My school district opted to run our own dashboard, to provide real time info to parents. I have had a number of cases reported in the past 2 days to me that spiked up the number, but here is the thing, they started over vacation. So the ? is, do they go on the dashboard as + cases in my building as there does not appear to be any school connection? I can see it both ways. Noting that the school is impacted by their absence but also that there is no connection. I am all for transparency and would not like to appear that we are "hiding" cases. Thoughts? 0 Likes
k1p1ssk, BSN, RN Specializes in pediatrics, school nursing. Has 11 years experience. 660 Posts Jan 4 Maybe you can add an asterisk to the number and indicate that this number includes outside cases of students/staff that had no in-school connection? 0 Likes
NutmeggeRN, BSN Specializes in kids. Has 39 years experience. 8 Articles; 4,498 Posts Jan 4 I offered up that idea...we shall see. 0 Likes
AdobeRN 1,294 Posts Jan 4 Our district only adds the cases that were actually on campus during their "infectious period". 3 Likes
JenTheSchoolRN, BSN, RN Specializes in School nursing. 3,021 Posts Jan 11 I track all numbers, but I do separate cases to those that were tested on campus and off. For the week of break, I tracked those separately, but in the dashboard. We report our numbers weekly to staff and families. But we test A LOT on campus. So I can use these numbers to get us a weekly % rate that is I feel this is pretty decent. 0 Likes
NutmeggeRN, BSN Specializes in kids. Has 39 years experience. 8 Articles; 4,498 Posts Jan 11 We ended up leaving them but with a qualifier....and then a parent was pissed that the numbers were there but no indication/email that we were moving to masking....cannot please anyone.... 1 Likes