Random Thoughts: School Nurses

100kids, BSN, RN · Nov 23, 2015

2020 :/

:no: Ugh!

100kids, BSN, RN · Nov 23, 2015

Ugh! Monday mornings kill me. Had a 1st grader throw up on the bus, the bus driver calling school frantic so I could meet the child at the bus, other kids throwing up from the smell or threatening to, Calgon take me away!

SnugglePuggle, MSN, RN · Nov 23, 2015

8th grade boys did the Jalepeno Cahllenge yesterday and puked green peppers in my office.
Same group that did the Hot Sauce Challenge last year with the diarrhea.
Mhm.

I've got the "Salt and Ice" challenge among my 7th and 8th grade boys this year. :banghead:

SnowyJ, RN · Nov 23, 2015

I survived the Milk Challenge of 2013!!!

And I had ZERO sympathy for the resultant self induced barfing.

kidzcare · Nov 23, 2015

I survived the Milk Challenge of 2013!!!
And I had ZERO sympathy for the resultant self induced barfing.

When I was in high school (I graduated in 1998) during a lesson, a science teacher mentioned that a person can't drink too much milk in a short period of time and a student said something like "I love milk, I could drink a whole gallon without feeling sick" so the teacher told the kid that he could bring in a gallon of milk and give it a shot. Challenged him to drink the whole gallon during the class period. The student was proven quite wrong the next day when all the milk came back up.

Try to imagine that happening today!

SnowyJ, RN · Nov 23, 2015

Oh, the backlash on that would be ridiculous these days!

JenTheSchoolRN, BSN, RN · Nov 23, 2015

When I was in high school (I graduated in 1998) during a lesson, a science teacher mentioned that a person can't drink too much milk in a short period of time and a student said something like "I love milk, I could drink a whole gallon without feeling sick" so the teacher told the kid that he could bring in a gallon of milk and give it a shot. Challenged him to drink the whole gallon during the class period. The student was proven quite wrong the next day when all the milk came back up.
Try to imagine that happening today!

Well, I'd tell him he would be the one cleaning up that puke ;o).

SnowyJ, RN · Nov 23, 2015

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OyWithThePoodles, RN · Nov 23, 2015

I love getting the "is there anything going around' phone call from parents. Ummm....there are 500 kids in this school, SOMETHING is always going around.

At our nurses staff meeting last week we discussed changing the lice policy to where they can stay in school. Teachers and parents will LOVE this, but sending them home isn't supported by the CDC, NSNA, AAP, etc. And the chronic kids are the ones that need to stay in school the most.

Flare, ASN, BSN · Nov 23, 2015

I want one of those shirts!!

100kids, BSN, RN · Nov 24, 2015

I love getting the "is there anything going around' phone call from parents. Ummm....there are 500 kids in this school, SOMETHING is always going around.

This makes me CRAZY! Or when a parent posts of FB that their darling is home sick and another parent comments with "Oh that's going all around school" REALLY? We have had 2 cases, let's not alert the authorities just yet! But you know once it's on Facebook it's true! :sarcastic:

SnowyJ, RN · Nov 24, 2015

Yeah, so.....

Had a 4th grader put a staple in a light socket. (Let the Mensa meeting commence!) Nice little zap with that one! :specs:

Thought the sub in the room was going to have a heart attack.

Almost Thursday, folks...Keep hope alive! :wideyed: