in America: idk, we have a cot in the back if you want to lay down. no Tylenol though. God forbid we gave you medicine that your parents didn't leave here specifically for you to take. that's against the law.
@@hoptoit5910 that's why I carry a small tin of ibuprofen and Tylenol in my bag. if anyone has a headache, I'll give them some. I try to get name brand so the name of the medicine is written on the pill so no one thinks I'm trying to poison them. at least the nurses will give me hand warmers if I have cramps, which helps
In Ontario, Canada… NO nurse. NO health room. Have a headache?… have a big drink of water, take a quick walk, see how you feel after snack/ recess/ lunch/ (whatever is about 1/2 an hour away)… STILL have a headache - call home to be picked up. ALL of which is dealt with by the classroom teacher (sometimes the school secretary). During pandemic - headache? Isolate. Call home. Go home. 😩
my nurse is friends with my mom and they know each other pretty well and she always lets me have advil whenever i ask for it (she still has me ask my mom but my mom always says its fine)
One time they said they couldn't give it to me because I wasn't 16, it was the day before my 16th birthday. Then they said that period pains aren't that bad, said I was trying to have them on and it's summin all women have to deal with, and then they'd never believe I was ill or in pain
I once threw up on my way there, then the lady lied to my mum, downplaying what was going on so mum said I could stay in school, (she'd said I'd thrown up water once, I'd had about 5 different runs to the bathroom to throw up.) My friends had to get the assistant head teacher - who was also our maths teacher- to get the lady to ring my mum again and tell her what was going on. Once she knew the full story, I was sent home
Well for us they have to my mom pays miscellaneous a.k.a money u pay to the school for extra things that may be needed (ex: water and medicine) so if they don’t give medicine we are allowed to tell the teacher or your mom and even the principal themselves if the refuse to give the medicine (also payin miscellaneous is required yet we still have to pay extra money for school field trips and to buy food from the canteen- no free lunch as well.)
Ours can't even pull out a splinter never mind medicine! They only bring medicine on residentials (overnight trips). In school we can only have it if our parents give it to school, as prescribed medications only!! If you have a headache they ask you to get a drink, and if it gets worse then they give you a fancy ha- Sick bowl, so yeah school kinda sucks!
Never forget when I hit my head really hard on a coat hook in the 4th grade and my teacher quickly sent me and a friend to the nurse (it case I passed or something) and the nurse was more worried at the fact that we didn’t have a note and that the friend was there than me hitting my head
When I was in grade 3 we tried to see how high we could stack the chairs. I don't remember how many we got, but it was at least 1.5x my hight. I was playing under them when they all fell on me. Same thing happened as it did with you. I felt weird all day and actually did pass out when I got home. I was never taken to a doctor or anything. I was just kinda fine the next day.
During the last two years, if anybody was feeling unwell. It doesn't even matter what. They sent you home because you could have had COVID. But before that, you just had to keep acting like something was up, like headache or stomach ache, they would send you home after 15 minutes or so.
They basically call you a liar. I remember my sister needed urgent medical attention and they just made out she was exaggerating her pain level... Next, she's on the floor, unresponsive.
Where's the damp blue roll they put on EVERYTHING?! Brought back memories of my Grammar school days, where even if you went in with an arm bending the wrong way and they'd put blue roll on it 🤣🤣🤣
bro i remember once i was on my period and i forgot to bring pills my cramps were rlly bad so i went to the office and they wouldn’t give me anything they just sent me back to my lesson
I had an amazing nurse at my old school that really cared about the students. You had a headache that made you not be able to concentrate in class? You could choose if you wanted some medicine or if you wanted to go home. Feeling nauseous? Go home. Scraped your knee up really bad while falling? Have a bandage and go home. Having a bad day and crying a lot? Go home. She was awesome :)
At my old school I was unable to breathe and the school nurse just told me to sit on a chair and breathe. They also gave a kid having a seizure an ice pack.
