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WELCOME TO THE BALDWINSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOLS
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NURSES' OFFICE PAGE
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Flu Symptom Checklist for Families
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__Yes __ No Does your child have a sore throat, bad cough, or runny nose?
__Yes __ No Does your child have body aches or chills?
__Yes __ No Does your child have vomiting or diarrhea?
__Yes __ No Does your child have a fever of 100 degrees or more?
Here’s how to tell using a thermometer:
• Wash the thermometer with soap and warm water before using. Do not let your child drink anything for 15 minutes, then take the temperature.
• Put the thermometer under your child’s tongue. Have your child close his lips around the thermometer and stay with your child while the thermometer is in your child’s mouth. You can hold it in place.
• It takes about one minute to check a temperature by mouth. A digital thermometer beeps when it is ready to read. Your child’s temperature shows on the thermometer like this:
• 100.2 °F One hundred point two
• 102 °F One hundred and two
If you are unable to take your child’s temperature, you can look for these signs of fever:
• Your child’s face may be red. Skin may be hot to touch or moist.
• Your child may be fussy and have a headache.
If your child has a fever AND you answered “yes” to one of the other questions above, your child might have the flu. Your child should stay home from school until you are able to consult with your health care provider.
Children with the flu should stay home for at least 7 days even if they feel better sooner. Children still sick after 7 days should continue to stay home from school until at least 24 hours after their fever and other symptoms are gone. Children may have a lingering cough. If seven days have passed, the student is fever free, and otherwise feels well for at least 24 hours, reentry into school is permitted.
When should my child see a doctor?
Otherwise healthy children with mild illness usually do not usually need to be seen. CALL your health care provider if your child is more ill than usual. Be alert for signs that your child is having trouble breathing or is not drinking enough fluids. Be alert for skin rashes or any signs that your child is more uncomfortable than you would expect with the flu.
*Please DO NOT send your child to school when the child's fever only returns to normal after medicating him/her. The best practice is for children to stay home for a full 24 hours after a fever.
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Parent Options for Children Who Required Medication on Field Trips
1. Chaperone the trip and carry your child’s medication
2. Designate someone who doesn’t work in the school district to attend the field trip – which can carry and administer the medication to your child for you.
3. Discuss with your doctor whether the medication is required for the field trip. If the medication is not required for the field trip, both you and your doctor provide written documentation confirming this. BOTH notes are necessary.
4. Discuss with your doctor whether or not your child can be self directed in administering their own medication. To be self directed your child must be able to: identify the medication, state the purpose of the medication, state the correct dose, state when the medication must be taken and what would happen if the medication is missed. This option requires a note from both you and your doctor indicating that he/she is self directed. Finally your child must be able to demonstrate to the school nurse his/her ability to meet the criteria.
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If your child gets sick, it is often most appropriate to keep him/her home from school. A child who is sick will not be able to perform well in school and is likely to spread the illness to other children and staff. Please make arrangements for childcare ahead of time so you will not be caught without a place for your child to stay if he/she is ill. |
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Our school policy states that you should not send your child to school if he/she has:
1. Fever in the past 24 hours
2. Vomiting in the past 24 hours
3. Diarrhea in the past 24 hours
4. Chills
5. Sore throat
6. Strep Throat (must have been taking an antibiotic for at least 24 hours before returning to school).
7. Bad cold, with a very runny nose or bad cough, especially if it has kept the child awake at night.
If your child becomes ill at school and the teacher or school nurse feel the child is too sick to benefit from school or is contagious to other children, you will be called to come and take him/her home from school. It is essential that your child’s teacher have a phone number where you can be contacted during the day and an emergency number in the event you cannot be reached. Please be sure that arrangements can be made to transport your child home from school and that childcare is available in case of illness. If your daytime or emergency phone number change during the year, please notify your child’s nurse immediately.
These guidelines are meant to serve the best interests of all the children in our program.
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Petussis Facts
This letter is written to increase your awareness of pertussis (whooping cough) and to help identify measures that you can take to prevent the spread of respiratory infections in general. The focus,as with all communicable diseases, is not WHO has the illness but on what you can do to be alert to the signs and symptoms, and to prevent contracting pertussis.
Pertussis is a bacterial infection which is spread by airborne droplet during coughs and sneezes. It generally begins as a mild upper respiratory infection with symptoms including sneezing, low-grade fever and a mild cough. Within generally two weeks the cough becomes more severe and is characterized by fits of coughing followed by a high pitched whoop. Pertussis can occur at any age but is most common in children under five, Treatment with antibiotics can shorten the contagious period.
Measures to prevent the spread of pertussis includes covering your mouth and nose with coughs and sneezes, followed by hand washing. Wash your hand after blowing or wiping your nose. Wash your hand before you touch your own hand or nose. Stay home when you feel ill.
Your physician would be happy to address any concerns that you might have about medical issues with your children. Excellent web references for pertussis can be found at WebMD, www.kidshealth.org or on the American Academy of Pediatrics site.
Click here for more information from the County of Onondaga Health Department.
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Physical Exams are required for: kindergarten, second grade, fourth grade, seventh grade and tenth grade. For the child entering second grade (a required physical year) , a physical performed during the first grade school year would actually satisfy the second grade physical requirement! If you plan to schedule a physical during the second grade school year, this will work also.
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Athletes must have yearly physicals. The physical is valid for 12 months, until the last day of the month in which the physical was performed. For example a sports physical performed 8/1/07 is valid until 8/31/08. If the student’s physical qualifies him/her on the first day of try-outs, he/she is set for that sport season.
It is suggested that the exam be performed by the family physician, who best knows the child. The family physician is better able to judge any change or deviation in the child’s state of health.
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Important Information From the Nurses Office:
• All schools now have a nebulizer in the nurse’s office!!! If your child requires nebulizer treatments, please provide the nurse with: MD order, medication and the tubing with a mouthpiece.
• Kids with asthma may carry their rescue inhaler with them if the nurse has a MD note on file indicating that
This is okay. We strongly recommend that a back up inhaler be housed at the nurse’s office. Please tell your child to notify the nurse early if they are using the rescue inhaler more than once in the day so that she can monitor his/her lungs and avert a crisis.
• Medications administered at school must be carried into the nurse’s office by an adult. The medication must be presented with a MD script indicating school hour’s administration, a written parental request for school administration and be in the original container; same rules apply for over-the-counter medication.
• State laws prohibit us from giving any medication without a MD order. School nurses do not have supplies of Tylenol, Motrin, Midol… in their offices.
• If your child has a medical condition (asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, allergy…), ask the nurse to complete one of our newly developed individual Care Plans with you. These new forms allow you to acknowledge your child’s unique needs. They will be kept in a secure area in the nurse’s office for reference.
• Kindergarteners without proof of starting their immunizations may NOT start school. Telling the nurse the date and place of shots does not help. New York State requires actual proof (signed documents) of beginning the mandatory immunizations.
• The school nurse will contact kids delayed in their immunization schedules. Once again there are clear standards that require evidence of continuing immunizations as mandated.
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| Last updated on 5/20/2013 |
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