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I document just about every kid that comes thru my doors. I may miss a bandaid here or there but I pretty much document everything. I see it as job security.
Several years ago I worked at a hospital that was doing alot of rearranging of staff and job duties. They hired a company to come in that had us basically keep track of every single thing we did during the day for a week - after they got the results back several people ended up being without a job or were transferred to other departments etc because of the information they gathered during that week. Ever since then - if I need to document something I do.
Here are a couple of lice tracking forms that I made up. If they would be helpful to anyone, I would like to share them. Sorry they are only in PDF. My computer crashed a while back and these weren't saved on my flash drive. I had shared them with another school nurse website, and had to go retrieve them from there.
Happy Tuesday-
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I would imagine that like most school nurse sites, head lice is probably a little divisive.
When you look at a child's head you are inspecting the scalp and the hair. I am always happy to do that. I do see head lice, nits new and old, ezcema, etc.
It behooves all of us to remember that head lice is a pretty unimportant health care problem among children. My personal mantra is: Head lice don't cause anything but consternation.
chasinRT
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Do you document head checks in the students record? I have a few teachers that send kids to me frequently when she sees them scratch. Should I be documenting those checks as a clinic visit? Thx in advance for your sage advice.