Nurse's Corner

School Nurse
Nicole Miller
School Nurse
[email protected]

October Family Newsletter
Boletín familiar de octubre en español

Welcome to Middlesex Elementary School Health Suite

I am Nicole Miller, the nurse at MES. My goal is to develop relationships between families, students and school staff to provide comprehensive nursing care and provide community resources so our students and families can thrive at their optimum level of health and attend school each day.

MES also has a health assistant, Ms. Erika Sheppard on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

Some daily duties:

     - Review and update immunizations

     - Take care of students and staff members throughout the school day

     - Educate on medical and lifestyle issues

     - Dispense medication

     - Create school health plans

Health Suite Reminders


Parents who would like their child to have over-the-counter medications for minor ailments during the school day must complete the “Consent-for-Admin-of-Approved-Disc-Meds.2020.pdf.”

Students who require prescribed medications for medical diagnoses such as (not limited to) Asthma, Diabetes, Seizures, Migraines must have the “Request to Administer Medication Form.pdf” completed by their physician.

ATTENDANCE

Attendance matters in your child’s educational path! Please send your child to school. If a child is chronically absent:

  • Chronically absent (4 days a quarter) kindergarteners and first graders are less likely to read on grade level by the end of third grade.
  • By 6th grade, chronic absence becomes a leading indicator that a student will drop out of high school.
  • Students who are chronically absent any year between grades 8 and 12 are seven times more likely to drop out.
  • Attendance Gaps = Achievement Gaps

Here is information regarding illness and when your child should stay home and when to send them to school:

WHEN TO STAY HOME

WHEN TO RETURN TO SCHOOL
  1. Fever of 100.0 or higher
  2. Diarrhea within the last 24 hours
  3. Vomiting within the last 24 hours
  4. Constant cough that won’t stop or difficulty breathing
  5. Eye infection
  6. Head lice with live lice
  7. Body rash
  1. Fever free for 24 hours, without using any medication
  2. No diarrhea or loose stool for 24 hours, without using any medication
  3. No vomiting for 24 hours, without the use of any medication
  4. Mild or occasional cough
  5. After the doctor clears the student to return to school. Please send a doctor note with student.
  6. When live lice is gone. Having nits or the eggs in the hair is ok to return to school.
  7. When rash is gone or doctor states it is ok for student to return to school.

 

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