- Before
- Two buildings, 600 entry-grade records and exclusion day in nine days, with cards she cannot read and dose dates to retype.
- Now
- Opens the dose beads, sees each dose read, cited and checked for spacing, and spends her time confirming determinations and approving letters.
One record from Ukraine, checked against school immunization requirements
Wednesday, October 21, 2026, at Marlow Bay Unified School District. Exclusion day at Kelsworth Middle School is October 30, nine days away, and 41 of its 412 entry-grade records are incomplete. Seventh grader Oksana P., enrolled September 8 with Ukrainian as her home language, brought her vaccination card to the health office yesterday. Here is how school immunization requirements are checked for her, dose by dose, with the nurse deciding.
- 019:42 AM
Every student a row of dose beads
Ellen Marchetti-Obi, RN · School nurseEllen covers Kelsworth Middle School and Harbor Point Elementary. Across the top of her students: Kelsworth, 41 incomplete, exclusion day Oct 30; Harbor Point, 23 incomplete, exclusion day Nov 6. Each required vaccine is a string of beads against the grade's state schedule, and Oksana's MMR string shows one verified dose and one struck through.
Filled: verified. Hollow: missing. Half-filled: provisional. Struck through: given, does not count. Dashed ring: exemption.
- 02Overnight
The Ukrainian card, read beside the English
Record readerLuis Ferreira-Hahn scanned the card (form 063/о, 3 pages) with her September 15 clinic printout. The Record reader transcribed 14 doses, mapped КПК to MMR, and put each line in Cyrillic beside the English, cited to its place on the card, at confidence 0.97.
“КПК V2, 05.04.2015: MMR dose 2, Apr 5, 2015, 22 days after dose 1 (minimum 28), does not count.”
- 03Overnight
Checked for spacing, not just counted
Schedule checkerAgainst schedule 2026–27 v3 for grade 7, the Schedule checker tested minimum age, minimum interval, live-vaccine spacing, the grace period and the oral polio rule. Dose 2 came on day 22; the minimum is day 28 and the 4-day grace period starts on day 24, so it does not count. Tdap, MenACWY, varicella, hepatitis B and polio all meet the schedule.
Drafted determination: incomplete, 1 MMR dose needed. A valid dose can be given any day; her last live vaccine was in 2015.
- 046:00 AM
The card, the SIS and the state registry, side by side
Registry reconcilerThe nightly registry pull holds only Oksana's two September 15 clinic doses, so there is nothing to resolve for her. Across Ellen's schools it found 6 disagreements, such as Mateo R.'s Tdap, dated Aug 14, 2025 on the card and in the registry but Aug 14, 2026 in the SIS, with a proposal to correct the SIS at confidence 0.96.
Nothing changes until the nurse decides.
- 05Signed
The nurse signs the determination
Ellen Marchetti-Obi, RN · School nurseEllen compares “КПК 05.04.2015” on the card with the English row, opens the sign-off and sees the proposal from the Schedule checker with its three citations. She picks the reason code and signs. Only then are the verified doses written to the SIS health module.
Reason code: Dose interval short (ACIP minimum). Signed as Ellen Marchetti-Obi, RN, School Nurse, Oct 21, 2026.
- 06Seconds later
The letter home, in Ukrainian with English beside it
Notice writerThe Notice writer drafts the family's letter in Ukrainian with the English beside it: Oksana needs one more MMR dose by November 3, free at the Westshore Immunization Clinic on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3–7 PM. A back-translation check scores 0.98. The draft waits for Ellen's approval.
Draft, needs approval.
- 079:46 AM
Twenty letters, approved in one pass
Ellen Marchetti-Obi, RN · School nurseOksana's is the 20th notice drafted today. Each shows the home language beside English and names the exact dose: Rizal M. in Tagalog for polio, Sofia D. in Spanish for varicella, Bao T. in Vietnamese asking for a clearer copy of page 2. Ellen approves one or many, and they go out through the family messaging platform.
- 08Nine days out
The nurse recommends; only the principal excludes
Clock keeperThe Clock keeper counts down every provisional clock: 41 students incomplete, 9 with an appointment booked, about 14 expected still missing. District procedure HS-07 requires 10 school days' notice of the exact dose, so Oksana's exclusion date moves to November 4. The final list is built 2 school days ahead, Ellen recommends it, and principal Marcus Delacroix-Bell decides.
Agents never exclude: the Clock keeper builds the list, the school nurse recommends, the principal approves.
- 09Before Dec 1
The state report, from approved records only
Teresa Vandermolen, RN · District nurse coordinatorThe State report preparer compiles kindergarten (3,480 records, 88.0% complete) and grade 7 (3,710 records, 87.9% complete) from nurse-approved records only. A nurse who approved none of them checks a random 25, and all 25 agree. Teresa signs and files through the state health reporting portal.
- 10Any time
Who decided, when, and on what evidence
Helen Ruiz-Tanaka · Compliance auditorEvery person, agent and system action is a line with its reason and its citation: the Record reader's transcription, Ellen's sign-off with the reason code, the Notice writer's draft, the write-back to the SIS and the 06:00 registry pull. The auditor filters by people, agents or disclosures and exports the pack for the state health department.