Why do teachers

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feel the need to send me a kid with a no longer bleeding nose? What are they expecting from me? Happens ALL.THE.TIME :banghead: and really, why am I seeing the bloody nose kids at all? Obviously the rare ones that are gushers and won;t stop I totally understand, but 99% of the time the kid walks in with a kleenex and it isn't even bleeding anymore. Rant over

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I have to say I prefer the kid who has a nosebleed that stopped on the way to my office over the one that gushes for 15 minutes despite all my interventions to stop it! lol

One of my pet peeves is loose teeth. I ask the teachers, please ASK when they complain of a toothache if the tooth is loose before sending them to me. I'm NOT sending an elementary school kid home for a loose tooth. NOR am I going to pull said tooth.

I keep treasure chests so when that tooth finally come out- I'm happy to give them their rite of passage to come to me for a mouth rinse and treasure chest. But unless there is a severe infection to go along with that loose tooth (hasn't happened yet).. notta

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I have to say I prefer the kid who has a nosebleed that stopped on the way to my office over the one that gushes for 15 minutes despite all my interventions to stop it! lol

One of my pet peeves is loose teeth. I ask the teachers, please ASK when they complain of a toothache if the tooth is loose before sending them to me. I'm NOT sending an elementary school kid home for a loose tooth. NOR am I going to pull said tooth.

I keep treasure chests so when that tooth finally come out- I'm happy to give them their rite of passage to come to me for a mouth rinse and treasure chest. But unless there is a severe infection to go along with that loose tooth (hasn't happened yet).. notta

What do you do for the gushers? Especially when tooth fallings? I had a gusher a week ago, tooth fell out and he was just bleeding out my cotton rolls. I did a mouth rinse and it still continued.

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Yes we love our jobs! But I know several nurses who have tried school nursing only to leave and go back to bedside nursing because it wasnt as easy as they thought. It is very isolating and I am so thankful for you guys. Now back to the topic at hand. I feel very honored that I am the medical "expert" on campus. They really think I can fix anything. But they do not understand my limitations working as an RN with no medical director or dr. I know the staff that is sensitive to vomit, blood, or other icky things. I have no problem handling it for them. I will even yell to some of the staff when someone is bleeding and tell them not to come near the scene because I do not need another "victim" passed out at the sight of blood. haha But I also know the staff that just want to throw as much off on me as they can and that is what bugs me. But like someone else said I have taken the little trivial things as just part of the job and I just roll my eyes to myself, post about it here and move onto the next.

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I just had a perfect example of our frustrations and why others not in school nursing dont get it. I had a teacher almost pass out today in the bathroom. After assessing the situation and getting her into my office I noticed she was having some kind of neurological event (hands drawing, unable to open mouth very wide, numbness and tingling her words were not coming out right). We called an ambulance and Im trying to get all the necessary data from her along with BP, pulse, O2, ect. And I am also trying to console her and tell her shes ok. She begins having another attack and we have to get her out of the wheelchair and onto my recovery couch. And then in walks "little Johnny" a kindergartner that I see pretty frequently for sleeping in class, or being too sweaty, or having a red face (he has anger issues). He is covered in mud and states he fell in a mud-hole. He just bypassed all the people in my room and the teacher in distress and sits down expecting me to clean him up and change his clothes. His teacher is nowhere to be found. I guess he walked all the way to my office by himself. Heck he should know where it is as much as I see him. Now normally I have no problem dealing with this but at this time I am trying to make sure this teacher is ok and surely someone without a nursing degree could have found him some more clothes and told him to go to the bathroom and wash his hands. But no it is the nurses problem regardless if she is trying to keep someone alive or not. Thankfully I managed to do it all...once again!

