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Physician Statement of Need Request for Medication Administration Permission to Dispense Tylenol
Health Guidelines from the School Nurse I would like to go over some guidelines to help keep all of us healthier. I believe that all of us have chosen to send our children to Praise, Power, and Prayer Christian School because we want the best spiritually and academically for them. To do this, we all need to start with the very basics.
* Please be sure your child/ren eat a nutritious breakfast. I have found over the past few years, that many of the children do not eat breakfast. This is vitally important! Unless they are being led by the Lord to fast, they should be eating breakfast every day. Please don’t load them up with sugary sweet cereals or pastries. Avoid chocolate also. As the school nurse, I frequently have 2 or 3 children come in feeling poorly with a headache or stomachache, usually due to not eating breakfast. Or if they eat a sugar laden cereal or pastry, they work at top speed until about 10:30 or 11:00, then crash, and are unable to perform until lunchtime. The children in the lower grader do not eat until 12:00 noon. They need breakfast.
* If your child is sick, please keep them home. Sending a sick child to school is not fair to the child, to his/her classmates, or to the teacher.
* If we call you to come get your child because of illness, please have arrangements in place to come as quickly as possible. You can be sure, that if we call you to pick up a sick child they really are sick. Occasionally a child will “pull one over” on us, but as the school nurse, I feel I am qualified to make a judgment call as to whether or not a child is too sick to remain in school. We don’t have anywhere in the school to send a sick child to rest or sleep, nor do we have anyone to watch them. If your child has a fever, they need to be fever free for 24 hours before returning to school.
* Please be sure we have a way to reach you or someone else. If you have changed jobs or office phone numbers, send in your new numbers. If you are going to be unavailable for a day, please give us a number for someone we can reach in an emergency. I feel awful when I have a sick child sitting in front of me and I can’t reach a parent for several hours (and it happens more often than you know). Unless I have written/verbal permission from a parent to give Tylenol or Advil, they have to wait until I hear from you.
* If you send in medication for your child, please clearly put the child’s name on the container, send in a letter or the medication form with the child’s name, the name of the medication, the exact amount they should receive, the time of the last dose and the time I should dispense it, and if the medication should be sent home at the end of the day. ALL medications need to be brought to the nurse to be kept for the day. Please do not send in medication that will make your child drowsy. PLEASE REMIND YOUR CHILD/REN to use Kleenex and not their hands/sweaters/sleeves/shirts, to cover their noses/mouths, to turn away from others, when they sneeze or cough. Remind them to WASH their hands frequently during the day, and always after using the restroom.
If we all follow these guideline, I am hopeful that we can have a healthy school year.
Thank you, Mrs. Barbara Anderson School Nurse |