Parent Meetings

[BlondieRN0531]

This branches off my of Beginning of the Year Checklist post, but I wanted to now ask more specifically about meeting with parents of students with health issues before school starts. Of course in a perfect world, you'd line everyone up a week before school and know of absolutely every health issue and med BEFORE kids even came! I've been around long enough to know this ISN'T the case but just wondering how everyone sets up their parent meetings prior to the start of school. I'm thinking any returning student with a known LTA, asthmatic with inhaler, ADHD with medication or other health issue managed daily in the health office would definitely be on the list to meet with their parents. I don't have any diabetics or epileptic kids this year. And also new students with a health issue flagged on the new student information forms. What exactly do I discuss with parents when I meet with them? We have policies in place about needing parental consent for meds, provider orders, and a med administration plan that the nurse fills out with the parent and an emergency action plan for anaphylaxis and asthma. Should I ask parents to bring in the meds with them to the meeting? EpiPen that will be kept in school for example. Thanks!!

[OldDude]

I meet with parents in cases where routine intervention has to occur at school, like diabetes management, tube feeding, for example. Otherwise I have a brief chat with them when they bring in any medicine that might need to be administered at school. If a parent wants to meet with me I agree to that but I seldom have a bona fide "meeting" with parents about health issues at school.

[NanaPoo]

I have one specific meeting with parents of lower grade kids with severe food allergies.

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Two years ago when I came here I began a fall meeting each year consisting of those parents along with the involved teachers & myself. It has grown to involve our lunch provider & principal as well. The parents bring their ideas and experiences (& they have a TON). They are great educators for our faculty. They bring snack lists and great ideas on how to involve our non-allergy parents on snack days, holidays, and birthdays. It has been a wonderful experience. Everyone has been incredibly positive about it. We have learned how to be prepared for anaphylactic reactions, what kind of reactions each child has (or hasn't had) in the past, what their exact allergies/sensitivies are, what our faculty anxieties and worries are and how I can better prepare them. It's really, really a great session.

[mom to many]

I meet with parents in cases where routine intervention has to occur at school, like diabetes management, tube feeding, for example. Otherwise I have a brief chat with them when they bring in any medicine that might need to be administered at school. If a parent wants to meet with me I agree to that but I seldom have a bona fide "meeting" with parents about health issues at school.

This is pretty much what I do also.