Things that make me grumpy

Hmmmm. Let's see. Right now it's parents ignoring emails, phone calls, and TWO letters sent home regarding noncomplicance with immunizations. Our deadline is THIS Friday and now they are calling me in a panic about what to do?!? Really? I've been warning you for SIX WEEKS that unless you do something about this your kid will be excluded on Monday. And NOW you decide to start caring?!?

Kids who need EpiPens who still don't have EpiPens at school. Or inhalers. Or their ADHD meds. I could go on and on with this one.

Kids who, like you, are lined up right after the buses arrive telling me they vomited at home or feel awful. They felt like that at home but didn't tell anyone. WTH?!? So now they want to go home 5 minutes after they got here. Grrrrrr.

So now they want to go home 5 minutes after they got here. Grrrrrr.

And SURPRISE! Parents don't answer their phone.

Today:

Teachers who call parents without sending the kid to me first. Gah!

Kids who come in with their "nurse pass" and when asked what's going on they just hand me the note. Apparently the note makes them lose their ability to speak, and activates my ability to read minds.

Kids who, like you, are lined up right after the buses arrive telling me they vomited at home or feel awful. They felt like that at home but didn't tell anyone. WTH?!? So now they want to go home 5 minutes after they got here. Grrrrrr.

Of they did tell someone at home, who told this clearly nauseous student they had to go to school anyway. And when I call them they tell me "well I can't leave work, can they stay in your office until after school?"

Sigh...

When I have a kid standing at my desk using my phone, a kid sitting at my desk whom I am talking with, a kid sitting in my waiting area and a kid walks in and starts talking loudly over top of everyone else and telling me whats wrong with him. Can you NOT see that you aren't the only person in here?? Sit down and wait kid, you're fourth in line!

Right now I am grumpy because its so ******* cold in my office I smuggled in a space heater and am currently running it under my desk hoping the maintenance police don't notice it.

Kids who come in and flop down on my cot when they're not even sick.

Nosey kids (and faculty) who see a kid in the clinic and say, "why are you here? What's wrong with you?" Aargh.

Teachers who send kids 5 minutes before the bell rings.

Kids who come with a complaint then want NO treatment. WHYYY are you here??

I got snapped at this morning when I called a mom to come pick up her Kindergartener who had vomited three times in 20 minutes. She says "THAT'S strange because she was FINE over the weekend" in a nasty, accusatory tone like I was making it up. Trust me, it's more of a pain to dismiss a kid early for me than to send them back to class.

Kids who come in with their "nurse pass" and when asked what's going on they just hand me the note. Apparently the note makes them lose their ability to speak, and activates my ability to read minds.

THIS- ALMOST EVERY, SINGLE TIME! Very frustrating.

Yes, yes, yes!! All of these! Today I am dealing with all the "my mom told me to call if I wasn't feeling good"

I want to tell the parents "If you tell your child that you will pick them up if they do not feel well, please wait in the parking lot"

Kids who come with a complaint then want NO treatment. WHYYY are you here??

UGH! Exactly!!

I got snapped at this morning when I called a mom to come pick up her Kindergartener who had vomited three times in 20 minutes. She says "THAT'S strange because she was FINE over the weekend" in a nasty, accusatory tone like I was making it up. Trust me, it's more of a pain to dismiss a kid early for me than to send them back to class.

Because...ya know... Wednesday is practically the same as last weekend.

Chronic complainers. I have 2 that I am think of right now that make me grumpy. I am maker of fact with them, however they keep coming in for things I can not take care of. They both have worn out their guardians and their welcome in the nurse's office. I had senior walk into the office once when I was talking with one of these little darlings and she told me later, "I have never heard you talk to anyone that way." I hate it that I have to be that way, but if I act the way I do with anyone else, I would never get them out of my office and it's hard enough to keep them out.

OMG Yes!! To all of these

Teachers that don't pass along important medical information!!! I have a kid with a PICC line, mom told the teacher, teacher didn't think I needed to know this. Teacher asserted that medical information is private, F.F.S.

Fear mongering articles about head lice. I can think of a whole host of things that your special snowflake can pick up during childhood, head lice is the least of my concerns.

Classroom aides who overstep their bounds: Friday had one refuse to let a 5th grade girl come to my office until the aide called me. Aide called to ask "Do you really think that she is on her period because I don't think she is and I don't want to send her." It took everything in me to not jump through the phone. I told her that I don't make a point to track all of the 5th grades menstrual cycles and if the girl says she needs to come, you need to send her.

Sending kids to my office for a bandaid when I provide you with bandaids to avoid these frequent trips.

Sending kids to me in groups. For the love of all that is holy, do not send 7 kids over to my office all together. On a similar note, no one, expect kinders and recent transfers, need a friend to bring them to the nurse's office, please stop.

Parents sending kids with unlabeled meds in a baggie to be kept in their backpack or pocket. Obviously meds that have NO ORDER and NO reason to be at the school-in the past week I've had: tylenol, zyrtec, ritalin, adderall, citalopram, and some unknown white oval tablet that was in a pocket and the markings were rubbed off. I can see the tyenol, if you didn't know the rules, but seriously people, you would get arrested if you carried adderall and ritalin around in baggie in your pocket!