Comments on: School Nurse Levels of Care by Illness or Injury

By: Charlene

Charlene — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:03:10 +0000

strangely, in pe we had to run on those horrid asphalt blacktops…anyways, i was always tripping cuz i wouldnt properly tie shoelaces >.< especially when we were running…*low attention span* somehow, the teacher, all my classmates, and myself did not notice a trail of brown/red around the class. the janitor came in at the most random and got mad and somehow the janitor ended up playing school nurse. instead of just running it under water, she actually disinfected it, put the cream thingy on it, and a bandaid -.- compared 2 my experience with the school nurse, janitors make better nurses than nurses (at school anyways)

By: Lolover

Lolover — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:39:27 +0000

One time I cut my finger open (really deep), ran it under some water, went to the ER, got a band-aid, waited 2-4 hours (freaking out about stitches), and it turns out the band-aid is why I didn’t get them.

Another time (pretty sure it was the same year), I tripped over a backpack down stairs, twisted my ankle, and got an ice pack.

By: Arandomguy

Arandomguy — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:38:59 +0000

Lol. Genious!

By: -Piez-

-Piez- — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:31:51 +0000

I punctured my head and they gave me a dot bandage and a plastic bag with cold water. my school nurse sucked.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:54:21 +0000

I LIKE SKITTLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: caroline

caroline — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:20:30 +0000

Actually they weren’t even ice packs, they were ice sponges

By: caroline

caroline — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:19:01 +0000

Whoever wrote this graph must have gone to the same elementary school as me!

By: muepsilongamma

muepsilongamma — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:59:57 +0000

HOWEVER, when i was knocked down by a group of people running in the hall and broke my knee, i had to limp around on a borrowed pair of crutches that the office keeps for the rest of the day! and mind you, these crutches were fit for a FIVE YEAR OLD.

By: muepsilongamma

muepsilongamma — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:57:50 +0000

omg i know!! i knew i had pink eye for over a week and i wasn’t treated but i couldn’t stay home because as a senior, we werent allowed to have absences. (if we made it throughout the semester without absences, we didn’t have to take any final exams!) but someone saw my eyes, and i had to sit in the office until they called my parents, allerted the teachers, disinfected the phones, every desk i used, my locker, and eventually sent me home.
I HAD TO TAKE EVERY FINAL EXAM THERE WAS.

F*** my old high school!!!!

By: Squee-chan

Squee-chan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:09:38 +0000

It’s sad that there would be any sort of mention of STDs in conjunction with a school graph.

Everyone nowadays is just a big, bald rabbit.

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:07:28 +0000

Sadly I did once sprain my ankle and they didn’t even call my parents.

By: senorawesomefaic

senorawesomefaic — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:54:08 +0000

* face palm*

By: Elfking

Elfking — Tue, 26 May 2009 01:34:34 +0000

Not even a “Call Parent” for death?
I think that might be stretching it a little bit.
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But good graph, I’d say. Well executed…
Er, so to speak.
*expects someone that has used that joke before without my knowledge to come and attack me*

By: tyler

tyler — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:36:53 +0000

uhmm.. 80%’s a little high from when i’ve been there, if a kid wants to get out of class they ask to go to the nurse but never actually go see her- just skip. and i’m a high school student :/

By: tyler

tyler — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:34:11 +0000

:/ a good school nurse?!
if i could, i’d hug you right now XD
once in the ER, i had a very bad broken arm- the 70 year old guy who made my splint said it was one of the most “impressive” he’d ever seen, bones moving around behind the skin and everything, but since i wasn’t crying, i spent 5 hours waiting to even get past the waiting room- mind if i ask why a nurse/assistant would do that? i mean, there was a boy with diarrhea who came in after me and got out while i was in the waiting room .

By: tyler

tyler — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:28:46 +0000

yeah, my right forearm was bent downwards and i could feel the bones under my skin, because i tripped over a railroad tie while running to catch a ball and went over a slide- my arm hyper-extends, so my hand was trapped under the slide with my weight on it, so my arm just snapped- since i wasn’t crying and making a fuss, the nurse in the ER didn’t think it was serious. i spent 5 hours in the waiting room, and a kid with diarrhea came in after me and got out while i was still in the waiting room. on the bright side, my arm looked like a funny-shaped swan

By: Canadachick56

Canadachick56 — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:01:30 +0000

In my middle school, the secretary was also the nurse. Between running the phone, scheduling stuff and the lost and found, poor woman didn’t have time for kids with headaches and boohoohoo, we had to go into the office, explain what was wrong, call our parents on line 2, and then we could get an ice pack and lie down or whatev. sometimes an EA would come in and feel back and get our stuff for us so we didn’t have to when our parents came.

