Vent Sesh

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It's one of those days. I feel myself being much less patient than usual. So now I'll spend a minute complaining about everything that's annoying me.

  • Administration moved the printer into my office. People won't stop asking me for printer help "how do I fix a jam? Where do we keep extra paper?" or chatting my ear off while I'm trying to work. Not caring when I say "sorry I can't help, I've got to get this done."
  • I'm keeper of the tissues. While on the phone with a parent a little (old enough to know better) came in and screamed "I NEED TISSUES" then beat the tissue box on my door frame (as I held a "one second please" finger up) until I got off the phone.
  • Multiple high schoolers telling me they feel sick but can't find any words to describe WHAT feels ill or HOW it feels ill. Then flabbergasted when I say they have to go back to class.
  • High schooler came in and reported symptom of "I feel like I'm being sucked to the ground like a vacuum. Like into a black hole." WUT.

Anyone else need to vent?

Specializes in School Nurse.
On 1/17/2020 at 2:02 PM, Cas1in72 said:

we need a face palm emoji!

:banghead: - scroll to the bottom

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48 minutes ago, k1p1ssk said:

Today I am irritated with a teacher who can't stand one of her students and so she sends him to my office to get rid of him as often as possible. He was out Mon & Tues this week, but came back yesterday and he has been sent to my office 4x between yesterday and this AM for "Temp checks" because she wants him to go home so badly. No temp, just cold symptoms. I don't doubt that the kid doesn't feel his best, but I am not making a parent come pick up a child who a) has a history of avoidance and b) doesn't have exclusionary symptoms. I called mom as a courtesy to the teacher, but she has no transportation today, so he remains. I wonder how many times he'll come back today.....

Meet with this teacher. Tell her if the student is a problem in class send to Administrators NOT you. If teacher behavior does not change then you have documentation of what is happening and you can see Admin about it.

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Vent sesh 1/30/20 edition:

A teacher banged on my door repeatedly, then came in and interrupted me with four kids in my office, insisting I come talk to him. I said that I couldn't leave the office with kids present, so then he stuck his aide in my chair and dragged me to the hallway to convey this horrifying news:

A student's mom, with no medical input, reports that the student has pink eye. She kept him at home today. He's not here. But, "I just thought you should know right away."

Alert the guards! Close the gates! Let the waves of disinfectant and eye goop rise up to drown us all!

(Hellllllp meeeeeee...... I also had to explain with a straight face yesterday to grown adults including our principal that no, we do not have three confirmed cases of the Wuhan coronavirus at our school. Regardless of what you may have seen on social media).


thanks for this one, @tining

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

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16 minutes ago, laflaca said:

thanks for this one, @tining

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

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1 hour ago, laflaca said:

Vent sesh 1/30/20 edition:

A teacher banged on my door repeatedly, then came in and interrupted me with four kids in my office, insisting I come talk to him. I said that I couldn't leave the office with kids present, so then he stuck his aide in my chair and dragged me to the hallway to convey this horrifying news:

A student's mom, with no medical input, reports that the student has pink eye. She kept him at home today. He's not here. But, "I just thought you should know right away."

Alert the guards! Close the gates! Let the waves of disinfectant and eye goop rise up to drown us all!

(Hellllllp meeeeeee...... I also had to explain with a straight face yesterday to grown adults including our principal that no, we do not have three confirmed cases of the Wuhan coronavirus at our school. Regardless of what you may have seen on social media).


thanks for this one, @tining

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

My dream is that some day a staff member will poke their head in my door, see how busy I am and then politely say "I see you are busy, I will come back later."

I know it is a pipe dream, but - one can only hope.

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1 hour ago, EnoughWithTheIce said:

My dream is that some day a staff member will poke their head in my door, see how busy I am and then politely say "I see you are busy, I will come back later."

I know it is a pipe dream, but - one can only hope.

If that ever happens? Bad news, I'm dead. Good news, I went to heaven :)

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One of my biggest pet peeves!!!!

