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[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]

My youngest was a crier as a kindergartner, adored the school nurse, and had a nervous teacher. That added up to double digit calls for head bumps. Meanwhile for my other 2 kids I only got one total when there was an actual injury.[/quote]

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