Organization

My district has electronic records & we enter all office visits in to the computer. We all LOVE it!

Your system sounds very inefficient. Why couldn't you just have daily log sheets & fill out office visits on to that. At the end of the year you could file all of your Office Visits into a file folder labeled "Office Visits 2009-2010."

The biggies shoudl be written in to the child's permanent medical record. But the bumps, scrapes, bruises, & tummy aches could just be documented on a daily log & filed grouped together by date that way.

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I think it may be a school district thing to keep track of every visit for the child, it's also nice to look and see the child's track record, but I see what you're saying.

That's awesome you have electronic charting!! I am sooo jealous! Wish I could get that implemented here. They do use a system called panther, but daily logs are not kept there.

For the minor every day stuff, I just use a "Health Room Log Book", its kinda like a grade book, I put the date time, child's name, complaint, temp, if they go back to class or home, and if I contacted parent. Anything more than that, I usually save in a folder on my computer after I type out a note.

I keep a running log on a clip board. This lets me know how many kids I see everyday and it's a quick reference if I get too busy to chart details immediately. I have a record for every student in a binder separated with alphabetical letter tabs. They fill three binders. It is very useful to track student visits and concerns all on one sheet. Without use of computers, I find it to be the next best thing.

we have an electronic system that is great but before this I used excel log sheet to file visits--much faster than paper and if you need all of one students visits you can sort by alpha and there you go!!

We do the daily logs on a clipboard, but I like the idea of a sheet per student organized by teacher. This would make it easy to see who is using (or over-using) the nurse's office on both the student and teacher level. I just might give that a shot in addition to my regular logs.

Thanks for all the feedback, this has been great. I like the excel idea, maybe I'll test that out for a day and see how it goes. I also think i'm going to do a sheet with teachers and write tallies next to them for office visits because I'm starting to get a little fishy