Medical

Nurse
The school nurse provides students with these health services:

• Calls parents/guardians when a child becomes ill, or, in fairly severe cases, when first aid must be administered
• Maintains students' medical records
• Checks the hearing and vision of all students once a year, and gives additional hearing and vision checks to students referred for these by a teacher
• Maintains students' attendance records
• Calls parents/guardians to verify absence when the school has not been contacted

Students who are absent due to a communicable disease (including measles, chicken pox, whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, mumps, etc.,) must present a written doctor's approval upon their return to school.

Medication
Students shall not be permitted to take medication while at school unless such medicine is given them by the school nurse or authorized school personnel under specific written request of the parent or guardian and under the written directive of the student's personal physician. All prescription and nonprescription drugs are covered by this policy. The following procedures must be followed when a student requires medication during school hours:

• A supply of the required medication must be given to the nurse in its original package or appropriately labeled container.
• If a medicine is a prescription drug, the bottle must be labeled by the druggist with the name of the student, the name of the drug, directions for taking the medication, and the name of the doctor. The medicine shall be taken to the nurse immediately upon the student's arrival at school.
• Authorization forms must be completed by a parent or guardian and the student's physician and given to the nurse. Forms are available in the nurse's office.