Immunization Reports

Royalyn Andrus at West Jordan Elementary posted the following:

I am confused about compliance for immunizations.

It seems that the recommended timing for certain immunizations on the Skyward report differs from actual requirements. I wonder if the parameters can be changed so the report does not show that a child is out of compliance, when he or she is in reality, not out of compliance.

For instance, on Hep. B, Skyward has instituted the “6 month rule” which applies to the Hep A vaccine, but not to the Hep B vaccine. Hep B vaccines should be at least 1 month between the 1^st and 2^nd shot, at least 2 months between the 2^nd and 3^rd (ideally it should be 4 months or more). At least 4 months should go by between the 1^st and 3^rd shots.

What this means is that if a child’s doctor is following recommended procedures for giving immunizations and we enter those dates, our Skyward report shows that the child is out of compliance, when he really is not.

Also, we enter immunizations according to what parents have written on the pink immunization card. If they have made up dates or transposed dates, we have no way of knowing that until the report shows up “non compliant”.

The varacella immunization is required on or after the 1^st birthday, but if the student was given the vaccine before their 1^st birthday, it shows them out of compliance. Do they really need another dose?

Also, the MMR rules don’t match. Each child should get 2 doses of MMR, the first at 12-15 months and the second at 4-6 years of age. However, when immunizations are entered this way, students come up as non-compliant,

Are the Skyward parameters too restrictive? Can we change that?

Posted by Jen on 11/6/08

Why is Skyward not printing financial reports? Every time I try to print one of the many reports (A-H) for reconciliation I hit print it goes out to a blank screen with a timer and stays forever. So you have to click the little X click "My Print Queue" find your report then reprint. I don't have enough time to double every step I do on Skyward. The program is getting worse with time not better. I hate to think how much money was sunk in this program and company.

November 6, 2008 1:00 PM

We were entering hearing screening results today. When we finished and tried to print labels, the formatting on the labels was wrong. After several tries and a lot of frustration, we finally (always the last resort) called Information Systems. We found that the label part of the program is broken, it has been reported and the programmers will have it fixed next week. That is wonderful, but by next week, all the hearing screening information that we entered will be lost and we will have to re-enter everything.

Is there a way that Information Systems could e-mail all the secretaries as soon as they find out there is a problem like that, so we don't all waste our time?

Did this happen to anyone else? Are we the only ones who get mad about things like this?

When doing vaccination reports, the report shows a student is out of compliance when only 1 vaccination is required for chicken pox according to the 08/09 State Vaccination Guidelines. Can this be fixed?

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