Medical Visit Should Mark Attendance

When a Nurse checks a student into the Nurse's Office for a visit I think that it should automatically mark the student absent from all of their classes until they are checked out. 

Having to check a student into the Nurse's Office and then also mark them absent from class in another part of the system seems to be an unnecessary redundancy. 

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  • Feb 16 2017
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  • Karola Trockenbrodt commented
    February 14, 2023 15:57

    "Yes" to the initial post and to all comments from 2018.

    Our after school staff would appreciate it.

    It would also be amazing if teachers could see how many times a student was at the nurse's office that day already. Sometimes students are being sent to the nurse every time a teacher is new in class that day. Maybe even with a field for notes like, "parents contacted" or "medication given", or "Covid-19 neg." and the notes disappear at the end of that day but remain in the Medical file of the student.

  • Guest commented
    June 01, 2018 14:01

    This sounds like a great feature, although I think Blackbaud should have a pop up or button asking you if you also wanted to mark them absent from current/future classes because it is plausible that a student may leave class to see a nurse and then return in short order within the period of a class.

  • Guest commented
    March 08, 2018 14:11

    Additionally, if the nurse indicates that the Outcome within a Visit is that the student is sent home, that should tie into the student's attendance.  The student should automatically be marked as a default absence type beginning at the time marked "Time out" in the recorded Visit.