aprilmoss

First off, the law is HIPAA and in most cases schools are not covered entities under HIPAA. We usually do fall under FERPA. I'm not aware of either HIPAA or FERPA mandating any specific records retention. These laws govern how you DO maintain these when you do and how they get disclosed to the student, parents, and other people. In any event, you're going to have to use electronic storage that meets the requirement. HIPAA has definite certification requirements, while I believe FERPA would need your school to decide what is required. I'd be very careful about transferring anything off site. Using Powerschool or one of the student records systems might be doable, but a plain Google drive seems like it would be fraught with peril.

I have an ancient Welch Allyn dual (oral/rectal) unit that's not been out of the cabinet in years. The one that gets used chiefly is the Welch/Braun ear thermoscan. We did pick up a few IR ones to do "mass" forehead checks of people on the way into the building during the height of COVID. Those are stuck in a drawer somewhere in the front office these days. Of course, there's been times I've thought about threatening my frequent flyers with the red probes on the old WA.

I worked in my kid's school starting with elementary and was able to move up as he did (mostly due to sheer luck on openings and other nurses willing to swap positions). When I got to the high school, I just stayed there after he graduated.

You can always ask your primary school nurse what she goes through. High school and middle school aren't that different. The only thing I would lay in different is perhaps some additional hygiene supplies for the girls for the sudden first periods.

They haven't officially called ours yet. We're slated to go back in April, but I tend to doubt it. The district is already working on "Continuity of Learning" plans with the assumption that we won't be back in the buildings.

Depends on the state. High speeding amounts or reckless driving in many states *IS* criminal and will result in arrest. If you're facing criminal charges even if they've not hauled you "downtown" you were arrested if they gave you a ticket or other charging document." Still, in my experience boards don't get too wrapped up over traffic offenses. Submit the documents they ask for.

I used to keep an old mercury rectal in the cabinet just for jollies. Never used it. I switched from the W-A oral (though it did also have the red probe, again never used) to a tympanic a few years ago and never went back. I always was tempted to threaten the rectal reading on some of the frequent flyers.

In our state, a doctor can't issue a "prescription" for medical marijuana legally. The medical marijuana card approvals are just "recommendations." As a result, our policy is we can not accept a request for administering medical marijuana and possession of that is as much a controlled substance violation as any other drug here. Legal CBD (i.e., no THC to speak of) is covered by the non-prescription drug policy. If the student's doctor wants to sign off on it, we will accept it. We try to discourage drug administration at school when it can be done at home just as well.

504 comes from Section 504 of the rehabilitation act that says schools can't deny services to students because they are disabled. If a student has an impairment (mental or physical) that substantially reduces their ability to learn in the educational setting. An IEP Is a requirement of students who are qualified for special education settings. You can have a student covered by both, but usually if a student is receiving special ed services, they just integrate all the stuff that would have been done in the IEP.

If it's not rowed, use the comb-out method.

The usual argument is vaccines that use the WI-38 or MRC-5 cell lines which came from aborted fetal tissue. The Catholic church has official guidance on the six vaccines that were prepared using this line and indicates adherents have a duty to use vaccines from other sources. In the case that an alternate vaccine is not available, the church recommends fighting for the development of an alternative but draws the line short of demanding not getting vaccinated, suggesting that given two evils, the affected vaccine is the lesser. The problematic vaccines are specifically the varicella (chicken pox) and rubella, for which there are no alternatives currently available. You have to work harder on the others because the affected rubella (and even varicella) components appear in many of the popular combination shots. Still, certainly far from an outright prohibition.

Wasn't a school nurse but some workers they brought in for the screening, but someone failed to read the vials and injected insulin rather than TB derivative https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/30/health/16-students-accident-indiana/index.html Fortunately, the kids are OK, but this is basic stuff people!

I think that's a Freudian slip. Did you mean hearsay?

Why? Read this: https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/lice/head/schools.html

NARCAN (at least the ones I've seen) come in preload syringes like our diabetic glucagon or like epi used to before the epipens came along.