Can the screening results reported on a physical (Health certificate) be recorded as the mandated screening for the school year?
If the physician, nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant notes the screening results in a manner that you can be reasonably sure that an adequate screening has been completed, you may transcribe the results from the physical to the student’s cumulative health record. The student would not need to be screened again at school. The examiner would need to note the Vision Screening results as follows: “20/20 R, 20/20 L” – or something in a similar format rather that just writing “Pass”. Hearing screening should read: “Pass 20 db sc” for the screening so that you know that a sweep check was done at 20 decibels. If the examiner simply writes “Pass” you can’t be sure of what screening was done and the reported results should not be used for the school screening.
