Last Updated on March 27, 2024 by Faisal Khan
The efficient presentation of comprehensive health care to children and teens is made possible in large part by the school nurse. A growing number of kids enroll in schools with ongoing medical issues that need to be managed during the academic day. The school nurse’s role as a team member in delivering preventive services, early issue detection, interventions, and referrals to promote health and academic achievement is described for pediatricians in this policy statement. Preparation, continuous education, and adequate staffing levels of school nurses are crucial components for success in providing children with the best care possible.
Recommendations help the school nurse and the child’s medical home communicate more easily. The National Association of School Nurses has endorsed this claim.
School Nurse connects with the EduHealth Student Information System Suite as well as with any other student management system, making it the most technologically sophisticated student health software currently on the market.
Scheduling Appointments
helps with daily appointment scheduling and includes templates for certain conditions and step-by-step instructions for treatments.
Monitoring vaccinations
keeps track of each student’s vaccines for state compliance. When vaccinations are necessary, refills are required, or inventory is low, the system sends an alert. When vaccinations were administered to pupils and if immunization appointments were missed can be determined by the nursing staff.
Tracking of Medical Disorders
uses drop-down boxes to display particular medical issues, including a list of chronic conditions with categories given by the state for monitoring medical conditions throughout the whole student body. By electronically recording all health information, the technology enables student body health checks. Start date and optional end date are used to enter conditions.
Screenings
It is simple to create reports and screening referral letters for a specific student or group of students based on whether they passed, failed, weren’t tested, needed rechecks, or were recommended.
Student health alerts provide staff with a configurable symbol, sound, or screen message to let them know when a student receives a health alert. They also include a freeform comment box where staff may provide details about the alarm. Alerts may be marked as confidential and restricted for viewing to nursing personnel only.
Competence in comprehensive reporting
Produces almost any type of custom report or documentation required in your district’s administrative or health offices, as well as state-mandated reports, such as those on demographics, immunization, medication dispensing, referrals, special needs, year-end reports, full health records, appointment schedules, and event logs.
Creation of referral letters
Creates personalized recommendation letters that may be printed right from the system.
Network Integration
Tracks retrieve, and update student health information directly through your district’s student management system, assuring accuracy and removing redundant records across different systems.
Functionality
Track all student medical histories and visits in real-time, and automatically detect at-risk pupils by screening for height and weight using percentiles and BMI.
- Keep track of vaccination schedules and status, and receive warnings when vaccines are past due, missed, or the supply is low.
- Schedule daily medicine automatically, with alarms and warnings to let you know when the appropriate amount is running low.
- Create and publish individualized student, medication, condition, or district-wide health reports for state compliance.
- Create and print personalized emergency cards, screening referral letters, vaccine form letters, and other reports for a single kid or group.
- View the history of changes made, including when and who made changes to a student’s health information.
- Complete adherence to FERPA and HIPAA requirements
EduHealth believes that the best way to guarantee a solid link with each student’s medical home is to have a full-time school nurse at every school. By meeting the Healthy People 2010 target, which stipulates that districts should hire at least 1 nurse per 750 pupils, with variance based on the neighborhood and school population, interim steps toward realizing this goal can be achieved. High percentages of kids with exceptional health needs necessitate more intense nurse-to-student ratios, such as 1 nurse for every 225 students for daily professional nursing services or interventions and 1 nurse for every 125 for severe medical requirements.
Every school has a school nurse, which makes it easier for the school doctor to deliver the coordinated care that every kid needs.
EduHealth encourages and promotes the continuous close collaboration between pediatricians, school nurses, and school doctors. These partners support the creation of a coordinated school health program, promote each child’s access to a medical home, and combine health, education, and social services for children at the local level in an effort to enhance the health of children and youth. A well-coordinated school health program, which includes school nurses, helps to address the needs of the complete child and promote academic achievement. That’s why we are the best school nurse health system in the USA.
