What would your dream clinic look like

The Illinois Resource Guide for
Healthy High Performing School Buildings has a section on school health offices and is available for download:
http://healthyschoolscampaign.org/ilhhpsb/

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Articles on recommendations for constructing school nurse offices
were in the June 2005 issue of The Journal of School Nursing. NASN
members can access these articles online from the NASN website in the
journal section



* Cooper, Leslie. 2005: New Construction, Renovation and Remodeling: What
School Nurses Have Learned From Planning New Health Office Facilities. The
Journal of School Nursing: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 170-175.


* Mosca, Nancy W. 2005: School Nurse Work Environment: Ingredients for Safe
and Effective Practice. The Journal of School Nursing: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp.
129-131.


* McKibben, Cynthia S., DiPaolo, Sonja J., Bennett, J. Scott. 2005:
Recommendations for Constructing School Nurses' Offices Designed to Support
School Health Services. The Journal of School Nursing: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp.
164-169.

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I would love an office with "stations", or different areas for different functions. A counter next to the sink for first aid, with cabinet storage above, would be great. A tall bookshelf for storage. At least 2 cots with a divider in between. A row of child's chairs for kids waiting to be seen or screened. A separate area for screening. Locking closet for med storage. Two adult size chairs across from my desk for parent/teacher conferences. Storage, storage, storage.

This will never happen at my school, but hey, a girl can dream, right?

What purple scrubs said plus a full bathroom!

I would love a closet to store medical records and extra supplies in. But, more than anything, I would love, love, love to have an enclosed area made of windows that my office/desk would be inside so that I can make confidential phone calls without the entire clinic full of kids listening! Our high school nurse has this & I'm so envious.

I subbed in 3 districts before I took this job in an elementary school and saw some wonderful additions to nurses offices! I also as in some woefully inadequate spaces (mine currently is the WORST - 1 cot for 600 kids!).

The things I would love to have right now besides more space include one of those eyewash "bubblers" attached to the plumbing in the sink so that all the student has to do is lean into the running water. I would also love a magnifiying light for splinters and lice checks. An isolation room (especially now! Don't even ask what I am doing with ILI kids....). I would love a cot that can be raised to a decent height to do personal care on my g tube student. Two seperate work areas - one for business/ one for treating kids.

One school I worked in had a "diabetic room" - it was a back office and each diabetic had his or her own cabinet with a long counter under them. Taped to the cabinet was the treatment plan with telephone numbers for reaching the parents. The cabinet held all the testing supplies, snacks, and the each student's log to record blood sugars. It was a wonderful set up! I'm pretty sure this set-up could work well for asthmatics too!

Our district middle school is 3 years old and when I have to go there for meetings I feel like I am in School Nurse Disney World!