@@xXJaneRoseXx yep, actually happened. We had a couple of incidents where they even shooed ambulances away because ‘they didn’t sign in’. Honestly I’m surprised too
@@jaq8997 THEY WHAT!? Bruh that school is so F- DUMB WHY DO FIRST RESPONDERS NEED TO WASTE THEIR TIME SIGNING IN OR NOT BE ABLE TO HELP THE KID!? The brain can only last without oxygen for about 3 to 5 minutes before they are ,,brain dead,,
at my school, the nurses aren’t allowed to give out medicine, as they don’t have parental permission, but they can give you a wet paper towel and a lie down in a dark room
in australia - public schools absolutely do not give 2 shits if your sick and want to go home, but private schools on the other hand, they do everything in their power to make you stay at that school no matter what.
Damn these type of nurses don't even care about why we might want to go home ! When i was in middle school i had a lot of panic attacks at school and one day i went for the thousand time to the nurse office ( we just had a new nurse and i didn't know her) and the nurse instead of being mean and just like in the video, she sat me down, gave me tissues and apple juice and had me talk about what was wrong which i hadn't been able to do with anyone else. She literally saved me ❤️
Man I must’ve had a really good school nurse because they always took my chronic migraines seriously and allowed me to rest and would send me home if needed. Thankfully eventually got medication to help
At my school, you can go with a friend and most teachers will let them come with you. You can also stay with that friend like come in or wait outside sometimes but most of the time you can just go. It depends on the situation and if emotional support is necessary. And you most certainly don’t need a note. You can just go in between lessons or after break and lunch or whatever and the nurse will ring if the teacher’s wondering where you are but most of the time it’s fine or another student will let the teacher know for you. With headaches, the nurse will check with some water and ask if you want paracetamol or any other painkiller and she’ll also ring your parent to see if that’s okay.
one time i was having really bad period cramps and really wanted to go home because i was in so much pain, got a heat pack for it, threw up in the food tech room and had to be sent back to the nurse's office and sit in one of her bathrooms throwing up in the toilet until my dad arrived to pick me up (also ended up getting diarrhea at the same time which wasn't very fun because i diarrhea'd in my pants and the nurse had to help me clean myself up, think i ended up staying off for the rest of the week)
Next time they say they don’t feel well, please ask for their hand sympathetically, rub it and say “you feel good to me”. Classic, and it actually happened to me.
Here in the US thats grounds for a bag of ice and a swift rest of your eyes in the darker cot area in the nurses office. By law they can't hand out over the counter medicine or even sunscreen in elementary schools🤦♀️
@@rainbowzgrqce that too, I am also in the UK, I should have been more specific in infant school we would get a wet paper towel and in junior school we get water and in secondary school they don't do anything they say occasionally to drink water but they don't let us fill our bottles up so most people won't have water
In my secondary they asked me every single time if I had any allergies to the medication and the nurse was actually so sweet. She really cared for every student and would personally come with a wheelchair and a helping hand whenever my friend collapsed during college
Chest pains always worked for me. But I was a good student for most of my years, so I got away with it when I was a senior. It’s about building up a solid reputation. My mum was pretty chill with it and it basically gave me free mental health days (which I desperately needed).
our school would give us hot water with rock candy for literally any kind of problem. headache? stomachache? singed eyeballs? broken leg? hot water with rock candy
This is so true, like the nurses tell you to ice it and they expect you to magically be fine. I was one in the nurses office and this other boy came in and said he got a bee stinger in his hand, the nurse legit gave him ice for less then 10 minutes and sent him back to class. It’s so dumb like at least give him a pain pill or something
Nurses be like drink some water and have an ice pack for literally every reason literally a person would faint they’ll say have a glass of water like I would be a better nurse than that 😂
