{"id":45,"date":"2019-07-02T13:40:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T13:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/123formbuilder.polarbuildingcleaning.net\/blog\/how-online-forms-can-foster-collaboration-in-school-health-care"},"modified":"2022-05-12T13:33:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T13:33:56","slug":"how-online-forms-can-foster-collaboration-in-school-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/123formbuilder.polarbuildingcleaning.net\/blog\/how-online-forms-can-foster-collaboration-in-school-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"It Takes a Village: How Online Forms Can Foster Collaboration in School Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"

To paraphrase a famous African proverb, looking after the well-being of the young is a responsibility too large for parents to handle alone. The wider community must band together to nurture its children toward healthy, productive adulthood.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are a school nurse, guidance counselor, school social worker, or other school health services staff member, you are especially poised to help children stay healthy or treat injuries and illnesses. Your combination of health care qualifications and access to parents, teachers, and physicians uniquely enables you to coordinate adults toward the common goal of keeping students healthy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Uniting the Village for Students\u2019 Mental and Physical Health<\/b><\/h3>\n

In the United States, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) has put together a framework known as <\/span>Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Chi<\/span>ld<\/span> (WSCC). This initiative seeks \u201cintegration and collaboration between education leaders and health sectors to improve each child\u2019s cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The successful application of the WSCC model depends on communication between the community and school and among teachers and school health care providers. With the right resources in place, parents can request preventive services, teachers can refer students to physicians or mental health counselors and providers can brief one another on a child\u2019s prior treatment. Online forms<\/a> are a powerful way to link students with the care they need.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Online Forms: Tools for Health Collaboration<\/b><\/h3>\n

Today, any healthcare encounter begins with an intake form of some kind. By going paperless with your forms, you can serve your students better. First of all, you will free up one-on-one time with students because you will no longer need to file papers. Second, online forms<\/a> make it easy to consolidate information so that you can report back to the parents and teacher or forward information to the next school (e.g., elementary to middle, middle to high school).<\/span><\/p>\n

Before you proceed with moving more information online, be sure to assess your readiness to store health data securely (especially if you’re governed by HIPAA where you’ll need\u00a0HIPAA-compliant forms<\/a>).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s consider a few examples:<\/span><\/p>\n