-nonsense nurse!

At any rate, once the whole grade-school fiasco was over with, I was quite relieved to be moving on. In later years I realized I had been gifted with a character-building life experience. But I never felt warm and fuzzy about kids after all that! So, peds or school-nursing? Fugghedaboudit!

You guys rock! I am serious!

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Hahahahaha! Are you school nurses even WORKING right now? Or sneaking in these posts in between paperwork and puke-threatening kids?

I love reading this thread! I am NOT jumping on y'all, I promise! (Far'wyn, tell'em I'm not!) Just yanking your chain(s).

It's a goooood thing it takes all kinds to make the world go 'round; if I had to work as a school nurse, I might get the Screamin' Mimi's. Give me a crabby, cranky and/or dementia'd old person to take care of...any time!

I never enjoyed BEING a kid in school, and didn't appreciate too many of my (mean, snotty) classmates, so spending the day WORKING in that situation would be a particular nightmare to me.

I think I was one of those kids who could've used a screening like achurley mentioned at the top of the page; HOWEVER, a 'modern-day' screening as opposed to the one I might have gotten in the 1950's when I was in grade-school.

Who knows what kind of medicine I might have ended up being prescribed back then, after the screening sent me right to a psych doc! Back then I think they used things like Phenobarb, Thorazine, and Miltown, often referred to as "Mother's Little Helper" by the housewives of America. Imagine a child on Thorazine? Talk about your ZOMBIES!

The only dealings I had with our school nurse was during the mass-injections we lined up for. She was a very no-nonsense nurse!

At any rate, once the whole grade-school fiasco was over with, I was quite relieved to be moving on. In later years I realized I had been gifted with a character-building life experience. But I never felt warm and fuzzy about kids after all that! So, peds or school-nursing? Fugghedaboudit!

You guys rock! I am serious!

*slips you the $10 under the desk*

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.

SSSHHH!! Having a forum open that says "School nurse" in the header make it look like i'm doing very important work between my charting and parade of malingerers. Now don't go spilling my secrets ;)

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.
SSSHHH!! Having a forum open that says "School nurse" in the header make it look like i'm doing very important work between my charting and parade of malingerers. Now don't go spilling my secrets ;)

Yea, in between snatching kids from the jaws of death!!

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I woulda given No Stars $20 if she only left out that first sentence or two...

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SSSHHH!! Having a forum open that says "School nurse" in the header make it look like i'm doing very important work between my charting and parade of malingerers. Now don't go spilling my secrets

SHAZAM!!!!! :nurse:

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Hahahahaha! Are you school nurses even WORKING right now? Or sneaking in these posts in between paperwork and puke-threatening kids?

Oh, ye of little faith! You are talking to people who can hold a puke bucket in between bites of chicken pot pie...

Yummy!

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Oh, ye of little faith! You are talking to people who can hold a puke bucket in between bites of chicken pot pie...

Yummy!

:inlove:

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Right about now I am like the penguin from the Madagascar movie, "You didn't see anything"

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

Nurse! Nurse!

I suddenly seem to have a Pedal-Epiglottal Impaction! I don't think a salty cracker will help. Can I lie down on the cot for a while?

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