Yup. I was in the top 10 of my class and got in to two Baby Ivy’s and waitlisted for Brown. Teachers loved me. Some of them are my colleagues today. They couldn’t stand her either. She was on a power trip. She hated me from day one, and I her. It was mutual dislike from day one when I refused to leave the office when trying to speak with a counselor about an emergency with a friend as a freshman. Or when my mom came in to change a mistake to my schedule. There were lots of incidents. 20 years later, I’m fairly sure she was behind those issues, too. Then she told me I couldn’t call home (pre handheld cell phones being usual for kids) for a headache the first time I had a migraine…I lost my vision and vomited on her and did hit the floor all at the same time. She wouldn’t even call 911-just stated yelling at me to get up and “act right.” I thought I was literally dying…for “just a headache.” I don’t know who yelled at her but some adult did and called an ambulance (as I couldn’t see at the time). Anyhow, my parents raised hell. My doctor called the principal. It got ugly. She had to be “retrained.” I did end up getting a cell phone after that. Oh, and a teacher high-fived me in front of a class when he heard I had puked on her. Hell, her daughter thought it was great. (Incidentally, we didn’t have NURSES…you share those with about 5 others schools and there were only there 1 morning a week to basically give pregnancy tests and-back then-call and tell their parents). The next year she tried to give me-and about 20 others kids “in school” day long detention because a cow was stuck on our road and made us all late. It was a month before graduating and I wasn’t having her power trip shit. Ironically, her (now ex) husband was the Highway Patrol Officer that answered the call I made. After dealing with the cow he gave me his card “in case we had problems at school.” (He knew his wife all too well). Oh did I call him. He had to call tell his wife and tell her I wasn’t lying. Oh the look on her face….it was glorious. If looks could kill…we’ll, we’d both be dead (they divorced a year later when their youngest left for college). The fact he was the patrolman to get the the bad news to her that, in fact we weren’t lying about the damn cow. He laughed when I had to call him and told him the issue. To this day I believe he truly, truly enjoyed making that call. Later another teacher laughed-found out later he told others in the teacher’s lounge (they didn’t tell me any of this until I became a teacher myself. They called her “Wicked Bitch of the West”…as our school had they name in it). One still tells other teachers the story. She was infamous. Still Is, we brought her up and our 20th reunion. To this day, when she saw me at county meetings (she was moved to another school before she retired) and the grocery store etc she side eyes me. Small towns and connections can be good for getting revenge…
I’m so glad I went to a private high school in the US.. public school nurses cannot give you medicine, but private school nurses will. I have had chronic migraines since childhood, and having the ability to get medicine from the nurse’s office when I needed it was a godsend
One of my worst migraine of my life happened this way only o was told to go back to class. After school made it to the bottom of our hill and could not walk any further. Thank God my mom friend was coming for a visit found me bottom of the hill head in my hands sobbing my little heart out.
So amazing to see meds being given in a school. Here in the US they’ll strip search you and accuse you of “drug dealing” for sharing an ibuprofen w a classmate. And no that’s not an exaggeration that actually happened to a girl in the US and you can look it up
Okay that's a bit over the top but in general I think it's better if schools don't give out medicines. Many people have allergies and honestly if you have a headache in most cases having a drink and resting is much better than taking pain killers
@@franziskawild6981 I think by high school some Tylenol given by an RN would be fine. I can see not wanting kids to just take it from one another but having the school nurse dispensing OTC seems the best approach. It’s not like the kids can rest while actually in school.
My school didn't even have a nurse. The secretary would just give you ice, cover up any wounds you had with Band-Aids unless it was deep enough to call your parents to take you to the hospital or just tell you go back to class
I read a story on the news paper about a girl who died because the school wouldn't let her go home for a headache. She ended up having something really bad that didn't affect most mobile functions until it's really bad. The girl was in the classroom all day not being able to do anything and fell unconscious on her way home on the bus. Then she died
I have chronic migraines and I'm on meds for it and my medical intervention plan from my neurologist was that I took my preventative medication 2x a day and if I got a migraine id take ibuprofen first and if in a half hour that hadn't started to work I'd take my prescription painkiller. The proper dosage of ibuprofen for anyone 12 and older was 600mg every 4-6 hours (at the time, its now changed) and nurse would default only give 200mg which was like taking a tic tac and expecting that to cure a migraine. I'd beg her for just a second one and she would NEVER give me the third one even though I had a prescription bottle of a 600mg tablet.
In senior school (UK) between classes one day I was attacked by this girl who grabbed me by the hair on the side of my head, pulled my head down and smacked the other side of it until I just collapsed to the floor. Once she was gone a friend of mine walked me to the matrons/nurses office, I tearfully explained to her what had happened, demonstrated and everything. She checked the side of my head that had been hit, told me I wasn’t missing any hair (wrong side, the girl had pulled the other side) and sent me back to class where that same girl was going to be. The complete lack of sensitivity or care still makes me angry. Still don’t understand why people who obviously hate kids decide to work at schools.
