BLS Nursing Blog
FUN FACT
Black Friday, aka the day after Thanksgiving, is the busiest day for plumbers.
Sure, it’s a big day for shoppers—but don’t forget the drainage professionals. Plumbing and drainage companies don’t really get the Friday after Thanksgiving off since it’s one of their busiest days of the year. (Why? We think you can imagine.) In fact, the day is so busy for these services that Roto-Rooter Plumbing and Water Cleaning company actually calls it “Brown Friday.”
ABSENTEEISM
Chronic Student Absenteeism
Six Hidden (and Not-So-Hidden) Factors Driving America’s Student Absenteeism Crisis
CONCUSSION UPDATES
District Concussion Numbers
These numbers will now be reported in the BLS Nursing Blogs on the first Monday of each month.
DEI
November 16, 2023
Pilot Butte Middle School
Dinner 5:30, opening 6:00, sessions 6:30-7:45
DIABETES
From Erica Anderson:
The entire month of November is Diabetes Awareness Month. Give those around you fighting this disease an extra squeeze this month.
HEALTH MANAGEMENT PLANS
Seizure HMP
If you are having difficulty printing the seizure HMP, try the following steps (sent by Steph Campbell).
To print the seizure HMP, hit print, select advanced, on the upper right corner there is an option that allows to check Print As Image. Check mark that then hit ok. This should allow the seizure HMP to print with all the info.
SPED
- SPED – Although nurses upload student health management plans under the “document” tab in Synergy, if the student is also receiving SPED services, please send the health management plan to the records clerks to upload into the SPED area in Synergy. Some health plans are not getting to case managers and have not been uploaded on the SPED side.
- [email protected] (Please indicate that the HMP needs to be uploaded with the SPED documents.)
Discontinuing Health Management Plans
If a parent indicates that their student no longer needs a health management plan for health conditions such as seizures, asthma, life threatening allergy, please ask them to have their student’s health care provider write a note indicating that a HMP is no longer needed.
- Do you need to go through every condition and start calling parent/guardian? Tami encourages this but it is not a priority. Moving forward, please inform parents/guardians that a note is needed. If they refuse, please note that in the health conditions comment section in Synergy but do not delete the health condition. Please continue to have a current health management plan in the Synergy documents. If the parent refuses to sign the HMP, just note that in the parent signature line (include the date).
HEALTH CONDITIONS
Earliest Return to School Date
- When you are in Synergy and come across a student with a health condition of “earliest return to school date”, please delete that condition. That was for back in our COVID fun times.
- OR…if you have an abundance of free time, you can run a report that identifies students with these health conditions. Substitute nurses can do this as well.
Health Condition Comments
- Expired notes that are still present in health conditions.
- Condition has expired but has comments.
- Example: If a student had encopresis in 2nd grade and the condition resolved, end date the condition. When running a health conditions report (HLT401), at the bottom of the page, you will see “Display Options”, select “Suppress Expired Conditions” and “Suppress Conditions with any Expiration Date”. When you run the report, that condition and comments will not show up.
- Condition has expired but has comments.
- Condition is still active but comments are outdated.
- Example: Asthma, comments are “8/26/19 Student has note from MD to self-carry inhaler and take 2 puffs pre PE.”
- End date the asthma and start new asthma condition. Comments could say, “self carries inhaler, see HMP”
IMMUNIZATIONS
Kindergarten Exclusion – THIS THURSDAY!!!
From Michelle –
Thursday, November 16, 2023
I am attaching the wonderful video created by Nurse Molly (it’s at the bottom of this email) that walks you thru how to run the HLT 414 report to determine which students are not up to date.
She also explains the HLT 217 report. This report is optional and used only if you would like to send letters out to parents or students who are not up to date instead of calling or messaging them.
Run the HLT 414 report.
Check the box for kindergarten students
Assessment date – 11/16/23
Cutoff date – 12/31/23
Exclusion date – 11/16/23
Click Insufficient, Incomplete and No Record when running report
Print a copy of your report so you can use it to make notes on it such as when phone calls were made, mail sent and when students were updated.
INCOMPLETE Students: Means they are not up to date. Check Alertiis for any new immunizations that you can update. Check that the CSI signature box has been checked.
INSUFFICIENT Students: Always is a “data input error”. The dates are in the wrong order, or the student’s birth date is entered incorrectly.
If you are a new secretary or new nurse with the district, please sign up for Alertiis so that you can check student immunization records from the state. Use the link below and call the Alertiis Help Desk to be added as a user.
https://www.alertiis.org/ORPRD/portalInfoManager.do
Let me know if you have any questions and Thank you everyone!
Molly Video on reports and letters 1.mov
MEETINGS/TRAININGS
Mandatory nurse staff /meetings trainings on the following non-school days
- Friday, February 2, 2024
- Thursday, April 11, 2024
- Friday, April 12, 2024
OSNA
Communities of Practice
- Mentoring Monday 11/27/23, 330-5pm (Register here.)
- Power Hour – Thursday, 11/16/23, 330-5pm (Register here.)
- Special Topics Cafe – Wednesday, 12/6/23, 330-5 (Register here.)
LINKS
AED Supply Order Form – Complete this form to request any AED supplies.
All About You Form – Please complete the form so Tami can know more about you.
BLS Nurse Check-in Survey Form – Having a stressful week? Need some extra support? Suggestions for nurse meeting ideas.
Concussion Brain Injury Reporting Form
Nurse Meeting Topics – Please enter meeting topic/training information you would like to see in the spreadsheet.
OHA: Oregon Respiratory Virus Data: COVID-19, Influenza, RSV
OSNA – Communities of Practice
Return to School Project, Concussion/Brain Injury Reporting Form
UKG – How to log extra hours in UKG after the pay period has ended can be found here. *Must have prior approval from Tami.
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Well???? How successful were you with last week’s challenge with checking out for a full 30-minute lunch break? ?
If you were successful with checking out for at least 1 lunch break, you are on the right track! If you didn’t quite make your goal, make it a goal for this week!
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