Organize all the piles of paper with this DOCUMENT SORTER!

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Hopefully Helpful School Nurse Tip: I had no idea how much paperwork would be involved when I started this school nursing journey! Read on if you can relate.

My all time favorite office supply!

If you've ever been overwhelmed by all of the piles of papers cluttering your office, then this document sorter might be for you! If you know me at all, then you know I love Amazon!

Thankfully, my school district appreciates Amazon too! In fact, my school district (and many others) have tax-exempt business accounts set up. Ask whoever is in charge of ordering your supplies if this is an option for you too. I create a shareable Amazon list to share with the district person in charge of ordering and once my request for items is approved then it is super easy for her to order the requested items! Shipping is usually fast and free which are added bonuses!

Busy school nurses understand the value of time!

Filing is something that we know needs to be done, but it will have to wait until we have a few "extra minutes", right?!

Instead of just creating stacks of papers and forms that are waiting to be filed, you can at least organize them by last name. This makes searching for that one piece of paper you know is in the pile, but you don't know where!

If you use the document sorter as a holding space until you have time to file then referencing that one paper is much easier when you can search by last name. You'll actually save yourself time :)

You can also use this hand device to organize papers by grade level, first name, specific health conditions, or form type (vision/dental) to quickly find important information when needed.

I use this item every.single.day in my office!

I purchased this document sorter / paper organizer years ago with my own money and it is one of the best office purchases I've ever made! It is a must have for all those paper piles collected at the beginning of each school year, the middle of the year, and even the at the end of each school year!

worth all of the pennies!

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Wednesday, November 2, 2016

What do I do now?

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!!