Ok “fun” story time. I had a headache one time and honestly did not fell well at all. My friend walked with me to medical cuz everything was like moving. Got there told them I had a headache, gave me a WET PAPER TOWEL and told me to go back to class. Half hour later I’m outside of the class and (TW) vomiting all over floor, had to stay home for three days 💀
Our nurses won't even give us medicine. "Oh you have a headache? Sit here in the dark for 10-15 minutes, then go back to class."
Our nurse doesn’t even do that all she’ll do is give you a cup of water in an ice pack 😂
I mean, to be fair, it's a headache. Unless it's a migraine, people normally power through those.
It’s not good for the liver lol
My elementary school nurse was just like that
"Oh, you have a stomach ache? Here have an ice pack and some water."
They let you sit in there damn are nurses send us straight to class unless we have a fever
in America: idk, we have a cot in the back if you want to lay down. no Tylenol though. God forbid we gave you medicine that your parents didn't leave here specifically for you to take. that's against the law.
Same in Australia. No pain killers. Go and lie down in the sick bay for a while and it’s back to class
@@hoptoit5910 that's why I carry a small tin of ibuprofen and Tylenol in my bag. if anyone has a headache, I'll give them some. I try to get name brand so the name of the medicine is written on the pill so no one thinks I'm trying to poison them. at least the nurses will give me hand warmers if I have cramps, which helps
I’m in America and they give us Tylenol and ibuprofen and like antacid they’ll give us a decent amount actually
In my experience I've always just told to call home.
In Ontario, Canada… NO nurse. NO health room. Have a headache?… have a big drink of water, take a quick walk, see how you feel after snack/ recess/ lunch/ (whatever is about 1/2 an hour away)… STILL have a headache - call home to be picked up. ALL of which is dealt with by the classroom teacher (sometimes the school secretary). During pandemic - headache? Isolate. Call home. Go home. 😩
Meanwhile in America: best I can do is ice
Straight facts
in England, instead of giving ice, they give you a wet paper towel lol ( basically a wet tissue)
@@liarot9420 That happened at my school cuz they ran out of ice packs
my nurse is friends with my mom and they know each other pretty well and she always lets me have advil whenever i ask for it (she still has me ask my mom but my mom always says its fine)
ice and maybe the cot in the dark room off to the side
Our nurses can’t give us any medicine, I wish they could
Sameeee
One time they said they couldn't give it to me because I wasn't 16, it was the day before my 16th birthday. Then they said that period pains aren't that bad, said I was trying to have them on and it's summin all women have to deal with, and then they'd never believe I was ill or in pain
I once threw up on my way there, then the lady lied to my mum, downplaying what was going on so mum said I could stay in school, (she'd said I'd thrown up water once, I'd had about 5 different runs to the bathroom to throw up.) My friends had to get the assistant head teacher - who was also our maths teacher- to get the lady to ring my mum again and tell her what was going on. Once she knew the full story, I was sent home
Well for us they have to my mom pays miscellaneous a.k.a money u pay to the school for extra things that may be needed (ex: water and medicine) so if they don’t give medicine we are allowed to tell the teacher or your mom and even the principal themselves if the refuse to give the medicine (also payin miscellaneous is required yet we still have to pay extra money for school field trips and to buy food from the canteen- no free lunch as well.)
Ours can't even pull out a splinter never mind medicine! They only bring medicine on residentials (overnight trips). In school we can only have it if our parents give it to school, as prescribed medications only!! If you have a headache they ask you to get a drink, and if it gets worse then they give you a fancy ha- Sick bowl, so yeah school kinda sucks!
Never forget when I hit my head really hard on a coat hook in the 4th grade and my teacher quickly sent me and a friend to the nurse (it case I passed or something) and the nurse was more worried at the fact that we didn’t have a note and that the friend was there than me hitting my head
Agh they’re so infuriating!
Omg those darn coat hooks! I have hit myself on those at least 100 times!
When I was in grade 3 we tried to see how high we could stack the chairs. I don't remember how many we got, but it was at least 1.5x my hight. I was playing under them when they all fell on me. Same thing happened as it did with you.
I felt weird all day and actually did pass out when I got home. I was never taken to a doctor or anything. I was just kinda fine the next day.
