Teen Care Notebook

Are you a teen with a health condition that is beginning to take a more active role in your own health?

The Teen Care Notebook is a modified version of the Care Notebook for Parents which only include the things a teen might need.  It is a great way to stay on top of things and organize information about your health condition and treatments in one place. You can also use it to share information with your parents, doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals.

You can use the Teen Care Notebook to:

• Track changes in your medicines or treatments
• List phone numbers for health care providers and community organizations
• Prepare for appointments
• File information about your health history
• Share new information with your primary doctor, nurse, and others

To set up your Teen Care Notebook:

• Step 1: Gather your existing information: Gather up any health information you and your parents already have. This may include reports from recent doctor’s visits, immunization records, recent summary of a hospital stay, this year’s school plan, test results, or informational pamphlets.
• Step 2: Review the Care Notebook: Which of these pages may help you keep track of information about your health or care? Choose the pages you like. You can either print copies of any that you think you will use and fill them out by hand, or download a copy and save it to your computer so that you can easily update the pages in the future.
• Step 3: Choose what to keep in the Care Notebook: Decide what information you look up most often and what information is needed by others. Store other information in a file drawer or box where you can find it if needed.
• Step 4: Assemble your Care Notebook: The key is to make it easy for you to find the information you need, quickly and easily. Some ideas in putting your Care Notebook together include using a 3-ring binder with tabbed dividers to create your own sections, pocket dividers to store reports, and/or plastic pages to store business cards and photographs.  Or get an expandable folder if you are a "stuffer".

Care Notebook: Download the entire Teen Care Notebook or use the links below to download out a specific page.