SPED

[EnoughWithTheIce]

Do you ever feel that their department is a full-time job in itself??? And I am not talking about the kids, THE STAFF! And they don't seem to know how to use a telephone - they just love to call people on the radio instead. And panic when I can't answer right away because I am on the phone or with a student. It is never an emergency anyway.

Sorry, Friday rant over.

[ruby_jane, BSN, RN]

Sometimes it is a F/T job. In years past I would have to tell the paras that it would do no good to take the student's temp every hour; that if the student was ill and the parent had given the student meds it would be at least lunch time before the student might actually pop a fever.

Also that unless they planned to stay with the student with fever whom I couldn't put on a bus, that I'd be declining to take a temp at 2:30. But I would call the parent and tell them about how the student looked....

Having said that - these people are designated to give tube feeds and in Texas we can designate diastat (whether I like that or not, we can). So...if it is something I can do something about - I try to fix it or manage their expectations. If not...I put up with going to do endless skin checks because you never know what you might find.

[k1p1ssk, BSN, RN]

Yep. And every student with autism who is having a rough day MUST be sick. Like there couldn't possibly be anything else in the world that is upsetting them. I have tried asking if there could be a tag in their shirt that is itchy, or did they not sleep well last night, or maybe their hair is tickling their ear just so. But NOPE. We must always subject the poor kids to getting poked in the armpit with a thermometer probe, likely upsetting them even more (I don't have an accurate thermoscan at the moment...). And I've never once gotten a fever read on any of these kids "needing" temp checks. I basically only still do them to placate the staff. 

[BeckyESRN]

If I had a dollar for every kid that "just doesn't seem like himself today", I could retire tomorrow. I got called to the sensory room to check on a kid...the reason...he took off his shoes. No symptoms, no complaints, just took off his shoes?‍♀️

[k1p1ssk, BSN, RN]

On 10/30/2020 at 3:24 PM, BeckyESRN said:

If I had a dollar for every kid that "just doesn't seem like himself today", I could retire tomorrow. I got called to the sensory room to check on a kid...the reason...he took off his shoes. No symptoms, no complaints, just took off his shoes?‍♀️

This belongs in a cross-post to "C'Mon Now!"