I presume that's meant to be 'passed out' and not 'passed' as in died
People assume what isnt happening. Ask a stranger where they're going in a shop, changes are they'll say. Good, just looking.
I love how everyone has these experiences with school nurses but our school doesn't even have nurses
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Same the closest thing we have to it is the principal who mimiced the 1st grader who got hurt
I was actually sent home for a headache earlier this year. Turns out i had COVID
Same
Slaayyy me to
During the last two years, if anybody was feeling unwell. It doesn't even matter what. They sent you home because you could have had COVID.
But before that, you just had to keep acting like something was up, like headache or stomach ache, they would send you home after 15 minutes or so.
A 3-day headache was the only COVID-19 symptom my daughter had. The rest of us were sick as dogs when we caught it from her though!
Ye but that's covid. That's different. It's a symptom. Pre covid it was just a headache
My school nurse: you have a headache, put a wet paper towel on it
My nurse lets me go home for the smallest things she’s the best I swear
They basically call you a liar. I remember my sister needed urgent medical attention and they just made out she was exaggerating her pain level...
Next, she's on the floor, unresponsive.
Where's the damp blue roll they put on EVERYTHING?!
Brought back memories of my Grammar school days, where even if you went in with an arm bending the wrong way and they'd put blue roll on it 🤣🤣🤣
I once got kicked in the face from someone doing a cartwheel and there was blood EVERYWHERE, they were like here, heres some blue role, off you pop 😭😭
They were like oh sprained ankle put some wter on the blue roll and hold it on
EXACTLY IM IN GRAMMAR SCHOOL NOW AND THAT IS MY EXACT EXPERIENCE
i think thats only a primary school thing
@@randomperson8994 no we lit js said grammar skl...thats a secondary school
Our nurse just throws ice packs at us😂😂😂
“You only have 3 hours left at school, can you make it for that long?
bro i remember once i was on my period and i forgot to bring pills my cramps were rlly bad so i went to the office and they wouldn’t give me anything they just sent me back to my lesson
I had that happen. My teacher actually noticed something was wrong and sent me to the nurse without me asking. I was given a heating pad…
@@MrsWheezer tbf, heating pads and hot water bottles work better than paracetamol imo. It’s so soothing to feel warmth against your cramps
Oh yeah… these ones are about as useful as bottle of whiskey in an AA meeting.
The bit about sending the friend away is so accurate, I remember it well.
No one:
The school nurse : Oh your vomiting 🤮 just put an ice pack on that."
I had an amazing nurse at my old school that really cared about the students. You had a headache that made you not be able to concentrate in class? You could choose if you wanted some medicine or if you wanted to go home. Feeling nauseous? Go home. Scraped your knee up really bad while falling? Have a bandage and go home. Having a bad day and crying a lot? Go home. She was awesome :)
My school nurse was actually the sweetest person ever. Everyone loved her and she would always go the extra mile to make sure you were okay.
These skits are single handedly making me want to homeschool 😭
During covid we couldn’t be sent home any faster for a headache 😂
Y'alls teachers gave you water and medicine? Ours just sent us home and called it a day- or gave us an ice pack for a broken wrist-
At my old school I was unable to breathe and the school nurse just told me to sit on a chair and breathe. They also gave a kid having a seizure an ice pack.
@@jaq8997 Are you kidding me? What the actual fuck. If there weren’t any deaths at your school because of that nurse I’d say it’s a miracle.
@@xXJaneRoseXx yep, actually happened. We had a couple of incidents where they even shooed ambulances away because ‘they didn’t sign in’. Honestly I’m surprised too
@@jaq8997 THEY WHAT!? Bruh that school is so F- DUMB WHY DO FIRST RESPONDERS NEED TO WASTE THEIR TIME SIGNING IN OR NOT BE ABLE TO HELP THE KID!?
The brain can only last without oxygen for about 3 to 5 minutes before they are ,,brain dead,,
THIS GAVE ME FLASHBACKS
at my school, the nurses aren’t allowed to give out medicine, as they don’t have parental permission, but they can give you a wet paper towel and a lie down in a dark room
the “off you go” is too accurate 💀
this acting is good enough to intimidate me again
I like how the schools never do anything about a potential problem until it actually becomes a problem
in australia - public schools absolutely do not give 2 shits if your sick and want to go home, but private schools on the other hand, they do everything in their power to make you stay at that school no matter what.
