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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For nurse aide tech in a local school system. I had to make so many calls home (sometimes 12+ a day) during the day as mandated by a strict protocol. Head bump calls were the worst - required to call home to advise a parent. A vm was sufficient. Just had to document that call home/vm was made. Protocol was any injury occurring during the school day involving head/neck/face/mouth = call parent. I mean the most minor injury had to be called, even if kid went back to class. So I made thousands of these calls in my career.

For head bump calls home I always selected Dad if possible - call me sexist but one of three things happened: I’d get his vm immediately and leave my message and never hear back, he’d answer and we’d have the briefest, most pleasant chat or he’d call AS I was leaving the message and again, brief chat for the win.

Once JUST ONCE, this went awry: I left Dad a vm, he listened and called me back, pleasant chat. Then he called his DW to loop her in and all hell broke loose: DW called me back to shout at me and advise that her DH was very important, very busy AND WAS NEVER TO BE DISTURBED AT WORK BECAUSE SHE IS A SAHM AND IN CHARGE OF DC. I transferred her to the registrar who listened to DW tirade and basically removed dad from contact list and added ALL CAP NOTES!

I continued to call dads first though.[/quote]

Head bump calls are the worst.  I don't care if my kid was hit in the head by a frisbee.  I really don't.  I have one kid who seemed to bump his head on everything for a few years.  I know these are required but I could really do without these. [/quote]

Knee scrapes too. FFS stop calling me. Yes my child can have a bandaid.

Bloody nose also bugs me. My child can easily deal with it on their own, but has to sit in the nurses office until it stops (just to ensure they miss class time instruction). I do not want a phone call!![/quote]

PP/clinic tech and I hated making these calls, too. Worst was when I had to go thru a third party translator to assist in making the call only to get a VM that was full/not set up. I put in so much overtime![/quote]

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