Vision/Hearing screenings

[luvschoolnursing, LPN]

I am in a high school of approx 1000 students. In years past, the nurses (3 of us for the district) traveled together to the different buildings to do mandated vision and hearing screenings. We could accomplish this in a couple days in each building. This year it is a bit of a problem due to no sub nurses and difficulty leaving different buildings with no nurse coverage with all the complicated health problems.

How do you do this in your district? I can't just randomly pull kids out of class for this. The teachers have been great if we let them know in advance that there will be a couple days dedicated just for screenings. Thanks for any suggestions.

[cali_nurse_1976]

Hey Luv,

I can't PM for some reason, can you send me your email and I'll respond? Thanks!

Cali

[michigooseBSN]

In our district we have a vision/hearing team of sub nurses that do the rounds screening kids in every school and the regular nurse stays in the office to tend to the students. There are actually a group of retired nurses who prefer doing the screening to subbing in the health room. I just put up the sign-up sheet for our screening that will take place over 3 days early in October. I do realize we are very fortunate to have this system in place. Good luck.