Damn these type of nurses don't even care about why we might want to go home ! When i was in middle school i had a lot of panic attacks at school and one day i went for the thousand time to the nurse office ( we just had a new nurse and i didn't know her) and the nurse instead of being mean and just like in the video, she sat me down, gave me tissues and apple juice and had me talk about what was wrong which i hadn't been able to do with anyone else. She literally saved me ❤️
Man I must’ve had a really good school nurse because they always took my chronic migraines seriously and allowed me to rest and would send me home if needed. Thankfully eventually got medication to help
This lady is so good at what she does, my skin is crawling and I feel so nervous despite being a whole 24 years old
Our nurses office has a whole bedroom with pillows, blankets and magazines. They let you sleep there if you don’t feel well.
Back in the day I thought a ‘cold compress’ would solve anything lmao
At my school, you can go with a friend and most teachers will let them come with you. You can also stay with that friend like come in or wait outside sometimes but most of the time you can just go. It depends on the situation and if emotional support is necessary. And you most certainly don’t need a note. You can just go in between lessons or after break and lunch or whatever and the nurse will ring if the teacher’s wondering where you are but most of the time it’s fine or another student will let the teacher know for you. With headaches, the nurse will check with some water and ask if you want paracetamol or any other painkiller and she’ll also ring your parent to see if that’s okay.
"you can't go home unless you're literally on the floor, unable to walk and breath" 🤣🤣
Omg I had to go home with a migraine a few weeks ago
"Headache" it is not always
I literally threw up 😑
felt that one
the amount of mornings of school i’ve missed bc i woke up and couldn’t get up without being dizzy or throwing up or looking at light
The school nurse is always like
Broken arm WET PAPER TOWEL
no leg WET PAPER TOWEL
one time i was having really bad period cramps and really wanted to go home because i was in so much pain, got a heat pack for it, threw up in the food tech room and had to be sent back to the nurse's office and sit in one of her bathrooms throwing up in the toilet until my dad arrived to pick me up (also ended up getting diarrhea at the same time which wasn't very fun because i diarrhea'd in my pants and the nurse had to help me clean myself up, think i ended up staying off for the rest of the week)
In my school you couldn't go home unless you physically threw up 💀
The way school office staff think doing their jobs is “a WaStE oF mY tImE”
"you'll be fine" said the nurse as i came back three more times because my 3rd grade self had a migraine as i was sobbing
They always be like
"wHy DiD yOuR fRiEnD cOmE wItH yOu"
LIKE WHAT IF THEY WANTED THEIR FRIEND TO COMFORT THEM.
Omg the friend come with is so relatable
The flared nostrils and owl eyes😂
Loool this is a good UK nurse. All my school nurses would just give a cold wet paper towel for any illness, no medicine to be found!
Next time they say they don’t feel well, please ask for their hand sympathetically, rub it and say “you feel good to me”. Classic, and it actually happened to me.
Boy do these videos make me glad to have grown up in the Greek school system
Here in the US thats grounds for a bag of ice and a swift rest of your eyes in the darker cot area in the nurses office. By law they can't hand out over the counter medicine or even sunscreen in elementary schools🤦♀️
By what law because every school I went to the could and did
You get pills?!?!? In the U.S we just get ice 😭
You get ice?!!?we get a wet paper towel
no, I’m in the uk and it will just be like ‘drink some water and you’ll be fine’
@@rainbowzgrqce that too, I am also in the UK, I should have been more specific in infant school we would get a wet paper towel and in junior school we get water and in secondary school they don't do anything they say occasionally to drink water but they don't let us fill our bottles up so most people won't have water
Aren’t we gonna talk about the „good vibes only“ poster on the wall 😂😂?!
Lol I didn't even notice that
yeah kee-
😳 keep walking 😳
In my school the nurse would always give us chamomile tea 😅
In my secondary they asked me every single time if I had any allergies to the medication and the nurse was actually so sweet. She really cared for every student and would personally come with a wheelchair and a helping hand whenever my friend collapsed during college
The school nurses at my school are so nice, and they let you rest for up to an hour if you have a headache
We didn’t even get paracetamol. Wet paper towel solved everything 😂
In Canada, I’ve never had a school nurse. If one was unwell, they went to the principals office to call home and that was it.
