School Health Information
HEALTH CONCERNS: Please inform your school nurse of any severe allergies, surgeries, accidents, or new health problems. Please make sure that if your child requires an emergency medication, such as an epi pen or seizure medication, you bring one to leave at school.
MEDICATIONS: If a child, by order of a physician, must receive medication in school, a parent and physician signature must be provided before administering medications. Therefore, a prescription label IS NOT acceptable in place of a physician’s order. A written order must be obtained. This includes all medications such as ADHD meds, seizure meds, and emergency medications like an epi pen or inhaler, or other OTC medications that are not listed in our school registration medical form.
A medication authorization form must be completed and signed by the physician and the parent. This form is available in the office. The medication must be in its original container with an appropriate date (you can ask the pharmacy for an extra bottle if needed) and brought to school by the parent/guardian. STUDENTS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BRING THE MEDICATION IN THEMSELVES, NOR WILL MEDICATIONS BE SENT HOME WITH STUDENTS. Only parents/guardians will be allowed to pick up medications. No exceptions.
ANTIBIOTICS: Antibiotics will not be given at school unless they are required to be given 4x daily and must have a written medication school administration authorization form from the doctor.. If a prescription is written for your child for 3 x daily, please space out times accordingly while your child is in your care. This includes oral, topical, ophthalmic (eye), and otic (ear) medications.
ILLNESS: Please contact the school office in the morning if your child is absent and inform them why he/she is not attending. If your child has been ill, he/she should be free of a temperature, without medication, for 24 hours before returning to school.
If your child is diagnosed with any of the following communicable diseases, please notify the school: strep throat, chicken pox, scabies, impetigo, head lice, hands, foot and mouth, pink eye, viral illness, and Fifth’s Disease. The exclusion time for each is:
Strep Throat and Impetigo- 24 hours after initial dose of antibiotic
Chicken Pox- 7 Days or until lesions are crusted over
Scabies/Ringworm- 24 hours after initial dose of medication
Pink Eye (Conjunctivitis) – 24 hours after initial dose of medication
Fifth’s Disease- 24 hours fever-free or MD discretion
Head Lice- after hair has been treated and cleared byschool nurse (If lice are still present, then the student must have a doctor's slip that states the student is clear of head lice. Any slip without that statement will not be accepted)
Vomiting/Diarrhea- 24 hours without any episodes(If sent home from school vomiting, students are excluded from school for the following school day.) ]
Any unidentified rash will need a doctor's note clearing the student to be at school.
Hands, Foot and Mouth- Dr. Note clearing to return to school
Fever- Must be fever-free for 24 hours without giving fever-reducing medication