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I just had a perfect example of our frustrations and why others not in school nursing dont get it. I had a teacher almost pass out today in the bathroom. After assessing the situation and getting her into my office I noticed she was having some kind of neurological event (hands drawing, unable to open mouth very wide, numbness and tingling her words were not coming out right). We called an ambulance and Im trying to get all the necessary data from her along with BP, pulse, O2, ect. And I am also trying to console her and tell her shes ok. She begins having another attack and we have to get her out of the wheelchair and onto my recovery couch. And then in walks "little Johnny" a kindergartner that I see pretty frequently for sleeping in class, or being too sweaty, or having a red face (he has anger issues). He is covered in mud and states he fell in a mud-hole. He just bypassed all the people in my room and the teacher in distress and sits down expecting me to clean him up and change his clothes. His teacher is nowhere to be found. I guess he walked all the way to my office by himself. Heck he should know where it is as much as I see him. Now normally I have no problem dealing with this but at this time I am trying to make sure this teacher is ok and surely someone without a nursing degree could have found him some more clothes and told him to go to the bathroom and wash his hands. But no it is the nurses problem regardless if she is trying to keep someone alive or not. Thankfully I managed to do it all...once again!

Yikes! Please keep us updated on this teacher! Hope all is well and it is something minor!

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I just had a perfect example of our frustrations and why others not in school nursing dont get it. I had a teacher almost pass out today in the bathroom. After assessing the situation and getting her into my office I noticed she was having some kind of neurological event (hands drawing, unable to open mouth very wide, numbness and tingling her words were not coming out right). We called an ambulance and Im trying to get all the necessary data from her along with BP, pulse, O2, ect. And I am also trying to console her and tell her shes ok. She begins having another attack and we have to get her out of the wheelchair and onto my recovery couch. And then in walks "little Johnny" a kindergartner that I see pretty frequently for sleeping in class, or being too sweaty, or having a red face (he has anger issues). He is covered in mud and states he fell in a mud-hole. He just bypassed all the people in my room and the teacher in distress and sits down expecting me to clean him up and change his clothes. His teacher is nowhere to be found. I guess he walked all the way to my office by himself. Heck he should know where it is as much as I see him. Now normally I have no problem dealing with this but at this time I am trying to make sure this teacher is ok and surely someone without a nursing degree could have found him some more clothes and told him to go to the bathroom and wash his hands. But no it is the nurses problem regardless if she is trying to keep someone alive or not. Thankfully I managed to do it all...once again!

Sorry! Been there many times and it is so frustrating. I really do question the common sense of teachers every single day!!!!!!!!!! Like many on this board have said before, they have never lived in the real world

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I have a teacher who has her planning period at 2:00, which so happens to be when I try to grab a few bites to eat at my desk. EVERY.SINGLE.DAY she needs something. Can you talk to a student about BO, can you look at my ear, can you pull my health info so I can see my medication dosages, can you take my blood pressure?? Never apologizes for interrupting my meal.So today I locked my door at 1:59 and just waved at her through my window as I pointed at my food on my desk. Yep, she tried multiple times to push through locked door. I just kept eating.....

I am sure she will be back tomorrow though!!!!!

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What do you do for the gushers? Especially when tooth fallings? I had a gusher a week ago, tooth fell out and he was just bleeding out my cotton rolls. I did a mouth rinse and it still continued.

Tooth gushers sometimes ice water swishes help. Nose gushers, head between your knees, blow, pinch and keep that way, ice, sometimes all three. It always stops eventually..

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Tooth gushers sometimes ice water swishes help. Nose gushers, head between your knees, blow, pinch and keep that way, ice, sometimes all three. It always stops eventually..

Ice water, I heard salt and water as well. But I'm not sure if that's accurate.

I do ice, nose pinch and just blow nose after a while. It usually stops after a while.

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looks normal white kid pink color
:roflmao:

I am totally going to chart this!

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Ice water, I heard salt and water as well. But I'm not sure if that's accurate.

I do ice, nose pinch and just blow nose after a while. It usually stops after a while.

Blowing the clot out helps A LOT. When I get a gusher, I grab my paper towels, makes huge giant tissue and have them blow hard, then ready with new tissue to hold pressure. A huge clot usually comes right out and 9/10 settles down after 5 minutes.

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Blowing the clot out helps A LOT. When I get a gusher, I grab my paper towels, makes huge giant tissue and have them blow hard, then ready with new tissue to hold pressure. A huge clot usually comes right out and 9/10 settles down after 5 minutes.

Yep! 100%

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