It's fall & I'm a new school nurse- What do I do?

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Hopefully Helpful School Nurse Tip: I'm a maker of lists! I do this because I think I'll remember all of the details, but I know I won't remember all of the details. So, this post lists a few items I completed during a random month in 2016- October!

By now you've should have a handle on your new student required health paperwork & you should have all forms turned in or students on an approved schedule. I keep track of my "in-series" kiddos on a Google drive sheet!
My typical weekly follow up cases include- doctor related PE excuse notes, concussion status, & vision and hearing re-screens. For these situations I use the old-school "piles on my desk" tracking system! I will say the piles are organized, clipped together, and labeled; for now this sort of system seems to work :)
I'm getting ready to schedule the yearly dental clinic. We usually see 80-100 students over a span of three days.
I'm also re-vamping the system I use to track IEP students who have a primary or secondary label of OHI & would love to hear if any of you have a system already in place- please share :) *update- in 2020 I came up with a Google sheet. You can download it for FREE here.
I'm also enjoying the GREAT, WARM weather we've been having in Illinois & look forward to watching the CUBS WIN game 7 tonight!!