Just a Rant

Jedrnurse, BSN, RN · Apr 5, 2017

Yeah, occasionally a student will come because "Ms. So-and-So said I had a fever."

95% of the time they don't...

NurseBeans, BSN, RN, EMT-B · Apr 5, 2017

This does annoy me. "I feel warm". "My teacher says my head feels warm" "the teacher says I feel like I have a fever". Ugh. Don't put that idea into the kids' heads! Because once the teacher says they feel like they have a "temperature", it's really hard to convince them otherwise. The kids and the teachers!

I had a mom (who is a nurse) question my thermometer's accuracy when her child had a fever when she got home, and several other parents were in the room earlier that day and said her daughter's head felt warm. This was at 9, the fever happened at 4...but because other parents told her that her daughter's head felt warm, I must have a bad thermometer. I mean, I can't tell you how many times I have felt my own kids burning up, and they are 98.6, and then the times they feel fine to touch and are 101. You can't tell a temp from a hand on the forehead. You just can't.

grammy1 · Apr 5, 2017

We have one teaching assistant who does that a couple of times a week. She works with special ed, and I swear she just wants them to have a fever and go home so she doesn't have to work as hard. :no:

iggywench, BSN, RN · Apr 5, 2017

There are a few teachers at my old school who I considered buying thermometers for. I was so tired of them sending students to the clinic because "they have fever". I asked them to stop diagnosing students with fever, but my request fell on deaf ears.

mrsfoster601 · Apr 5, 2017

Exactly ugh....I get this all day and when I send the student back because like always the teacher is wrong, the teacher always gets an attitude I guess because their assessment was wrong. So annoying:shy:

This does annoy me. "I feel warm". "My teacher says my head feels warm" "the teacher says I feel like I have a fever". Ugh. Don't put that idea into the kids' heads! Because once the teacher says they feel like they have a "temperature", it's really hard to convince them otherwise. The kids and the teachers!
I had a mom (who is a nurse) question my thermometer's accuracy when her child had a fever when she got home, and several other parents were in the room earlier that day and said her daughter's head felt warm. This was at 9, the fever happened at 4...but because other parents told her that her daughter's head felt warm, I must have a bad thermometer. I mean, I can't tell you how many times I have felt my own kids burning up, and they are 98.6, and then the times they feel fine to touch and are 101. You can't tell a temp from a hand on the forehead. You just can't.

mrsfoster601 · Apr 5, 2017

Yes Exactly!

We have one teaching assistant who does that a couple of times a week. She works with special ed, and I swear she just wants them to have a fever and go home so she doesn't have to work as hard.

mrsfoster601 · Apr 5, 2017

I told one teacher that you suppose to feel warm its the human body

There are a few teachers at my old school who I considered buying thermometers for. I was so tired of them sending students to the clinic because "they have fever". I asked them to stop diagnosing students with fever, but my request fell on deaf ears.

cooties_are_real · Apr 5, 2017

On the high school level, it's "my friend says my foreheads hot." :rolleyes:

Eleven011 · Apr 5, 2017

On the high school level, it's "my friend says my foreheads hot."

Yep. And they have a tank top, shirt, hoodie and jacket on!

SchoolNurseTXstyle · Apr 5, 2017

We have one teaching assistant who does that a couple of times a week. She works with special ed, and I swear she just wants them to have a fever and go home so she doesn't have to work as hard.

Do we work at the same school??????

schoolnurse61 · Apr 6, 2017

I have one kindergarten teacher who i swear touches every kids head in her classroom with her cold hands as they walk through the door in the morning. I then see a steady stream of kids for "temp checks" ,that are all usually normal by the way, from her classroom! so over it!!