So many sick kids today...

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I'm getting sick myself, but I took some medicine and came to work. But it's so hard to feel so crappy and have 20 kids come in and it's barely 12 pm! Each of them with the same symptoms, headache, stuffy nose. There's not much I can do for them and I feel so bad for them and for myself as well. A lot of them went home too.

I feel I should call in tomorrow, I feel pretty bad.

It's crazy the cold sx coming in and the nasty old stomach bug! 20 kids before 11am! I have 40 sick days built up and darn it, I'm using them this year! I refuse to be sick but if asked, I'm in dire need of vitamin D! (translate to a couple beach trips coming this fall). IO thought this year would be easier with the the T1D kiddos but nope got a whole new crop of special snowflakes that can't handle a hangnail. Oh the life of school nurses.

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We only get 5 days of PTO to use as either sick or personal days. Last year I used one b/c my daughter was home sick from school. Unfortunately, they do not roll over.

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I feel sick today. Drinking iced tea with tons of lemon hoping to cut the gack.

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Specializes in ED, School Nurse.

Yesterday was the same in my neck of the woods. I already had one show up this morning saying, "My mom didn't believe me when I told her I was sick this morning, maybe she'll believe you when you call her and tell her." Ummm, no fever, lungs clear, O2 sat good, refused ibuprofen/Tylenol, no phone call to mom. Sorry buddy, suck it up like the rest of the school.

I used a bunch of my sick days for my surgery last year, luckily that was towards the end of the school year so 12 more sick days have magically appeared in my "account" since school started. My sick days roll over as well.

ETA said student came in again begging for me to send him home. "Well, looks like I'm getting suspended then. You could just write me a ******** pass." Me: "Or you could tough it out and stay in school?" SLAM!

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Yesterday was the same in my neck of the woods. I already had one show up this morning saying, "My mom didn't believe me when I told her I was sick this morning, maybe she'll believe you when you call her and tell her." Ummm, no fever, lungs clear, O2 sat good, refused ibuprofen/Tylenol, no phone call to mom. Sorry buddy, suck it up like the rest of the school.

I used a bunch of my sick days for my surgery last year, luckily that was towards the end of the school year so 12 more sick days have magically appeared in my "account" since school started. My sick days roll over as well.

ETA said student came in again begging for me to send him home. "Well, looks like I'm getting suspended then. You could just write me a ******** pass." Me: "Or you could tough it out and stay in school?" SLAM!

Little stinker.

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Specializes in IMC, school nursing.

I will wager, considering the entire spectrum of the nursing profession, school nursing is at the top of the list for coming to work sick.

Nope, both the hospital and acute rehab limit your sick days to 3, 4 "incidents" per rolling 12 month period of calling out before discipline. Many coworkers have medicated fevers and puked during shifts to not get to that point. I can call out anytime I need to, and the policy here is 10 days. Haven't had to, but know I could if necessary.

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Specializes in Med-surg, school nursing..
Nope, both the hospital and acute rehab limit your sick days to 3, 4 "incidents" per rolling 12 month period of calling out before discipline. Many coworkers have medicated fevers and puked during shifts to not get to that point. I can call out anytime I need to, and the policy here is 10 days. Haven't had to, but know I could if necessary.

I agree that at the hospital, 3 absences were all you could have without getting some sort of "discipline". But at a hospital, there were other nurses to cover you (even if stretched thin) or nurses to call in. Here at the school, we get 10 sick days, 3 personal days, and 2 emergency days. But they RARELY get used because we have one sub for all 9 nurses and she has a full-time job. I come to school sick all the time unless I am vomiting.

We tough, tho.

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Specializes in NCSN.

I'm either getting morning sickness sooner than I did with my last or the stomach bug that's going around here.

Thank goodness for saltines.

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Everyone here has the sniffles and a sore throat. Everyone also thinks that they MUST go home because of this minor discomfort. My allergies and asthma are acting up because mother nature can'd decide if it's summer or winter (low of 43, high of 85, go home mother nature, you're drunk!)

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Everyone here has the sniffles and a sore throat. Everyone also thinks that they MUST go home because of this minor discomfort. My allergies and asthma are acting up because mother nature can'd decide if it's summer or winter (low of 43, high of 85, go home mother nature, you're drunk!)

The parents come rushing up, too, because the LDs can't have uno momento of discomfort!

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Specializes in School nursing.

This is the September of conjunctivitis for me thanks to the awful upper respiratory infection making the rounds. For the first time ever, I even fell victim to it and it spread from one eye to the other (ugh, that was not fun but I got the pleasure of it hitting me over the long Labor day weekend which I guess was good because I didn't have to arrange a sub and was on antibiotics for 48+ hours prior to returning to work).

I never see the other kids with conjunctivitis and I have referred three students out this week for it already. And it is the kind you take one look at it and go "yep, that's bacterial."

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Specializes in Cardiology, School Nursing, General.

Thankfully I'm fine today, I went to the doctor and I was fine. But it's crazy cakes here.

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