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I am taking a class in grad school and I have to come up with specific and relevant problems I would like to see improved or changed in my practice setting as a school nurse. The problem has to be measurable and I have to identify data that suggest a problem exists. Any suggestions??

I work for a middle school 900 students. It's a title 1 school 97% have free or reduced lunch. It's in inner-city school here in Wichita. NOt in the greatest neighborhoods lots of crime.

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Specializes in School Nurse.

How about screening referral returns. You screened __# of students __# Failed __# referred __# referrals returned. What you did to increase the number of returned referrals.

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Specializes in kids.

How about looking at your epi pen kids.

How many?

How many canself inject?

How many need teaching to become indepenedant?

How many can self inject after teaching?

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It's not awful, but a little time consuming-take the School Health Index Assessment and see what areas your school has the most need for:

https://www.cdc.gov/healthyschools/shi/index.htm

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Take a sample of your asthmatics. See how many absences they have had. Provide asthma education and see if their absentee rate goes down but the end of the time period.

I am getting involved with our vision screening referrals this year because there was a poor follow-up last year. I am doing exactly what tining suggested. I am looking at the referrals returns from last year and will send letters and call students this year and compare return rates. I am in a very similar school demographic.

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