Nurse's Aide School Health Software

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Student Information
Comprehensive records, including:

• Student (and teacher) demographics (can be imported from current Student Information System)
• Contacts, including family, emergency, doctor, dentist, hospital and specialist
• Medications, including strength, dosage, time, frequency, effective dates and count (decremented)
• Procedures, with specific information needed, by type.
• Immunizations (up to 18 dates), including alerts for non-compliance
• Screenings (by individual, class or teacher) – referral, failed and abnormal reports for:

Vision
Hearing
Spinal
Height/weight and BMI (including colored CDC graphs)
Acanthosis Nigricans
Dental
Head lice

• Alerts, with confidential viewing capability for sensitive data
• Allergies
• Illnesses and Injuries (health history)
• IHPs (Individual Healthcare Plans), based on the NIC/NOC standardized nursing language, including:

Nursing Diagnoses
Desired Outcomes
Interventions
Activities
Evaluation Indicators

• Clinic visit history, with access to detailed records
• Insurance, special education and custom notations
• Student pictures capability

Clinit Visits

• Daily Scheduled Medications and Procedures Screen (including PRNs)
• Automatic date and time stamp
• Temperature and pain levels (entering and leaving clinic)
• Type of visit (daily, drop-in, phone call, injury etc.)
• Release to (class, home, doctor, emergency room, etc.)
• Tracking of on-going condition
• Extensive assessments, including:

Common complaints
Flowmeter, with pre- and post-peak flows
Glucometer, with glucose levels and ketones
Vital signs
Pulse oximeter

• Medication administration
• Procedure documentation
• Other interventions
• Review and update IHPs
• Ability to view and log multiple students at once
• Audit trail of viewing/changing/printing of records
• NIC-NOC clock reminds of pending visits
• FERPA/HIPAA tracking and compliance

Administrative Features

Extensive customization including:

• School demographics
• Facility to customize a multitude of lists used in the program
• Immunization customizations
• NIC and NOC line items selection
• Recording nurse’s administrative tasks
• Database maintenance routines
• Multiple user ID and security password protection
• Group data changes based on selection criteria
• Year-end processing functions

Reporting

• Six categories of reports:

Student
Clinic visits
Administrative
Immunizations,
Screenings
Form letters and notices

• Capability to sort reports in many ways, including multiple key sorts
• Detail and Summary reports
• Several output formats, including preview, printer, and file (Excel, html, pdf, etc.)
• Extensive selection criteria

Technology

Workstations:

• In standalone mode, the database uses Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express; in network mode, the workstation should have access to the SQL Server (via I.P. Address).
• Requires Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista or better.
• Current version of Microsoft Windows (i.e. most recent service packs and security updates).
• Pentium class processor or better.
• 800 MHz / 256M RAM (512M RAM for Vista).
• Industry standard installation.
• Runs on a Mac using Windows compatibility software.
• Runs in stand-alone or network mode.
• Approximately 10-15K per student storage requirements.
• Network connections needed for automatic download of newest code from the Nurse’s Aide website.

Server:

• Database uses SQL Server 2005, or SQL Server 2005 Express, or better.
• Requires Microsoft Windows Server 2000, 2003 or 2008 (up-to-date version).
• Pentium class PC processor or server (recommended). Note: Nurse’s Aide does not require its own server – it may “piggy-back” on an existing SQL Server installation.
• 1.4 GHz / 1G RAM (2G recommended; for over 20 schools, 4G RAM is recommended).
• Approximately 10-15K per student storage requirements (i.e. any size hard drive will probably work).