I'm just curious what other schools do in the event a child becomes sick and is vomiting! My youngest daughter goes to the local public school one time a week for speech therapy and while she is with the therapist I wait in the main entrance area of the school and usually sit and read a book. Directly across from this area is the school office - which is home to the principals office, school secretary and nurses office. I've been there a few times this year when a child has become ill (literally vomits in class or at lunch) and is sent to the nurse - she simply asks their last name, gives them a bag lined garbage can and tells them to go get their stuff from their classroom / locker while she calls the parent(s). Upon their retreiving their stuff to go home they are told to go sit in the same area that I am sitting and wait for their ride. Is that the norm for when a child gets sick?
When I was younger I went to a private school where the nurse was very sweet and nurturing when a child would get sick. If you had become ill you'd be allowed to go lay down in the nurses office on a doctor bed type thing (my childrens school has one of these beds in the nurses office as well) and wait for your ride to pick you up. You'd be given a bucket in case you become ill again of course!
I'm asking this question because I witnessed this again today while my daughter was at speech therapy - someone become ill at lunch and was literally vomiting in the hallway on his was to the nurse. She just seemed to cold to the child that it made me feel sad and is really bothering me!!!
Of course kids can lay down in the nurses office while they wait for a parent. Everyone in the office has always been kind and sympathetic from what I've seen.
Sounds like a mean nurse!
Sounds like you have a bad school nurse. Ours knows the names of just about all the kids. A kid who is sick, goes to the nurse who looks at them, allows them to lay down and rest and calls the parent. The nurse is supposed to be warm and reassuring to the kids.
Our public school has a beautiful nurses area with beds. Kids who are ill wait in there for their parents. There is a big window in that room that looks out at the parking lot, and the one time my son was sick at school, he was in there waiting on a bed for me.
What you described would bother me too! Poor kids!
Wow, the same thing happened when my oldest was four and going to the local public school for speech therapy. I was expected to sit with my infant son on the same couch with the pukers and their garbage cans.
My kids go to a Catholic school. They have a nurse's office and wait in the nurse's office for their parents to come.
Ours wait in the nurses office
Sounds like you got a mean nurse. Ours lets the kids lie down on one of the beds.
My experienc (personally and with both kids), the kids wait in the nurse's office.
At our school, they wait in the (nice) nurse's office.
Sounds like your school got Nurse Ratchett! Lol
I'm usually the one to call the parents and deal with the ill child. I am not a nurse, but I am the one they see. I try to be as compassionate as I can with them. I usually call the class and have the teacher send their belongings to the office (Mainly because I don't want to chance them getting sick again in the hallways).
Before our building was remodeled and a "clinic" was put in, we had no where for the sick kids to be other than in the waiting area with parents. Now that we have a clinic, they stay in there until someone comes and gets them.
Sounds like your nurse is lacking a little bedside manner.
Hmm... I also went to a private school growing up (very small) and we didn't have a nurse or nurse's office. It was just the main office. Admittedly, the secretary doubled as our "nurse" and was very sweet and kind, but the only option we had was sitting in the chairs in the main office to wait for a parent. They did usually have someone else bring the child's things to the office, though, as opposed to the child having to go get it, but we had no lockers or anything and literally only had one classroom per grade. So I have no idea if that's normal, but that was my experience.
We are in South Florida and although we do have a room for a clinic in our public elementary school - the school nurses were cut years ago from the budgets. Our school nurse is either a volunteer or the secretary who answers the main phone lines.
At our school, no children go anywhere alone - but they do walk in threesomes to take a sick child to the clinic. When my son broke his collarbone, two other children walked him up to the clinic (they did carry his things for him) and then they returned to class. The volunteer called me (my son gave them my cell number) and the volunteer was there when I got there.
Our school nurse will just have the child wait in the nurse's office. They will send an office person to retrieve the child's backpack and jacket. So when a parent picks their child up they are in the nurse's office with all their things.
In our local school the office that was used long ago for the nurse is now a secretary's office. They don't even have a nurse full time. When I was a kid I remember laying on a gurney style bed in the nurses office too> That doesn't really exist anymore.
They don't have anywhere for sick kids to be except in the general area so the secretary can keep an eye on them until someone comes. I agree that there should be someplace they can be segregated to but unless that is someone's office they can only really sit where there are seats.
Our nurse has a "sick" room with cots for them to lay down on while they wait for parents...also a private restroom if they need it for the other end.
We have a great nurse and are truly blessed...she is amazing.
