The Not So "Nursey" Things...

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What are some of the things that come to your office that have NOTHING to do with the medical field? A common one at my school: "My pants are too big, do you have some string to tie them up?" :sour::yawn: LOL!!!!

Specializes in School Nurse.
I gave up on those tiny little screws a couple of years ago. I can barely see them, and my not so skinny fingers make it extremely difficult to even get the thing in the proper place. I now use dental floss to repair them until they get home. It's strong, it threads right through, and it can be easily clipped with nail clippers when they can be properly repaired.

Great tip!!!

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Specializes in School Nursing, Pediatrics.
This, of course, is just a very limited and brief list :) :)

1. Repair of broken eye glasses

2. Stuck zippers

3. Stepped in dog doo on the playground

4. Broken flip flops

5. Sleeping in class

6. Misbehaving in class

THIS PLUS:

Spilled food/milk on clothes.

Ripped pants at recess.

"Can I call my mom?"

Button fell off.

Shoes too small.

No hats or gloves.

No snack.

Forgot to bring lunch/homework...

And my all time favorite: Loss of recess for XYZ reason and needs to sit in my office! (So I can Babysit!)

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Specializes in Cardiology, School Nursing, General.
Duct tape is your friend! LOL!

NO DUCT TAPE! D:

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Specializes in kids.
NO DUCT TAPE! D:

Why not? it will hold a pair of jeans together.

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Specializes in School Nurse.

Duct tape is the best for rips. I use yarn to tighten up pants by the belt loops.

I hate earring issues, I hand them my pill envelopes I use for lost teeth and tell them to take them off.

Bathroom for the boys that are inappropriate in their grade level BR (they come with a log of time in/out).

Keeper of the lost glasses.

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This is one that I HATE. I am not good at repairing glasses, I can never get the screws in. I do have better tape for genuinely broken frames, though.

I use dental wax to hold the screw on the tiny little screwdriver and to hold the frame/side bar together. Then I don't have to try to fit all the pieces together while also lining up an itty-bitty screw. It works pretty well!

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Specializes in NCSN.

So i just spent the last 20 mins sewing one of those ugg like boots back together because it has been a calm afternoon

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Specializes in School nursing.

My bathroom is a revolving door for MS and HS boys who will poop no where else. And each one of them takes 20 minutes to do so. And some don't flush. I now have a sign up reminding them to do so and clean up any "messes" please.

My favorite part of break is that no one comes into my house just to use my bathroom to poop in.

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Tie shoes, untie knots...they state they don't have finger nails...is it too cold to go outside without a coat? I guess I'm the weather police now. Sock sliding down into shoes. I'm the keeper of the local in-house clothing stop. Does nutmeg have nuts? My reply doesn't the average teacher have 2 masters degrees in this place, way smarter than me to answer that question. Is this a fly? Missed my training in entomology, but no that is not a fly. Wash geese poo off shoes, hell no, not in the health office... poor custodians. Watch children not properly dressed for outdoor play, same response as goose poo, why would you want well children in the same office has sick, feverish, vomiting ones? That sounds like a great idea. The printer is broken...oh I see because I fix other broken things, I can fix all things broken...sure I'll get right on that.

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Specializes in Emergency Medicine, Women's Health,School Nursing.

Had a child sent to my office last year by her teacher because there was a spider in her back pack (they have clear backpacks and could see it crawling around)...Last I checked I did not have exterminator in my title..and I am terrified of spiders...

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Ugh!!! I worked in a school where my desk was 2 steps from the health office bathroom. When someone went, I'd have to go sit in the treatment room to breath.

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I love the poop on shoes. How did that become a nurse's job??

I had a kid come down once with a backpack that smelled like cat urine. The teacher wanted me to call home for that since clearly that's a medical issue.

I loathe being asked to call home for kids who smell. If it's not a medical issue, why am I addressing it? Because you (other staff member) feel uncomfortable with it?? But if the student isn't in my office and I don't know the student, what am I supposed to say? Mrs. Jones asked me to tell you that you smell and need to take a shower?

In my old school, I was the official "documenter." Any time a kid came in with the little red mark or scratch, I was asked to "document it." Sure. "Johnny presented in the health office at 8:45am with a 1" scratch on his left lower arm. He stated his little brother scratched him before school this morning." Sigh.....Luckily, I work in schools now where staff members are a little less paranoid. :woot:

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