Nurse Office

Medication Policy:

All medications (including over-the-counter medicine) must be brought to the nurse’s office by a parent or guardian, along with the proper medication authorization form signed by a healthcare provider. Students are not allowed to carry medications in their backpack.

When to Stay Home:

Please keep your child home if they have:

• A temperature of 100.0 degrees or more in the previous 24 hours (please keep your child home until they have been fever-free for 24 hours to avoid spread of infection).
• Diarrhea or vomiting in the previous 24 hours (please keep your child home until symptom-free for 24 hours).
• If your child wakes up with one or both eyes that are red or pink, oozing green or yellow fluid or has matter stuck to the eyelids, please keep your child home and call your Doctor. Your child may have pink eye (conjunctivitis) which is EXTREMELY contagious until they have had 24 hours of prescription eye drops.
• ​​​​​​​If your child has a moist cough that is difficult to control with over-the counter medications, or your child is coughing up green or yellow sputum, please keep your child home and check with your Doctor.