Responsibilities of Health Room Personnel

RESPONSIBILITIES OF HEALTH ROOM PERSONNEL

SECRETARY OFFICE ASSISTANT HEALTH ASSISTANT SCHOOL NURSE OTHER CHILD ABUSE AND/OR Assess student for Assess student for Assess student for Assess student for Assess student for NEGLECT possible/suspected possible/suspected possible/suspected possible/suspected possible/suspected abuse or neglect. abuse or neglect. abuse or neglect. abuse or neglect. abuse or neglect. Consult with Consult with Consult with Consult with Consult with administrator or other administrator or other administrator or other administrator or other administrator or other appropriate personnel. appropriate personnel. appropriate personnel. appropriate personnel. appropriate personnel. Consult with Notify CPS or Law Notify CPS or Law Notify CPS or Law Notify CPS or Law administrator or other Enforcement by phone Enforcement by phone Enforcement by phone Enforcement by phone appropriate personnel. and follow-up with a and follow-up with a and follow-up with a and follow-up with a Notify CPS or Law written report. Send written report. Send written report. Send written report. Send copy Enforcement by phone copy of report to Health copy of report to Health copy of report to Health of report to Health and follow-up with a Services Office marked Services Office marked Services Office marked Services Office marked written report. Send confidential. Do not keep confidential. Do not keep confidential. Do not keep confidential. Do not keep copy of report to Health copy at school. copy at school. copy at school. copy at school. Services Office marked confidential. Do not keep copy at school. CHRONIC STUDENT Inform School Nurse of Inform School Nurse of Inform School Nurse of Contact parents Inform School Nurse of ILLNESS students with excessive students with excessive students with excessive regarding illnesses students with excessive absenteeism or absenteeism or absenteeism or effecting school absenteeism or excessive Health Room excessive Health Room excessive Health Room attendance and excessive Health Room usage. usage. usage. performance. Arrange usage. for referral as necessary. COMMUNICABLE Screen students for Refer suspected cases Screen students for Assess students with DISEASE CONTROL certain communicable to Secretary, Health certain communicable possible symptoms of diseases Assistant, or School diseases (head lice, communicable (conjunctivitis, Nurse. conjunctivitis, chicken diseases. Arrange for chicken pox, etc.) and pox, etc.) and take mass screenings when take appropriate appropriate actions. appropriate. actions. Notify School Notify School Nurse Investigate any Nurse and the Health and Health Services suspected reportable Services Office Office immediately of communicable immediately of any any suspected diseases. Contact suspected reportable communicable Health Department communicable diseases. Follow when appropriate. diseases. Follow guidelines in Exclude students with guidelines in Infectious Disease communicable Infectious Disease Control Guide. diseases. Educate Control Guide. staff, students, and parents regarding communicable disease control. COUNSELING None. Refer to School None. Refer to School None. Refer to School Evaluate student's Work cooperatively Nurse, Counselor, Nurse, Counselor, Nurse, Counselor, counseling needs. with School Nurse, Psychologist or Psychologist or Psychologist or Arrange for Psychologist and Administrator Administrator Administrator counseling services as Administrator for appropriate. Work student's counseling with Counselor, needs. Psychologist, and Administrator. FIRST AID Provides First Aid in Provides back up First Provide First Aid in Provide First Aid. absence of school Aid in absence of the absence of school Consult regarding nurse. Contact parents Secretary. Contact nurse. Contact parents appropriate treatment regarding ill or injured parents regarding ill or regarding injures or ill of severe illness and students. Enter each injured students. students. Fill out injuries. Call for Aid student's name on Consult with School appropriate accident Car when needed. Health Room Log. Nurse or administrator reports. Contact parents Call Aid Car when regarding calling Aid regarding injures or ill needed. Fill out Car. Fill out students. Fill out appropriate accident appropriate accident appropriate accident reports. reports. reports. HEALTH ROOM Order yearly supplies. ORGANIZATION Monitor usage of supplies. Develop overall organization of Health Room. IMMUNIZATION Obtain information Refer information to Assist school nurses as Process immunization Refer problems to RECORDS and assess School Secretary. directed. information. Update school nurse. completeness records as needed. (Elementary). Refer Notify parent of problems to School deficiencies. Maintain Nurse or Health list of students Assistant. Send CIS inadequately form per District immunized for procedure when potential exclusion. transferring student. Handle problems. Contact parents regarding exclusions. MEDICATIONS Instruct parent to If trained to give Instruct parent to Review parent and Teacher: Administer complete and return medications, complete and return physician request medication in parent and physician's administer in parent and physician forms. Obtain accordance with medication request accordance with request for medication telephone orders from district policy. Refer forms. Refer questions district policy. Refer forms. Administer physician as needed. questions and/or and/or problems questions and/or medication in Consult with problems regarding regarding medication problems regarding accordance with administrator medication to school to school nurse. medication to school district policy. Refer regarding designated nurse. Administer medication nurse. questions and/or personnel to give in accordance with problems regarding medication. Teach district policy. medication to school designated personnel Medications must be nurse. medication time, dose, kept in locked cabinet. side effects and other needed information. Monitor effectiveness and/or problems with medication, and communicate with physician and parents. REFERRALS For acute illness or For acute illness or For acute illness or Evaluate student Inform School Nurse injury, refer to Health injury, refer to Health injury, refer to Health needs. Refer to other of possible need for Room Manual. Inform Room Manual. Inform Room Manual. Inform agencies as referral. School Nurse of School Nurse of School Nurse of appropriate. possible need for possible need for possible need for referral to other referral to other referral to other agencies. agencies. agencies. STUDENT HEALTH Send home health Consult school health Consult school health Review health CONCERNS registration forms. concerns notebook for concerns notebook for registration forms and Notify School Nurse management of care. management of care. develop health of student health Can input health concerns list. Assess concerns from concerns into student health needs. enrollment forms. computer. Inform Develop nursing care Consult health School Nurse and plans as needed. concerns notebook for update student health Contact parents and management of care. concerns list. physicians for additional information. Notify teachers and other appropriate staff. Conduct inservices for school personnel.

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