Chest pains always worked for me. But I was a good student for most of my years, so I got away with it when I was a senior. It’s about building up a solid reputation. My mum was pretty chill with it and it basically gave me free mental health days (which I desperately needed).
our school would give us hot water with rock candy for literally any kind of problem. headache? stomachache? singed eyeballs? broken leg? hot water with rock candy
This is so true, like the nurses tell you to ice it and they expect you to magically be fine. I was one in the nurses office and this other boy came in and said he got a bee stinger in his hand, the nurse legit gave him ice for less then 10 minutes and sent him back to class. It’s so dumb like at least give him a pain pill or something
Then the next day she calls in sick with a hangover lol
I live in Australia and the nurse at our school sends us home if we want
It's kinda funny how my school didn't even have a nurse, you just had to speak to a first aid trained staff and they would give us paracetamol then.
Literally their solution to everything is pain relief and ice
you missed where they normally said, "you have been in school for 1/2 an hour, can you make it through the last 6 hours?"
Here's a tums and an ice pack, you have the fitness gram pacer test today.
School Nurses: 🧊ICE!🧊 *jazz hands*
I almost broke my fingers and god forbid they couldn’t even give me a wet paper towel 😂
When I was in 7th grade, I was in the nurse's office almost daily during allergy season having asthma attacks. They told me it was anxiety 🙃
Good vibes only in the back makes it better
This is exactly how my nurse is but she doesn't give us medicine
Nurses be like drink some water and have an ice pack for literally every reason literally a person would faint they’ll say have a glass of water like I would be a better nurse than that 😂
Yup. I was in the top 10 of my class and got in to two Baby Ivy’s and waitlisted for Brown. Teachers loved me. Some of them are my colleagues today. They couldn’t stand her either. She was on a power trip. She hated me from day one, and I her. It was mutual dislike from day one when I refused to leave the office when trying to speak with a counselor about an emergency with a friend as a freshman. Or when my mom came in to change a mistake to my schedule. There were lots of incidents. 20 years later, I’m fairly sure she was behind those issues, too. Then she
told me I couldn’t call home (pre handheld cell phones being usual for kids) for a headache the first time I had a migraine…I lost my vision and vomited on her and did hit the floor all at the same time. She wouldn’t even call 911-just stated yelling at me to get up and “act right.” I thought I was literally dying…for “just a headache.” I don’t know who yelled at her but some adult did and called an ambulance (as I couldn’t see at the time). Anyhow, my parents raised hell. My doctor called the principal. It got ugly. She had to be “retrained.” I did end up getting a cell phone after that. Oh, and a teacher high-fived me in front of a class when he heard I had puked on her. Hell, her daughter thought it was great. (Incidentally, we didn’t have NURSES…you share those with about 5 others schools and there were only there 1 morning a week to basically give pregnancy tests and-back then-call and tell their parents). The next year she tried to give me-and about 20 others kids “in school” day long detention because a cow was stuck on our road and made us all late. It was a month before graduating and I wasn’t having her power trip shit. Ironically, her (now ex) husband was the Highway Patrol Officer that answered the call I made. After dealing with the cow he gave me his card “in case we had problems at school.” (He knew his wife all too well). Oh did I call him. He had to call tell his wife and tell her I wasn’t lying. Oh the look on her face….it was glorious. If looks could kill…we’ll, we’d both be dead (they divorced a year later when their youngest left for college). The fact he was the patrolman to get the the bad news to her that, in fact we weren’t lying about the damn cow. He laughed when I had to call him and told him the issue. To this day I believe he truly, truly enjoyed making that call. Later another teacher laughed-found out later he told others in the teacher’s lounge (they didn’t tell me any of this until I became a teacher myself. They called her “Wicked Bitch of the West”…as our school had they name in it). One still tells other teachers the story. She was infamous. Still
Is, we brought her up and our 20th reunion. To this day, when she saw me at county meetings (she was moved to another school before she retired) and the grocery store etc she side eyes me. Small towns and connections can be good for getting revenge…
She stay’s UNTIL
“THE STARE” THE TEACHER. HAS TURNED INTON A BEASTT 👹
I’m so glad I went to a private high school in the US.. public school nurses cannot give you medicine, but private school nurses will. I have had chronic migraines since childhood, and having the ability to get medicine from the nurse’s office when I needed it was a godsend
When you're allergic to paracetamol xD
One of my worst migraine of my life happened this way only o was told to go back to class. After school made it to the bottom of our hill and could not walk any further. Thank God my mom friend was coming for a visit found me bottom of the hill head in my hands sobbing my little heart out.