By: meal

meal — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:16:31 +0000

A friend of mine once went to the nurse at our camp a couple years back complaining of a stomachache. Sure enough, she was given an icepack. (And by icepack I mean ziploc baggie filled with ice.) That nurse isn’t there anymore, thank god.
I’d share a fun story about the nurse at my high school, but I’m not even sure where the nurse’s office IS anymore. I think I went there once last year for an eye exam.

By: yarrr

yarrr — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:45:58 +0000

at least you get ice packs.
i remember in 8th grade, someone pulled my chair out when i went to sit in it, and i slammed on my ass on tile floor, so i went to the nurse and she gave me a mint.
the mint was nice, but it didn’t help my ass.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:31:57 +0000

My nurse always gives me an icepack after I die.

It makes me feel a lot better.

By: Grayson

Grayson — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:08:33 +0000

I kinda think it’s funny when people come on here and complain that their nurse didn’t excuse them from gym class because they “twisted an ankle” and limped it out.

By: Jessi

Jessi — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:11:19 +0000

Oh jeez this is soooooooo true!! I have a permanent grudge against all school nurses because of the crappy care they gave me throughout middle and high school. At least the elementary school nurses were competent where I lived.
-huge gash on my thumb from a locker–”aw run it under some water”
-chronic migraines I suffered throughout high school–”here’s an icepack”
-sprained my ankle–”here’s an icepack.”
-Hit my head on a street sign while going back inside school during a gas leak and later suffered from a concussion–a counselor laughed at me and I also got an ice pack. YAY. XP

By: Venus

Venus — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:39:34 +0000

*cough* It’s school nurse…. not nursing school. School such as an elementary or junior high school… *cough*

By: Mikee

Mikee — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:06:39 +0000

Instead of ice pack it should be cough drop

By: mell

mell — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:52:09 +0000

my next door neighbors kid…during the first week of kindergarten mind you, fell off the climbing wall (great idea right) and broke her femur…the nurse wasn’t even gonna call her parents…made her walk all over the place and everything…she said when they finally called they called the wrong person!!! but they finally got it right and my neighbor said she could hear her daughter screaming in the background. she was out of school for almost two weeks because she made it so bad from walking on it…gotta love that.

By: Nubify

Nubify — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:24:43 +0000

I don’t know what school you went to, my junior high had cold paper towels in ziploc bags instead of ice packs…

By: XKillerBenX

XKillerBenX — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:24:48 +0000

I sprained my ankle and they made go to the other side of the school to get the ice pack myself and sent back out into the cold, that’s the education system for ya.

By: Lola

Lola — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:03:20 +0000

Ugh, as a 7th grader once we were in PE and I accidentally hit my friend in the face with a frisbee (I’m the master of bad hand-eye coordination.) So I took her to the nurse, and said, “I hit her with a frisbee by accident.” The nurse said, “Crispy? Like…chicken?”
“No, FRISBEE.”
“OHHH! Here, have some ice.”

I really do have quite a few good nurse stories. How about the time I came in when I had walked into a pole, and had a huge bump on my head (clumsy clumsy clumsy!!) The school day was literally 5 minutes from ending, and she had me call my mom. I said, “Listen, my mom’s not even picking me up today, and besides, the bell will ring before you can say “concussion.”" She had me call just to notify. *SIGH*

Luckily there’s a new nurse this year. Maybe the old one got fired? Probably. Anyway, I brought in a friend with what seemed to be a bad cold or the flu or something, and the first thing she said (after, “sign in please.”) was, “So, what’s wrong with you? Did you barf? We’ve had a lot of barfers today.”

Her and I are both rather puke-ophobic, so we just exchanged a strange glance and said, “You know, I think I’m feeling better.” And ran out. (It was 5th period anyway!)

By: Vince

Vince — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:05:33 +0000

One is missing up there: Don’t-want-to-go-to-class-itis.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:48:43 +0000

A high school!

By: Andrea

Andrea — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:46:47 +0000

Dude, I’m go pink eye his phone and door knob. What a buttmunch.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:45:57 +0000

As a school nurse, I loved this graph.

But yes, some of us can give ibuprofen or other meds. I have a prescribing MD above me (I work through another agency, not the schools), and parental permission with standing orders. Only for high school students though.

By: Allison

Allison — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:07:18 +0000

I want to see the school nurse cure death with an icepack.

“Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Brown? Yes, I’m sorry to say I have some bad news. Your daughter has died. But don’t worry, we gave her an ice pack.”

By: killersheep

killersheep — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:31:15 +0000

lucky, we never got icepacks we sometimes were allowed to lie down for a little.

By: Naoyusimi

Naoyusimi — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:55:37 +0000

OMG, what parent expects the school nurse to pay for his or her child’s illness?? Is this some new medical insurance program I haven’t heard about? Where do I sign? [Oh, that's right--I don't have kids--no freebies for me!]

By: Naoyusimi

Naoyusimi — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:52:37 +0000

That’s middle school for ya! Although, that sounds like more-evil-demons-than-the-usual running the place . . . where was this level of hell?

