Ridiculous Reasons to See the Nurse

NanaPoo · Oct 7, 2014

More than once I've heard, "My leg fell asleep in class. Do you have something that will wake it up faster?"

And more frequently I get asked, "Do you have a pill that will wake me up?" I always answer, "If I did, I'd have already taken them all."

SchoolNurseTXstyle · Oct 7, 2014

Middle Schoolers

1. My ponytail is too tight

2. I need you to call my mom, I forgot my mascara

3. I need a new band-aid (nice new intact band-aid noted.) What is it about school that they feel they must change intacts band-aids every 5 minutes????

4. "My braces bracket fell off 2 days ago and I have an orthodontist appintment this afternoon". Ok, i replied - sounds like you got it handled.

5. Anything that starts with my friend or my teacher said, usually involves silliness.

SchoolNurseTXstyle · Oct 7, 2014

I work in a magnet school (enough said). I had a 6th grader come to me from art. Her hand was literally glued shut holding her pencil. Glued shut folks. I could not pry her hand open. I could not stop laughing. Finally, went to the science lab and grabbed a large beaker, filled it with warm water and soaked her hand for 20 minutes till the glue dissolved.
Also had a 3rd grader playing on a walking bridge with metal railings outside. She got her leg stuck between the railings. More she pulled, the worse it got. They called me on the walkie and told me what was going on. I know half the school heard me yell,"I ain't no engineer!" So, as Doc Mcstuffins would do....I grabbed a jar of Vaseline and lubbed her leg up like a Thanksgiving turkey and that little sucker slid right outta there!
Score! Nailed it!

I don't know about you ladies but I missed the day in nursing school when they covered

1. How to remove____________________from_________________.

2. eyeglass repair

3. shoe/belt repair

4. Where to buy and how to operate a magic wand / crystal ball

coughdrop.2.go, BSN, RN · Oct 7, 2014

Contact solution. Dang contact solution. 5 times a week students ask for contact solution. And pregnancy tests.

100kids, BSN, RN · Oct 8, 2014

5. Anything that starts with my friend or my teacher said, usually involves silliness.

so true!!!! :yes:

scrubsrn24 · Oct 8, 2014

"My stomach hurts because I drank contaminated groundwater" - 3rd grader

Someone needs to watch less TV!

Zizi123 · Oct 8, 2014

My favorite is "can you fix my flip flop or Can you fix my shoe?" Really? I must have been absent the day they taught shoe cobbling in college. :wideyed:

abc123RN · Oct 8, 2014

My favorite is "can you fix my flip flop or Can you fix my shoe?" Really? I must have been absent the day they taught shoe cobbling in college.

I missed that class too as well as the zipper fixing class....oh the horrors of broken zippers!

bsyrn, ASN, RN · Oct 8, 2014

Yesterday I was told, from a high school Junior "my stomach hurts because I ate 20 cookies then ran in gym" Kids, gotta love them :rolleyes:

NutmeggeRN, BSN · Oct 8, 2014

My favorite is "can you fix my flip flop or Can you fix my shoe?" Really? I must have been absent the day they taught shoe cobbling in college.

Coban athletic wrap works well! I made that class!

fetch, BSN, RN · Oct 8, 2014

5th Grade Student: "I just threw up at lunch for no reason!"

All the other students who were sitting around him at lunch: "He was doing a food challenge. He put sausage in his fruit juice."

I have to admit, while my first reaction was AAARGH FIFTH GRADERS, my second reaction was to remember some of the gross food combinations I ate on a dare in elementary school! The more things change...

NanaPoo · Oct 8, 2014

I work at a private school and our kids wear uniforms. Specifically, the girls wear khaki "skorts" with the adjust waistbands. The buttons are forever popping off then the elastic gets lost inside the waistband.

I've learned a hemostat is great for finding the lost elastic. Then I might as well just sew on the button and fix it while I'm there. And I apparently missed the heming and sewing skorts day of nursing school!