School-nursing coordinator: 106,164 visits last year as department plans data system upgrades

A presenter who oversees school nursing provided the year-end report, saying the department has 40 full- and part-time nurses covering 27 schools and logged 106,164 nurse visits during the year — about 587 visits per day and an average of nine visits per student. She said nurses administered 15,887 medications and 2,011 students had medication orders on file.

Why it matters: The numbers indicate broad demand for school nursing services and inform staffing, training and data-collection priorities that affect daily operations in classrooms and at special events.

Details: The presenter said staffing shifts this year included converting two part-time positions into one full-time role and hiring three new substitute nurses; she also noted one recent resignation reopened an opening. The department precepted nine nursing students from Sacred Heart and redesigned nurse onboarding and substitute orientation. The presenter emphasized efforts to standardize monthly reporting because inconsistent counting (for meetings, communications, or other tasks) distorts workload measures and limits usable analytics.

EHR and data plans: The presenter discussed plans to migrate off the current EHR (Infinite Campus) to a dedicated nursing database and described SNAP as a widely used, template-driven school-nurse EHR that synchronizes immunization data with CTWiz. The department considered Epic integration in collaboration with Yale but said projected costs made that infeasible; the presenter said the department will pursue SNAP or another nursing-specific database and is evaluating Paycom payroll features for policy acknowledgements.

Next steps: The department will continue data-standardization work, implement the planned EHR migration timeline (training to begin in the next fiscal year) and roll out continuing-education resources for nurses.