Really not appreciating the attitude today

[nursex23]

Too many kids were coming in without passes so I started enforcing this policy more after winter break as the principal said I should when I first started. Yesterday a student came without a pass and gave me his shirt tag and said his gym teacher told him to give me this as a pass. *eye roll* Today another student came in with no pass from gym for an ice pack for an invisible injury. When I told her she needed a pass she gave me a really hard time saying but she said to come here. I really don't know who is worse the students or the teachers who cannot be bothered to give them a piece of paper stating that they should be in the nurses office so that I know that the student is where they are supposed to be. ?

[tining, BSN, RN]

39 minutes ago, ARN said:

I felt like this at my hospital job. family/and patients sometimes were so extremely rude. cursing/demanding. a whole culture of entitlement.

I agree

[Purple036, LVN]

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I really don't know who is worse the students or the teachers who cannot be bothered to give them a piece of paper stating that they should be in the nurses office so that I know that the student is where they are supposed to be.

Amen! I have done so too, reinforcing nurse passes. I have sent kids to back to class to get one and come to find out no one sent them. This has helped me alot especially with documentation. I also sent out another email today to remind my staff of my lunch break. 3rd day in a row with no lunch. ?

[caliotter3]

On 1/29/2020 at 6:45 AM, ihavealltheice said:

The attitude and the entitlement coupled with the expectation that I should just accept the attitude and entitlement while keeping a smile on my face and not stick up for myself is making me want to just walk out. It's been all year.

Sounds like how I feel about my grandchildren sometimes!

[EnoughWithTheIce]

Any "Real School Nurse" would know that there is more to a pass than a piece of paper.

1. Safety - we need to have all students accounted for at all times, passes allow us to hand off student responsibility from one adult in the building to another.

2. Crowd control -if we had no clinic rules, we would be bombarded all day every day with never ending lines of kids needing us for every tiny discomfort. We must use some triage system to make sure we are serving the students who really need us.

3. Educating children to be smart health care consumers - I consider passes as their appointment or insurance card. Teaching them that they have a personal responsibility in how they use (and hopefully not abuse) the system.

4. Information - I have 950 students in my building. I rely on teachers to give me proper spellings of names, etc. in case I have to call a parent or 911 in an emergent / urgent situation.

5. Documentation - I feel no need to explain this one.....

I am sure that if I were at a very small school and only saw a few students daily, passes might not be so important. But, I see at minimum 60 kids a day - I have to have some sort of system in place to keep it all flowing.

And, here's the deal - some of us MAY BE pass nazis but I am sure none of us would ever turn away the kid who is obviously ill, injured, upset, in need.