Student hurts themselves at home or non-school related function, parents do nothing, kid (runs) into clinic the next day for ice. Not too worried about that knee because well, he ran into clinic to get ice. Day #2 post injury some kid bumps him in hallway so then he comes to the clinic hopping on one foot with another student practically carrying him, blah, blah, blah. Ice it then send him on his way. Then teachers are dropping by - don't you have crutches you can give him - his limp is terrible. NOOOOOOOO!!!!

Rewind a school year and we had same scenario with a shoulder, a head injury, an ankle, frequent unwitnessed vomiting.....Moaning, groaning, writhing in pain agony. Make parents pick up - then they tell me - he was fine once we got home - he fibs a lot.

But, in the staff's eyes I am the big old meanie because I won't give him crutches!!!!

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32 minutes ago, EnoughWithTheIce said:

One of my biggest pet peeves!!!!

Student hurts themselves at home or non-school related function, parents do nothing, kid (runs) into clinic the next day for ice. Not too worried about that knee because well, he ran into clinic to get ice. Day #2 post injury some kid bumps him in hallway so then he comes to the clinic hopping on one foot with another student practically carrying him, blah, blah, blah. Ice it then send him on his way. Then teachers are dropping by - don't you have crutches you can give him - his limp is terrible. NOOOOOOOO!!!!

Rewind a school year and we had same scenario with a shoulder, a head injury, an ankle, frequent unwitnessed vomiting.....Moaning, groaning, writhing in pain agony. Make parents pick up - then they tell me - he was fine once we got home - he fibs a lot.

But, in the staff's eyes I am the big old meanie because I won't give him crutches!!!!

I secretly threw my crutches away. Can't give out something I don't have. ?‍♀️

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On 1/17/2020 at 5:17 PM, EnoughWithTheIce said:

Lanyards as passes are the bane of my existence!!!! They swing them around and practically hit me in the face, I find them under cots, behind the toilet. They use them to wipe their snot, they bleed on them, cough on them.........

I was new at my school last year, so I went with it. This year, the secretary did not make nurse lanyards at all- only hall and bathroom so that I could institute paper passes. Now, I thought that since teachers are germaphobes that the bodily fluids would win them over to my side.

But, they can never find them, the subs can never find them or their band-aids. I just spent 2 weeks making nice (big) labeled plastic boxes for every room. Yet, here they come still swing those **** lanyards.

TGIF!!!

so my district started making the students wear id's any time they're out of the classroom. They're all on lanyards. So far i've cleaned blood from a nosebleed off of one and tossed one because it was covered in puke. The teachers expressed concern about them spreading lice because they are under the hair / at the neckline and then are all kept in bins together at the end of the day. I don't have the energy to keep dispelling that one.

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21 hours ago, laflaca said:

Vent sesh 1/30/20 edition:

A teacher banged on my door repeatedly, then came in and interrupted me with four kids in my office, insisting I come talk to him. I said that I couldn't leave the office with kids present, so then he stuck his aide in my chair and dragged me to the hallway to convey this horrifying news:

A student's mom, with no medical input, reports that the student has pink eye. She kept him at home today. He's not here. But, "I just thought you should know right away."

Alert the guards! Close the gates! Let the waves of disinfectant and eye goop rise up to drown us all!

(Hellllllp meeeeeee...... I also had to explain with a straight face yesterday to grown adults including our principal that no, we do not have three confirmed cases of the Wuhan coronavirus at our school. Regardless of what you may have seen on social media).


thanks for this one, @tining

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

Welp, at least it is Friday right??

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18 hours ago, BiscuitRN said:

I secretly threw my crutches away. Can't give out something I don't have. ?‍♀️

I can't seem to figure out why the previous nurse stock-piled 5 sets of crutches; I'm certainly not giving them out unless a family can't afford a set, but in my state, all kids are entitled to insurance, so unless a family gets screwed out of public assistance or has a high deductible, this isn't an issue.

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My favorite one this week is a staff member asked me if we have "pre-approved hand sanitizer that is ok to order". ?

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