to think this nurse really didn't know what she was doing

[whoneedssleepanyway]

Last week DD2 (2.5) fell and gashed her forehead.

Took her to the minor injury clinic and they said it warranted some attention.

Anyway she was good as gold, lay on the bed let the nurse clean her up etc. Nurse then said she would put some glue in it, it may sting a little, she was on my lap, well as soon as the glue touched the cut DD screamed and threw her hand up to her head and rubbed the cut, and rubbed the glue into her eye which glued her eye shut. DH and I then had to hold her down while they bathed her eye open. By the time they had done this she was hysterical, had busted the cut open again but wouldn't let anyone near it, so we had to leave it open, nurse gave us some steri strips to take away.

I just thought this was an unfortunate incident but having mentioned it to a couple of people they have said you have to be so so so careful using glue near children's eyes and that this had not been done properly, normally you would steri strip first and then put the glue over the top and make sure the child's arms were held firmly. If the nurse had said, "right this will sting quite a bit so hold her firm for 10 seconds by which time the glue will have dried" we could have avoided the whole sorry incident.

DD won't let anyone near her head now even just to clip her fringe out of her face.

The nurse was mortified and I imagine has learnt this isn't the way to do this in the future, but I am pretty annoyed DD (and me) had to go through this.

I think that like you said, you've both learned an important lesson - I think that the nurse was perhaps not used to dealing with children, as anyone I've seen with mine who's used to children - for instance when getting his vaccinations - has always told me to hold on tight before they did whatever it was, even if they didn't expect it to hurt.

The nurse was using superglue near the child, whether it was going to sting or not, the childs hands had to be kept out of the way, and she should have made sure you were aware of that rather than making assumptions.

GothAnneGeddes speaks sense, whereas LarryGrylls is a prick.

Glue is only ever not used when VERY close to the eye...eyelid etc.

Glue is ALWAYS used before steri strips. It also doesn't sting for everyone.

I'm with Milly, some of you sound incredibly joyless and yes, I'd like to meet the 8yr old who doesn't like theme parks.

I'd like to take DD to lots of places, including Disney, especially as we've never been. But then our family holiday used to be Butlins and I love that too.

Also, it's warmed my heart reading what a nice place it can be for SN kids and their parents.

And I hate camping too

Crap, wrong thread!

I hope your daughter is recovering ok

Its a difficult thing for nurses to gauge how someone will react and your dd had been in your words as good as gold up until this point she probably thought you had enough of a hold on her and that it was not going to be a problem with the glue, as she had coped so well with the cleaning etc which in itself is often quite uncomfortable

It is a hard thing to get right, if the nurse had said this is really going to hurt that may well have frightened your dd a lot before she had started, or she could have asked you to hold her tight which in itself could have distressed your dd

Nobody is to blame imo, it was an unfortunate incident. The nurse doesnt in any way sound unprofessional.