Student Health Guidelines

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Specializes in Telemetry, Gastroenterology, School Nrs.

Do any of you prepare a handout of guidelines to be distributed at the beginning of the school year? We are beginning to prepare for next year and this was brought up as possibility. I have an example of one another school district uses, which includes info on things like, when kids should stay home, no return until fever-free for 24 hour stuff, medication administration policies, head lice fun, etc... I'm just wondering if any of you have something like this that you use? I'm sure it will be tossed to the side without much attention; however, parents have to sign a form that states they have received and read our district guidelines and policies handbook, so I can always point out that they indeed have the info, when they arguing that nobody every told them lol

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.

Other than notices that we don't keep extra clothes at school, I don't deviate from the standard acknowledgements that are sent home.

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Our parents are also required to sign that they have read the district Handbook - but I know they don't read it - heck I never read it when I had kids in K-12 - LOL. I will write up a condensed version of the policies regarding fever, diarrhea, vomiting etc to be put in our weekly newsletter to parents at the beginning of the year and then around December and March I will send it out a reminder version to the teachers to post in their classroom/grade level newsletters, blogs etc.

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Specializes in education, school nursing, med-surg, urgent care.

Can you make a clinic webpage on the school website for that information? That's what I'm doing for next year. We waste a lot of paper by sending home a packet of health info that gets tossed in the trash... I'm going to post the necessary information/forms and parents can print off what they need.

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Specializes in NCSN.
Can you make a clinic webpage on the school website for that information? That's what I'm doing for next year. We waste a lot of paper by sending home a packet of health info that gets tossed in the trash... I'm going to post the necessary information/forms and parents can print off what they need.

This^^

All of the district nurses have pages now with links to the district's protocols and different health information and it's helped a TON. For the kindergartner's I still have a small packet of health info that goes into their welcome folders, but I know they probably don't read it.

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Specializes in School Nurse, past Med Surge.

I have something I put in each folder for KG roundup & registration.

Should You Keep Your Child Home From School.docx

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Specializes in School Nurse, past Med Surge.

And I just realized I'm not sure where that sixth day thing came from on the chicken pox note. I'm going to change that.

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Specializes in Telemetry, Gastroenterology, School Nrs.

plainfieldguy, That is a great idea. I have a webpage where most of this information is contained, but I always wonder how many people actually look at it lol

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