Screenings

[Csn2016]

I know there is a post similar to this a few down but I wanted to get some more input. How do you set up your screening schedule?

I'm trying to figure out a way to make it flow easily and I cannot quite get there. My biggest dilemma is screening my 4th and 5th graders because they actively start switching classes pretty much every 45-60 min. So I may complete one class but by the time I get to the next one they've switched classrooms and there are like 10 students that I had just screened in that class now and it just becomes a game of constantly calling classrooms/interrupting the teacher and tracking down students. The other thing I thought about doing is just over the course of a month or two, every day, call down 5 students from their homeroom first thing in the morning before they go anywhere and screen them--or does that sound ridiculous? I have very difficult time shutting down my office for even short periods of times to run screenings (tried that once, did not end well-the GI bug happened to hit like 5 kids that day and that is a nightmare I do not want to relive)

Any tips? Or is this just a hell I have to live for the next 30 years...

Screenings are my major annoyance because I like to do stuff like this in order LOL and we know that is impossible in school nursing.

[jess11RN]

20 hours ago, OldDude said:

The biggest objections and complaints I get are if the screening interferes with recess, PE/Music, library, or computer lab periods. I get no complaints if it takes away from academics.

At the elementary level, I have this issue. Middle school, is the opposite
I wonder what the difference of thought process is?

[Supernrse01, BSN]

I get the help from local vocational school students attending an LPN-RN program. They come for several weeks and work their way through each classroom, starting with Elementary and working all the way through the High School students. There are so many of them that they are able to knock the screenings out very, very quickly. It's a HUGE help to me and they earn clinical hours so it's a Win-Win situation!

[Amethya]

Also remember there's ways to do it quickly. What I do is I start at passing line, and I just let them read the first 3 letters, no go? Then go up and keep doing half. If they can read half of the line then they are good.