So amazing to see meds being given in a school. Here in the US they’ll strip search you and accuse you of “drug dealing” for sharing an ibuprofen w a classmate. And no that’s not an exaggeration that actually happened to a girl in the US and you can look it up
Okay that's a bit over the top but in general I think it's better if schools don't give out medicines. Many people have allergies and honestly if you have a headache in most cases having a drink and resting is much better than taking pain killers
@@franziskawild6981 I think by high school some Tylenol given by an RN would be fine. I can see not wanting kids to just take it from one another but having the school nurse dispensing OTC seems the best approach. It’s not like the kids can rest while actually in school.
In my school, we're not allowed to go home unless we actually throw up.
My school didn't even have a nurse. The secretary would just give you ice, cover up any wounds you had with Band-Aids unless it was deep enough to call your parents to take you to the hospital or just tell you go back to class
My nurse before she quit (or got fired or any other reasons. I'm not sure why she's gone) was honestly really nice
Usually the nurse has to phone home to authorise the student to take medicine
The uk: we can’t give you medicine unless your parent or guardian has dropped it off specifically
Omg how do you do these so spot on
I read a story on the news paper about a girl who died because the school wouldn't let her go home for a headache. She ended up having something really bad that didn't affect most mobile functions until it's really bad. The girl was in the classroom all day not being able to do anything and fell unconscious on her way home on the bus. Then she died
Yet if a student walks into the nurses office saying they’ve vomited, it’s an immediate phone call home for them to be collected. 😏
I’m Australia: they send you home if you have a mild stomach ache
They give you MEDICINE in SCHOOL??? what?! And our nurses would just give us water...
Wet paper towel is all we ever got😂😂.
Our school nurse is the opposite. Since covid if you even have an allergy sniffle you get sent home
I'm so glad my school wasn't like this. I went home for headaches a few times. I wouldn't ask if it wasn't a bad one.
“Kee-keep walking” 👀
My school nurse didn’t even offer medicine 😂
They don’t even give us medicine “ oh you’ve got a broken arm don’t be silly! Let’s just get some wet tissue”
Huh.. i always got to go home if i said i was feeling sick.. i am really grateful for that lenience watching these
we weren’t allowed to be given medicine unless it was prescribed
I have chronic migraines and I'm on meds for it and my medical intervention plan from my neurologist was that I took my preventative medication 2x a day and if I got a migraine id take ibuprofen first and if in a half hour that hadn't started to work I'd take my prescription painkiller. The proper dosage of ibuprofen for anyone 12 and older was 600mg every 4-6 hours (at the time, its now changed) and nurse would default only give 200mg which was like taking a tic tac and expecting that to cure a migraine. I'd beg her for just a second one and she would NEVER give me the third one even though I had a prescription bottle of a 600mg tablet.
No, you can very much go home for a headache, I have plenty of times 😂
In senior school (UK) between classes one day I was attacked by this girl who grabbed me by the hair on the side of my head, pulled my head down and smacked the other side of it until I just collapsed to the floor.
Once she was gone a friend of mine walked me to the matrons/nurses office, I tearfully explained to her what had happened, demonstrated and everything.
She checked the side of my head that had been hit, told me I wasn’t missing any hair (wrong side, the girl had pulled the other side) and sent me back to class where that same girl was going to be.
The complete lack of sensitivity or care still makes me angry. Still don’t understand why people who obviously hate kids decide to work at schools.
Ok “fun” story time.
I had a headache one time and honestly did not fell well at all. My friend walked with me to medical cuz everything was like moving. Got there told them I had a headache, gave me a WET PAPER TOWEL and told me to go back to class. Half hour later I’m outside of the class and (TW) vomiting all over floor, had to stay home for three days 💀
Bro literally my school nurse
The older kids always tryna get out of school to skip a lesson they don't like