[TD=colspan: 2]an independent school district shall adopt a policy requiring a
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[TD=colspan: 2]school nurse of a public elementary school who determines or
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[TD=colspan: 2]otherwise becomes aware that a child enrolled in the school has lice
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[TD=colspan: 2]shall provide written or electronic notice of that fact to:
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This is an excerpt from SB 1566 which passed into law in Texas on 9/1/17. Here's my question to other Texas School Nurses specifically but I always welcome input from others.
Have you guys ever seen a clarification or received input from "associations" as to what the definition of "otherwise becomes aware?"
For instance, have I "otherwise become aware" if a parent tells a teacher they have treated their child for head lice and the teacher tells me?
In other words can "hearsay" be a legitimate mechanism to "otherwise become aware...of that fact..." as written in the law above and trigger the legal requirement for parent notices of head lice in a classroom?
so i should share - Mistah Flare was watching one of those crime shows this am (csi, ncis, something) and their hard evidence that the guy was there on the scene was presence of headlice taken from the headreast of the car he was driving and also found on the victim's shirt. (Because he got out to look at the person he hit and they transmit with a glance). Also you should have seen how easily the tv cop was able to comb a huge pile of them off the ends of his hair. I was all Dang!! TV drama at its finest!!
"A little bird done tole me that Jim Bob and Juan were wrasslin' on the playground, and I heered they mighta rolled over a dead squirrel, but howsomewever, it seem like both of 'em came up with lice".
That's how you could 'otherwise become aware' of lice, ha ha.
Specializes in Cardiology, School Nursing, General.
So I told my AP about the Mass Lice Check of '17, and told her I'm not doing that again. But I did tell her I will check if I get a notification from a direct source, mainly the student (My head is itchy.), parent of said student and teacher. If the source is from suzy's friend's grandmother, who heard it from her sister and mother, that Liz has lice, then I'm not going to respond.
NutmeggeRN, BSN
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" Lice???? What lice???, I didn't see no stinkin' lice!!!"