Sargent Elementary School Health Services
| HEALTH SERVICES MESSAGE
ILLNESS: Students are often coming to school not feeling well and complaining of symptoms of illness after they arrive at school. Once these students board a school bus and/or arrive in their classrooms, they may have already contributed to the spread of contagious infections or disease.
Students should not be sent to school with instructions to “go to the school nurse to see what is wrong”. The function of school health services is not to diagnose or treat the sick child. We may on administer First Aide/Emergency Care.
We ask that the parents not send students to school with any of the following symptoms:
ELEVATED TEMPERATURE: A student should not be sent to school until his/her temperature has been normal for 24 hours.
NAUSEA OR VOMITING: If a student has vomited during the evening, night or prior to coming to school, he/she should not be sent to school.
OTHER SYMPTOMS: Excessive cough, complaint of sore throat accompanied by headache, muscular aches or pain are also symptoms of illness.
The student who is not feeling well can not benefit from instruction and in addition he/she may cause a spread of infections. Also, once a child returns to school from an illness he/she should be ready to participate in all school activities, such as physical education, outside recess, etc. Generally, a note from a parent requesting that a child not participate in regular activities is not acceptable.
CAST AND /OR CRUTCHES: Before a student returns to school wearing a cast or using crutches, the parent should obtain a note from the physician stating the diagnosis and also, a statement that they may attend school. Parents should contact the Health Office prior to the day the student will return to discuss any adjustment necessary to the student’s program. |
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