kind of feeling low right now

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hitting a point where the parents and their threats are becoming just too much. Im not raising your kids, I am raising my own. Im here to care for them while they are in school. Im here for emergencies and to do required screenings. If you dont want them, please dont have them.

If they are sick, keep them home cause Im going to call and keep calling until you or your spouse/friend/mailman/grocery man comes and gets them. Stop busting my chops parents seriously you are taking the fun out of my job.

I love being a school nurse, I dont love the politics, the drama that comes along with your little entitled snowflakes being small versions of your entitled self.

okay, whew that felt good.

Sending you a hug, palli.

Later, one of those kids will come back and tell you that you saved them. All of our little acts of kindness and caring make big waves.

Only if they can find me.... LOL

I feel your pain! I have been doing this job 12 years. I have worked both socioeconomic extremes (very low and currently very high). Both are tough in different ways.

The job is getting harder. Everyone is afraid of a lawsuit. This means the teachers are afraid not to send every little complaint. Like many others have mentioned, our culture has become accustomed to instant gratification and the things that used to be normal kid symptoms (skinned knees, nosebleeds, minor tummy aches) are now medical emergencies.

I am feeling very burned out myself. I am sitting on the fence about returning to a hospital or home health care. At the end of the day, it is just really hard being the only health person amongst educators.

The educators themselves are the worst offenders diagnosing and getting angry when we dont send the kids home. I love it when I get a phone saying, they have Coxsackie, they have a fever, they have an ear infection...HEY SATAN....NOT TODAY!!!!

YES, YES, AND YES!! While I understand helping to cover the teachers' behind, I also understand that most of the kids they send out of the classroom should have never been sent to the nurse. The students are the ones to suffer in the long run, because they are missing precious classroom minutes just to keep a teacher or school from getting sued. So sad!

Listen if I'm not afraid of getting sued because I don't send every single kid home then teachers shouldn't be afraid of getting sued if they don't send every single kid to me. Just teach and let me Nurse. Parents need to parent and I need to Nurse. If everyone can just do their job everything would be good andI would not have had to wrote this post. LOL

Specializes in Psychiatric Nursing.

I once helped a school nurse do a morning assessment on an eight year old with stomach pain. We eventually learned the pain was caused from hunger. Yes, the parents were notified. I agree that you are not raising other's children, but you are making a standard in which others must observe. Some people do not deserve pets, let alone children. I am glad that you are working for our schools. You are fighting the front lines of our checks and balances in good/bad parenting. Thank you for your service!

Specializes in Cardiology, School Nursing, General.
The entitlement is across the socioeconomic board. The threats come in the form of in these exact words"Go ahead Nurse call Child protective services one more time and see what happens to you".. okay, if you dont stop kicking your child and allowing your boyfriend to kick your child, then I wont have to call child protective svc,

Administration backs me, Im good with that, I'm just thinking...after 20 years as a nurse and 10 plus as a school nurse (not making a whole hellava lot) is it really seriously worth it and please dont jump on me saying...yes the kids are worth it. I get that part, I'm just realizing it's just so seriously hurtful sometimes

I'm sorry, but how in hell do they know you're calling CPS? It's suppose to be anonymous. Even so, if you have proof of threats, you can use that against them if need to.

I think it's worth it, because these kids will be saved by you and will never be hurt again.

Specializes in Cardiology, School Nursing, General.

I think it also depends where and what type of environment your school has. My school is majority Hispanic families, so because of this a lot of these kids have that Hispanic discipline in them, that unless they are really dying, they aren't going home. And I'm so glad I have this mentality from a lot of the parents here, because I give that tough love aspect in my job to my students and they love me for it. I am careful on what I do obviously, I had issues before in my first year (last year) because some parents complained, but I changed my attitude and way, and now things are going really well. I still give tough love, but I always communicate with the parent.

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