Guidelines for Keeping Your Child Home

· A temperature of 100 degrees or higher (body temperature tends to be lower in the morning, so a slight elevation may indicate an infection is present).
· Children should be fever-free for one day, without the aid of a fever-reducing product, before they return to school.
· Vomiting or diarrhea
· A suspicious rash
· A headache that continues for a day or two, or re-occurs
· A bad cough, or cold symptoms
· A sore throat, especially if exhibiting other symptoms such as nausea, rash or fever.
· Redness of an eye, especially if accompanied with draining or itching.

When your child is absent or tardy from school, please call the nurse's office at 597-6609 OR call 597-3400 ext 4126 and leave a message. Please remember to send in a written note of explanation when your child returns (New York State Law)

School Nurse

Karen Vanderlyke, R.N.

PHONE:

315-597-6609

Additional New Number

315-597-3400 ext 4126 to leave a message

FAX: 315-597-6903

New - Over the Counter Medications Given at School

In order for the school nurse to give ANY OTC'S, a written order from your child's doctors office must be on file each school year. So, if you child has chapped lips from the cold weather or itchy skin, or a sun burn in the spring a current order needs to be on file. Please ask your child's doctor to complete the OTC form. Please print this form. (PDF)

Prescription Medications

A written order from your child's doctors office must be on file each school year any prescription medication your child needs to take during the school hours. Please print this form(PDF) for your child's doctor and return it to school.

Physicals

Physicals are due for all 2nd and 4th graders. If you haven't had your child's physical done by their own doctor and wish to do so, please let the health office know the date of the appointment. Our next date for physicals is Feb 14, 2008.

Please have the doctor complete this health form(PDF) at your child's annual physical.

What the school nurse does...

Provides emergency first aid, and appropriate medical assistance as needed.
Conducts health screenings for vision, hearing, dental, scoliosis, height and weight and other concerns as needed.
Evaluates and monitors communicable and nuisance diseases
Implements and monitors students' compliance with state immunization laws
Makes referral to appropriate community agencies
Evaluates and assesses student health needs, provides health counseling and conducts health-related classroom presentations
Serves as a liaison between home and school regarding health concerns; makes home visits, takes health histories and assesses long-term illnesses
Works with Committee on Special Education to develop objectives for the students' Individualized Educational Plan
Serves as a resource person for faculty and staff and community agencies.

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