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A school clinic is a service provided for our children by a highly qualified clinic worker. First aid is provided to children who suffer injuries or become ill at school. The clinic keeps no medication, including aspirin, on hand to give to students. We will clean cuts and scrapes and apply bandages as needed. Anything requiring further care will be referred to the parent. This includes removal of splinters and teeth. Parents will be called and students sent home if they are too sick to remain at school. A child having a temperature of 100 degrees or more will need to be picked up from school. Should an emergency situation arise in which your child needs immediate medical attention and we are unable to contact anyone, we will call "911", and your child will be taken to the emergency room. If it is determined at school that a child has head lice, the parent must pick up the child. Treatment with a special shampoo and removal of all nits is required before the child can return to school. Parents are asked to send the box top from the shampoo to the school clinic upon the child's return. Medication can only be given with a completed medication form on file. This includes over-the-counter medication or a doctor's prescription. Medication forms are available in the clinic. Students are not permitted to carry medication of any kind to school on their person or in their backpacks. Parents must transport all medication, prescription or over-the-counter, to school. Medicine is not to be kept in a student's desk. All medicine must be taken to the clinic. Medicine will be administered in the clinic. The teacher will not be held responsible for medication. Each child will be given a Clinic Information Card to be completed by the parent or guardian and then returned to the school. This will be kept on file in the clinic. It is very important that you have at least one name and number of someone who can be contacted in case of any emergency. It is the parents' responsibility to notify the clinic if any of the telephone numbers change during the course of the school year. The school will not be responsible in cases where a parent cannot be reached because of incorrect or invalid telephone numbers provided by parents. |
