sick (pardon the pun) of teachers

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1) I don't get gum out of hair

2) I don't clean the childs shirt if they spilled something on it

3) I wont sew up your pants or a students pants

4) I wont recheck a student who YOU THINK is sick.

5) I will not notify the entire school for one student having lice..and no I will not check yours if you ask.

6) I only stock advil and Tylenol. STOP asking me for Midol, Aleve, Tums, robitussin etc

7)If your sick, YOU tell the principal YOU are going home using a sick day, Do NOT tell the principal that I am sending you home. Last I look you are a stinkin' grown up

8) I need my lunch hour to regroup and take a breath, DO NOT send the student down for a sneeze, a cough, a stomach ache, a hair tie, a new shoelace etc.

9)I will not allow a student to hang in my office because you simply cannot handle his outburst...call his caseworker

10) please stop telling me how great your kids school nurse is because she never calls you especially when you told me you sent them in with a high fever today....

whew, just the tip of iceberg, but thanks for listening.

Specializes in CEN, CFRN, PHRN, RCIS, EMT-P.
1) I don't get gum out of hair

2) I don't clean the childs shirt if they spilled something on it

3) I wont sew up your pants or a students pants

4) I wont recheck a student who YOU THINK is sick.

5) I will not notify the entire school for one student having lice..and no I will not check yours if you ask.

6) I only stock advil and Tylenol. STOP asking me for Midol, Aleve, Tums, robitussin etc

7)If your sick, YOU tell the principal YOU are going home using a sick day, Do NOT tell the principal that I am sending you home. Last I look you are a stinkin' grown up

8) I need my lunch hour to regroup and take a breath, DO NOT send the student down for a sneeze, a cough, a stomach ache, a hair tie, a new shoelace etc.

9)I will not allow a student to hang in my office because you simply cannot handle his outburst...call his caseworker

10) please stop telling me how great your kids school nurse is because she never calls you especially when you told me you sent them in with a high fever today....

whew, just the tip of iceberg, but thanks for listening.

You've told us what you don't do, I realize you're just venting (I hope) but the post came across way too negative. Can you tell us what you actually do in detail? That would actually be a more interesting read.

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You've told us what you don't do, I realize you're just venting (I hope) but the post came across way too negative. Can you tell us what you actually do in detail? That would actually be a more interesting read.

What? A venting thread is negative? NO WAY!

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Specializes in CEN, CFRN, PHRN, RCIS, EMT-P.
What? A venting thread is negative? NO WAY!

Reminded me of a scene of the movie Mrs. Doubtfire where the nanny being interviewed gave a long list of the things she didn't do LOL!! I wonder if the OP vented like this back when she was being interviewed for that job.... :)

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Uh, don't butt in a fun venting thread by telling the OP that they are negative. It's annoying and, well, judgmental. Now quit it!

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Specializes in Telemetry, Gastroenterology, School Nrs.
You've told us what you don't do, I realize you're just venting (I hope) but the post came across way too negative. Can you tell us what you actually do in detail? That would actually be a more interesting read.

Wow! You must never have a bad day where you work. It must all be roses and smiley faces. I am sure the list of things that this particular nurse does do, day in and day out, would far surpass anything you could imagine. Sometimes we just need to vent and hope that we aren't alone in some of the things we deal with.

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Specializes in CEN, CFRN, PHRN, RCIS, EMT-P.
Wow! You must never have a bad day where you work. It must all be roses and smiley faces. I am sure the list of things that this particular nurse does do, day in and day out, would far surpass anything you could imagine. Sometimes we just need to vent and hope that we aren't alone in some of the things we deal with.

Im just giving my opinion, you're free to judge me as you have. I think it's negative and that's that. Who cares about what I have to say anyway? It's an opinion and is neither right or wrong, it just is.

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Specializes in CEN, CFRN, PHRN, RCIS, EMT-P.
Uh, don't butt in a fun venting thread by telling the OP that they are negative. It's annoying and, well, judgmental. Now quit it!

Don't butt in on my opinion now quit it :p

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If you want to start a thread about all the awesome things school nurses do, go ahead! We'll join in. But to say something like that on this thread is posting off topic and against the site's TOS.

Please leave us to our venting and take your aggressive sunshine and roses to your own thread if you want.

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I am not a dog crap on a shoe cleaner. (Seriously????)

I drew the line there one day last year! Someone came in with it and I said "NOPE! Not a health issue. You can use my sink if you want, but I am not cleaning it."

Same with a student vigorously touching himself in class. If he is doing it because there's a rash, OK, I'll take a look. But if it's because he 12 and intrigued by a new phenomenon, not a health issue.

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Specializes in CEN, CFRN, PHRN, RCIS, EMT-P.
If you want to start a thread about all the awesome things school nurses do, go ahead! We'll join in. But to say something like that on this thread is posting off topic and against the site's TOS.

Please leave us to our venting and take your aggressive sunshine and roses to your own thread if you want.

Vent on... Later!

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I drew the line there one day last year! Someone came in with it and I said "NOPE! Not a health issue. You can use my sink if you want, but I am not cleaning it."

Same with a student vigorously touching himself in class. If he is doing it because there's a rash, OK, I'll take a look. But if it's because he 12 and intrigued by a new phenomenon, not a health issue.

That's an etiquette issue that should have been dealt with by his parents years ago (Says mother of 4 sons) "Now Johnny, we don't touch down there in front of other people, and don't pick your nose in front of Mrs Jones, it's bad manners"

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That's an etiquette issue that should have been dealt with by his parents years ago (Says mother of 4 sons) "Now Johnny, we don't touch down there in front of other people, and don't pick your nose in front of Mrs Jones, it's bad manners"

Ha! I don't look forward to when my son is there... He is 6 now and I gently remind him to take his hand out of his pants while we watch TV

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