Clinic Survey on school website

[CrazySchoolNurse, LPN]

Because communication is soooooooo wonderful (you hear my sarcasm right)....  I pitched something to my principle.  How about/ Can we put a button on our website that the parents can push to send a message directly to me when their student is sick.  (originally someone brought it up as a joke, but really it is a good idea). All faculty and staff are going to be directed to tell parents/students that the online form must to be completed by a parent in order for the virtual day be excused and receive credit for that day.  If its not done regardless if they attend class or not they get a zero for that day.  Harsh yes, but necessary.  We have student staying home just because they don't feel like getting dressed that day, and parents will enable them.  VERY FRUSTRATING!  

Has anyone done something similar? Could you share your ideas?

I am doing a Google survey, this will help me keep better track of students and symptoms as well as who I need to follow up with.   It has been an absolute nightmare trying to keep up with all these "sick" students.  

I am going to have the standard questions : symptoms, when did they start, of course COVID questions, etc.   What other suggestions do you all have? 

[Eleven011]

The problem we would have here (and other places I assume would too), is there are people in our community without computers and/or internet access to be able to do this.   When we went virtual last Spring, we went above and beyond by hand delivering laptops, offering to pay for internet, ect. and still some students were never getting reached.   So as time saving as this would seem, there would still be a group calling in and then...I would think it'd be a bigger headache.  

[CrazySchoolNurse, LPN]

@Eleven011

We are a small private school so we are fortunate enough to provide computers to every student. 

As bad as this is to say I have a lot of spoiled teenagers that go to this school who run their households not the parents.   The hopes is that once the parents see that Little Johnny or Little Jane is no - longer getting credit for the class they attended virtually when they are an in-person student the non-sense would at least calm down.  It is just getting way out of control. 

[ruby_jane, BSN, RN]

Ah, the parents who are privileged enough to cater to the every need of sweet baby. Their sweet babies are gonna have a transition problem come college.

If you figure this out - let us know. It would save some time on the phone, wouldn't it? What we've discovered (as a lot of you have) is that parents are calling in kids with one symptom, and when we call back to quarantine the kid for 10 days, parent walks their story back to "oh, they didn't feel good/stayed up too late on the X-box/what have you." So, I don't know which truth to believe, ma'am.

[JenTheSchoolRN, BSN, RN]

We mark students absent when students don't log on. Absence call goes out daily to notify parents. Parents can call in students sick - those usually get passed to me. We don't have a survey on the website - that is a pretty good idea though! I have been toying with the idea of setting up a general nursing or reporting students are sick email address / Google form. 

We do hold students very accountable for logging on remotely. All our students have a chromebook assigned to me that they must use to access classes; we have given hotspots out to any family requesting and checked in with every family no logging on to see if internet is the issue. We have a way to return broken chromebooks and to get students a new one.

We also deliver any necessary things to students/families - we have weekly grocery drops (families can sign up) and I've personally made drops offs (we have a crew of us doing this). This is due to us having two dedicated staff at our school whose job is only family engagement - so important right now. 

[ruby_jane, BSN, RN]

2 minutes ago, JenTheSchoolRN said:

We also deliver any necessary things to students/families - we have weekly grocery drops (families can sign up) and I've personally made drops offs (we have a crew of us doing this). This is due to us having two dedicated staff at our school whose job is only family engagement - so important right now. 

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[Mavnurse17, BSN, RN]

It also grinds my gears when people abuse a system that's put in place for helping out, but imho you'd be taking on a lot of work by surveilling these people on top of all the other stuff I'm sure you probably have your hands full with.  

As a rule of thumb, I'm not keeping tabs on my virtual kids who simply don't sign on to their Zoom rooms on any given day.  If the parent or teacher follows up with me that the student actually tested positive, I follow back up with them to get the info I need for documenting and reporting purposes.  

I'm more concerned with surveilling general illness symptoms in my students and staff that are in-person.  That keeps me busy enough.  I would have no sanity left if I were also picking up the kids that had sniffles on Zoom.  

Just sayin', if it's a requirement for you to do health surveillance on the virtual sick students, then this sounds like a decent idea.  But if it's just to "catch" the kids that might be abusing the system, I wouldn't take on that extra work.