Here is a note I just received from a teacher, verbatim:
"She wants to go home. Doesn't feel well. Can you call to see if someone will pick her up".
Student is afebrile, no distress, no physical s/s of illness. She did vomit a bit right after lunch, but she ate a larger amount than usual for her and no vomiting episodes since then. I am pretty good at picking up on that "sick kid look", fever or not, and this one just ain't got it!
I am just amazed that this teacher really expects me to call home because the student "wants to go home"!!!! If I send home every student who did not want to be in school, we would all be out of jobs!!! I feel like responding to his note "I want to go home too. See you tomorrow"
One of my 4th graders was vomiting one day, the teacher insisted that I needed to check his blood pressure. Instead of arguing, I checked it......and low and behold.....it was a little high.....hmmm I wonder why. Afterwards I explained to her that of I already knew it would be higher because he had just vomited and was crying! duh!! so....Teacher thinks I need to take blood pressure when student vomits.....funny! I just laugh at it now, but at the time I was thinking....."Are you serious"- tomorrow when you are trying to teach math I am going to come into your classroom and correct you in front of all your students and tell you the proper way to do it"! lol
Ain't that the truth~
SchoolNurseBSN
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Everybody in the building has an MD or RN after their name!! Unless, of course, they see bodily fluids and then they know NOTHING!!!