Meet Nurse Emily

    Our school is served by a registered nurse.   The school health services include direct care of the ill or injured, control of communicable disease, health appraisals, health education and health counseling services.

HEALTH AND APPRAISAL SCREENING:
Vision and hearing screening for grades K, 1, 3, 5 plus any new and referred students. ACN screening for grades 3 and 5. Spinal Screening for grade 5. Other screenings by referral from parent or teacher.

MEDICATIONS and TREATMENTS

The school does not buy or keep any medications. To give medication or treatments at school the student's illness or condition necessitates adminstration during school hours.  A written authorization from parents including student name, date, name and dose of medication, time and reason to give, and parent signature; should accompany any medication sent to school.  Students and parents are responsible for bringing all medications to the health room.  The medications will be kept locked in there and dispensed to the students as per the instructions.  Students in elementary schools are NOT allowed to keep medications with them. Student's may carry rescue inhalers. They should have a current medication authorization given to the nurse.

All medications have to be FDA approved, dose appropriate for the child, in orginal container with pharmacy label intact.  Supplements, experimental medication or therapies, prescription by physicians not licensed in USA, doses in excess recommended amounts and mixtures of unknown or unapproved content will not be administered.  The nurse will refuse to administer any drug if contraindicated.  

A physician request and signature is necessary for long term therapies, injections, and controlled substances.  Parents have to provide a new physician's order at the beginning of each school year and every time there is a change in dose or schedule of treatment.  Doctors may fax it to the school.  School needs permission to consult the prescribing physician if needed. Over the counter medication can be given only for 5 days without a physician's order.

ILLNESS OR INJURY
Current emergency numbers are essential to notify you!
School personnel provide temporary care. The principal designates the provider  in the absence of a registered nurse. Transportation is not available other than that usually provided. Emergency medical services may be called if indicated. The school district is not responsible for cost of medical or dental care or emergency transport.

Students are sent home if:
-Evidence of communicable disease;
-Persistent diarrhea, vomiting, unexplained rashes, temperature of 100.4 or more;
-Sores of ringworm or impetigo that can not be covered, signs of active lice;
-Red eyes with drainage, pain, and light sensitivity;
-Any serious or uncontrolled bleeding; Serious injuries;
-Any student who is too ill or uncomfortable to participate in the learning activities;
-Persistent cough ot itching that interferes with student's ability to funcion or disrupting class.

IMMUNIZATIONS

The school maintains a record of the required immunizations. At the time of enrollment, all students enrolling for the first time in a Texas school must present proof of their complete or on schedule immunization status for all the state mandated immunizations. There is NO grace period. Physicians, school, or health department records are acceptable proof.

A student can be enrolled provisionally for no more than 30 days if he/she transfers from a Texas school to another, and is awaiting transfer of the immunization record.

All students entering from a foreign country must provide tuberculosis testing results done with in the past three months.
Requests for exemptions have to be made in compliance with the state law.

Minimum State Vaccine Requirement for Texas school Attendance

Grades Kindergarten through 5