By: Naoyusimi

Naoyusimi — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:48:27 +0000

It’s simply because it spreads SO easily; more easily than the common cold. But I agree that the treatment is easy and not only that, quick. I had pinkeye a couple of years ago, and the antibiotic drops I was given started to clear it within about 24 hrs (maybe a little more). But, the second my boss saw me that day I came in to work (before I realized what was going on), she sent me home: do not pass go, don’t touch anything, we can shut off your computer and close your office …. but of course, I worked in a hospital.

By: Naoyusimi

Naoyusimi — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:39:22 +0000

“. . . the nurse thought it was just sprained”? You’re thinking of a STRAIN. A SPRAIN can be much worse than a broken bone. I’ve been lucky enough to have had both. When I was in 7th grade, I sprained my ankle in a bike accident, and was on crutches for at least 6 weeks (it’s been a weakened ankle ever since, too). I missed a lot of gym & took a lot of crap from classmates (even teachers) for that one, but screw ‘em. My doctor is the one who insisted I stay on the crutches.

I was in a car accident and had multiple breaks in my right leg, and have pins, screws, & plates in various places. Had an external fixator (temporary rods sticking out of the bone through the skin), so I KNOW that’s not fun. They take those out w/o any anesthetic (let you unscrew ‘em yourself, too!), but that was not as bad as it might sound. I’ve never heard of them taking a rod out that way, however. Usually that’s done surgically, under full anesthesia.

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:08:01 +0000

Ahahahaa. That’s so true.

By: Mizzy

Mizzy — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:23:39 +0000

We do at our high school, but I have the suspicion in the back of my head that he’s never actually passed the bar.

By: senrath

senrath — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:12:05 +0000

Heh, for that last part, at least you didn’t work where I went to Middle School. All of the toilets in the building were automatic. Good luck trying to get evidence when all of the toilets flushed on their own.

By: senrath

senrath — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:09:09 +0000

Um, it usually does more than that, albeit not much more. It is often accompanied by cold like symptoms. That said, unless the person is very young, they should be able to function perfectly well with pink eye, as all of the symptoms are easily treatable (a warm compress every couple of hours, along with eye drops will do wonders) and the disease itself isn’t dangerous to the vast majority of people.

By: glenda90621

glenda90621 — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:36:57 +0000

Centers for Disease Control, part of the Department of Health and Human Services. Do U Haz Google?

By: Nen

Nen — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:35:27 +0000

Center for Disease Control. They track and research diseases and institute federal quarantines if the situation calls for it.

By: sklnurz

sklnurz — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:31:20 +0000

WOW! I am a school nurse and I have never heard of students being ignored and mistreated in this manner. If you had been my student, I would have made it all better It is true that due to many lawsuits and unfortunate incidents, Nurses (at least in my district/state) are not allowed to give anything more than ice packs, peppermints, gingerale and crackers. My medicine cabinet consists of vaseline, mentholatum and campho-phenique. I do, however, send a lot of kids home with pink eye, fever, vomiting etc. I just LOVE the fact that I have to try 6 different phone numbers that do not work before finding someone who knows someone who lives near enough to walk over and tell them that their child has a 102 fever and the school nurse has spent the last three hours calling everyone in the phone book while packing their kid in ice packs and wet towels and debating calling the paramedics. What is even better is when the parent shows up and verbally assaults the staff for interrupting their day! What is even better than that is when they bring me the doctor bill and slam it down on the desk and ask me if I am going to pay for it…………Did I mention that during this time six kids from the same class have come in one by one claiming they vomited in the bathroom and flushed the evidence, have no fever, a completely normal physical assesment, but they want to go home?

By: chef

chef — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:15:06 +0000

Also, one question, whats the CDC?

By: chef

chef — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:12:27 +0000

I can see it now..
“Teacher! Billys dead!”
“Give him an ice-pack!”

By: acidgreensheep

acidgreensheep — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:24:55 +0000

My highschool nurse was great but in middle school the gym teachers and nurses were evil. I broke a peice of bone off the knuckle in my pinky when some ass kid who didn’t like me chucked the ball at me. The finger turned blue and started swelling and i couldn’t move it but the teacher made me keep playing basket ball until i dropped the ball and walked out with him yelling that I’d get a dentention if i didn’t go back right away. Went to the nurse, she took one look at it, didn’t even give me an ice pack, and sent me back to gym. After refuing to play ball anymore i waited class out on the bleachers and skipped class to go to the office. The worker took one look at my finger and called my mum asap…my mum was pissed but the principal talked he out of calling anyone by making sure i wouldn’t get a dentention. As far as i know there was no punishment for either the gym teacher or the nurse….wonderful day…ugh

By: manish

manish — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:24:05 +0000

This is true. I got sent home for pink eye twice.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:16:30 +0000

Mrs. Graphjam I had a stroke!
Here have an ice pack…