Sick of the same old game

[Keepstanding, ASN, RN]

just venting here folks ! same stuff, different day today i have had three different teachers bring kids to me because "they are just not themselves" today. what the heck does that mean ? they all presented with no fever, no vomiting, no diarrhea. no nothing !! just acting up in class and causing the teachers some grief. i stuck to my guns and had them take them back to class. why......nothing wrong with them !!

thanks for hearing me out ! i feel so much better

praiser :heartbeat

[Purple_Scrubs, BSN, RN]

It's so sad that they take advantage of you that way. Ugh. I am so lucky that probably about 75% of the time when my teachers send me a kid for "just ain't himself", they end up febrile or even if they don't have fever, they are ones that I look at and say "yeah, that kid is sick, I need to watch em for a while" (and they often promptly vomit in my trash can). For those few who are truly not ill, I send them back and my tag line is "this does not appear to be a medical issue, it may be a behavioral issue". Bottom line, classroom management is their job, not yours!

Sorry they are playing those games with you. Hang in there!

[pugmomrn]

On the one hand, if the kid has nonspecific complaints, nothing I can put my finger on, and the teacher says the kid is just "off" today, I'll go ahead and call the parents. Maybe something is just starting to brew but there's no fever or vomiting... yet. (Or, parent will shed light on the fact that they were up wayyyyyy to early this morning, playing video games!)

On the other hand, just before Xmas my daughter felt a little off- bit of congestion, slight headache- in the morning. I did what any good working mom does-- give her a dose of triaminic and send her off to school. When I picked her up at the end of the day, she burst into tears and said "I didn't go to the health room today because I knew I didn't have a fever, and I knew they wouldn't call you". WHAM!! Knife through the heart of her mother!!

You just never know with these kids!! Hope today is better for you, Praiser!

[luvschoolnursing, LPN]

January and February are long cold months. Most of the kids get restless and are "not themselves" this time of year. It's long for the kids, for us and for the teachers!