Staff's children

[Amethya]

Just a quick questions, but what is exactly your protocol if you have a staff member's child in your clinic? Especially if it's a incident involving another child? I document, make the child fill out a incident report, inform my AP via email and then I call the parent, not giving too much detail but mainly explain to the parent that I did a health check up for the incident and blah blah, anything pertaining to the incident can be talked to with the AP. And that's all I say, but for the staff? What do you guys do?

[RatherBHiking, BSN, RN]

Never had dicipline issues but I'd just do what you did. I never get involved in any dicipline issues other than to ensure someone's health status.

Anytime I see a staff's child I notify their mom whenever I just happen to run into them during the day sometime. If I don't run into them I don't worry about it unless it's something major like a head injury. The only time I'd call is if they needed to go home or their child refused to go back to class without seeing mom first (and yes that's happened.)

[cooties_are_real]

If it involves another student and needs to be reported to the AP's, I do that first. If the injury warrants a call, I will. I am very cautious about calling and giving any information other than the medical issue. Even if I say it was "reported" to me as such and such, they tend to take it as gospel, run with it and I get thrown under the bus. Not some much on my campus, but on others, gossip is a hot commodity.

[Amethya]

I don't know that you're "supposed" to. I do it out of professional courtesy, as others have said. Unless it's urgent, I don't call them during the day - especially if they're a teacher. I usually email & just say, "Hey...head's up..." I don't discuss discipline issues with ANY parent. Not my circus, not my monkeys. I may say something along the lines of, "The principal may be calling you to discuss the situation in more detail..."

I mean as I was told this, not asking it, but I appreciate the advice. I do it as a professional courtesy as well, especially via email. I don't tell any discipline issues either with any parent, I just tell them I'm just calling them for medical health issues from the incident, but any other information on the incident will be relayed to them by the AP of students.

[JerseyTomatoMDCrab, BSN]

Here is a new one.

One of our paras got a text from her daughter stating that her baby (about 18 months old) had fallen and hit his head, now he has a bump. So what does the para do? Leave on her lunch break, bring the child to my office and ask what I thought. I was absolutely floored. I explained that I really don't have any experience working with kids that young and asked that she please don't do it again. Today she is giving me a huge attitude. I didn't report her to admin or really do anything and a result, nobody even said anything to her about it. But I am the bad guy, I guess.

End of the year, where ya at?!

[Farawyn]

I have never had an incident with a staff member's child involving another student (ie: a fight/altercation).

When I've had a staff member's kid come in, I treat them as any other and then let the parent know (even if it's not a case I would call home on) as a courtesy. All of the staff member's kids that I've had have been infrequent visitors. I don't know what I'd do if I had a frequent flier who was a coworkers child.

What T. said.

And if my kid was involved it something like this he'd better HOPE it doesn't come to me.

[MrNurse(x2), ADN]

I don't know what I'd do if I had a frequent flier who was a coworkers child.

I have this case. Two teachers' daughters and the owners distant relation. One just constantly (4x/week) asks for ice packs. mom's aware and verbal, but she continues. My irritation is the other two. They act like they own everything in the school and it is there just for them. They come into my office and take bandaids, sometimes up to 25/week. My position is supported by the parent's organization, and as such. my wife and I "donate" most of the supplies and meds. I have spoken to all parties and NO discipline is handed out, they all find it "cute". End of rant, just 18 days left, but who's counting?

[OldDude]

I have a lot of staff kids on campus. Every time one of them comes in I tell them to go find their mom; with a note from me with their temp on it. Most of the staff eventually get tired of it and tell their kids to stay out of here - but some don't and seem to like the attention. Last year I had one kid that would come in every day from recess complaining of some kind of injury. I told his mother and his teacher, for his own well being, I was not going to be allow him to go outside for recess for one week; he could go to the library and read during recess. After a week he could go back to recess and see if he could participate in a "safe" manner. I haven't seen him in here for a recess injury since then and not one time this school year.