IHPs

[Schoolnurse73]

Do your districts have guidelines to who should have an IHP?

[AdobeRN]

That sounds like a lot of IHP's how many students are on your campus?[/quote

Close to 800 kids - I have maybe 30-40 IHP's if that....they are very generic, we have templates for the major issues of diabetes, asthma, ADHD etc - I mainly use those and just tweak them a bit. Only need to do them from scratch if it is something unusual. Once written I update them yearly - so that is not much work.

[SchoolNursey]

We have to do an IHP for any student with a medical diagnosis that takes medication (even medication at home). It is a lot. I struggle to keep up.

[NutmeggeRN, BSN]

We have to do an IHP for any student with a medical diagnosis that takes medication (even medication at home). It is a lot. I struggle to keep up.

I would have them on so many if we did home meds...what is the rationale for that?

[JenTheSchoolRN, BSN, RN]

I would have them on so many if we did home meds...what is the rationale for that?

I was thinking the same thing. And what does this accomplish? Does anyone read all of them besides the person that writes them?

I have a few IHPs for specific students and frankly they often morph into a medical 504 plan by the time the student hits HS.

We have a general allergy action protocol, for example, that I find much more effective than any IHP for a student with only an allergy that might require an Epi-pen. That action plan hangs in every classroom so a teacher can reference it. Same thing with our seizure action plan. I suppose the IHP would read "give Epi-pen for xyz symptoms. Allergy action plan up in classroom for teacher reference."

[bsyrn, ASN, RN]

We have to do an IHP for any student with a medical diagnosis that takes medication (even medication at home). It is a lot. I struggle to keep up.

OMG I would never get done...that is crazy. Did anyone with any medical training come up with that?