I've been reading the threads and seeing such awesome support and information being given, so I figured I sign up and share my woes
I have had a couple of students lately sticking things up their nose and in their ears (un-cooked rice grains, paper, unknown items etc.) in my preschool classes. When brought to me the students are sometimes crying or hysterical. Once I am able to calm them down and look up their noses, sometimes I do not visibly see any foreign objects with my pen light. I assess their breathing, oxygenation, and monitor them and I also have them blow their noses to try to remove the object naturally, but sometimes this does not work. My question is, is there anything else that I can do other than calling their parents if the child will not cooperate? Call me crazy but I am not keen on the idea of sticking tweezers in a squirmy hysterical child's nose or ears, but I feel a hint of side eye when I say that we have to call their parents. I just want to make sure that I am doing all that I can.
1mrsbs
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Hilarious!!
I feel the same way, no digging