Friendly Clinic Reminders
2023-2024
Clinic Updates
Emergency cases only from 2:15pm-dismissal. If a student is sent down for non-emergent needs during the times of 2:15pm-3:00pm a minor assessment will be conducted, and the student will return to class.
* Please remind students prior to coming to clinic to not come through the front doors of the office due to safety reasons.
* Students only need a buddy if they are new or if the student is displaying emergent symptoms. Sending students down to the clinic unnecessarily exposes the student
NEW UPDATES!!!
Field Trips
Immunizations
Beginning Tuesday, October 17, 2023 the district will exclude students due to being noncompliant or not having a record in their file. Parents MUST provide proof of a doctor's appointment or an updated shot record in order to be here at school. If the parent does not provide documentation the guardian will be contacted for student pick up. The scholar is not able to return to school until documentation has been provided.
Due to HIPPA I cannot provide certain details pertaining student's absence.
Vision Screening
Our annual vision screening was held on October 17, 2023.
Results will be inputted into skyward.
If one of your scholars fail the vision exam, a letter will be sent home notifying of the failure.
*Please understand it takes time to enter and create the letters.
Clinic referral Slips and Accident Reports
Please do not send a student in a non-emergency situation without a clinic referral. If no slip has been provided the student will be returned to the classroom to obtain a slip. I do understand there are very minor things that do not need a clinic slip. ( Ex: needing a band aid)
When completing the referral make sure to include a description of the incident on why the student is coming to the clinic. I need first and last name of the student. If that information is unavailable please notate the teacher’s name. We need all documentation and it is the pass allowing the student to be out of class as well.
Also please be mindful of the choice of words when writing the clinical referral form. The slips go home to the parents.
Accident reports
Accident reports should be completed any time a student is physically injured on school grounds or physically injured by another student. When completing the report please provided a detailed description of the incident, if you did not see the incident please notate that on the report. Please remember to sign after completing
Tips in the classroom
*When You Can Help the Student in Class:
- Minor cuts, scrapes and blisters – Have the child wash with soap and water & give band aid.
- Chapped lips – let nurse know if you need a little Vaseline to have in your room, but not a reason for student to be out of class. Old scrapes or bruises that are healing do not need to be seen.
- Minor bumps – don’t need an ice pack/we are limiting use of ice due to skin damage which can occur- Do not tell student to “go get ice”
- Vague complaints of not feeling well – try drink of water, restroom, wait until after snack or lunchtime.
- BARF / BOWELS- "Verping" (burping up food, swallowing or spitting it out) is not vomiting. Feeling "nauseous or queasy” in the absence of other symptoms such as appearing sick (pale, clammy, tired) can take the "wait and see" route. Only students who actually vomit should be sent in the absence of other symptoms or complaints. Children can often perceive hunger as stomachache. Often stomach issues are due to anxiety around academic or social issues, family issues or the need to move bowels. One loose BM is not diarrhea. Wait for more than one trip to the rest room and additional complaints, symptoms and an ill appearing child.
- Nosebleeds - Students who are bleeding profusely send to the clinic. If a student is digging in their nose, or blows it and there's a drop of blood does not cause for a clinic visit. Now, if other additional symptoms accompanying the minor blood please send.
Allergies
For any special food accommodation the scholar's parent will need to provide documentation from their physician.
Once that documentation has been received. I will start an email communication with our district dietician, the director of dining services, CES kitchen manager, and the scholar's guardian. After they approve the documentation, a menu accommodation will be created. Sometimes this is not a sudden change. The parent will have access to view that month's café menu for that scholar.
If a student has an Allergy Action Plan, a copy will be provided to you to keep in the classroom. After the documentation is completed and signed by a physician an epi pen may be dropped off to the clinic following Pike Township's medication policy.
Please keep in mind when the parent lists the allergy in skyward is not sufficient enough to make any accommodations or administer medications. The notification serves as just a reminder of the allergy.
Parents have access to view this information and documents needed on the parent newsletter from the clinic.
Clara Lopez director of dining services: Clopez@pike.k12.in.us
Cara Confere district nutritionist: CConfer@pike.k12.in.us
Uniforms
If a student is out of uniform:
1) Contact Parent , if the parent advise that they are unable to purchase uniforms, email our school social worker, Sherma Jackson.
2) If a student is out of uniform for the third time due to not following policy, and you have contacted the parent for the third time, the student may then be sent to the clinic. At that time the student will be charged all of their cardinal cash to purchase a uniform from the clinic. The student will be responsible for coming in at the beginning of school to change and returning the uniform at the end of the day to the clinic.
If a student is out of uniform due to not following policy they will not be able to earn any cardinal cash that day.
Again if there is a student with concerns about them not having uniform please contact our school’s social worker, Sherma Jackson, to get additional assistance.
If you happen to have any gently used uniforms or brand new packaged under wear for children I would greatly appreciate any donation that I can get.
Sherma Jackson: SEJackson@pike.k12.in.us
Injuries
I am more than happy helping student’s when needed but please do not send a student to the clinic for a previous injury that happened at home. I cannot treat an injury that did not happen at school without a doctor’s order or if the student is physically bleeding.
Medication
A written permission medical statement is needed for me to administer any medication. I will email you with a scheduled time on when the student needs to come to the clinic. Make sure that you are sending your students down at the proper time to take their medications.
It is helpful to set an alarm. Create helpful reminders. Also, include this information in your sub plans.
If a parent would like to bring in medication for their student please refer them to my smore's parent newsletter. That will have all the information needed for medication here at Central, and it also includes the correct forms needed.
Also, if the student is on daily medication that is administered by the parent and not the clinic, please contact the parent with your concerns.
Attendance
Please never call a parent for a student pick up without sending the student to the clinic, No Exceptions! I need to assess students and document if we are sending them home. I also need to address the policy with our parents for those with symptoms that require them to stay home.
If you need Clinic Referral Forms and Accident Reports, let me know. I can put some in your mailbox.
It is okay to contact parents advising them of symptoms that you notice are reoccurring or you may have concerns regarding a student's health.
If the child has not been to school, and there are concerns please contact the parent. If I have been contacted by a parent or a student is out due to a medical need I will be more than happy to keep you updated on a return date for that student.
While looking at attendance you may see a C. C's represent a student is out sick for that day.
Sick Policy
The following are symptoms for which children must be kept home from school and
taken to a doctor if symptoms warrant such an action:
1. Fever of 100 or higher. Children must not return to school until they are fever free for 24
hours without Tylenol or Motrin.
2. Children on antibiotics for contagious diseases such as tonsillitis, bronchitis or
pneumonia must not return to school until they have taken the medication for 24 hours.
3. Nausea and/or vomiting. Children must stay home for 24 hours post vomiting.
4. Diarrhea. Children must stay home for 24 hours post diarrhea.
5. Sore Throat (pustules and/or blisters in throat). Children must be fever free for 24 hours.
Physician diagnosis will determine if the child is contagious or not. If medication(s) are
prescribed, the child must take it for 24 hours before returning to school. Per the Marion
county Health Department Guidelines (9/2020), Students and staff must be fever-free for
24 hours, without the use of fever-reducing medications, before returning to school or
work. If a child is diagnosed with strep throat or scarlet fever, medication must be taken for 48 hours before returning to school.
6. Rash. Physician diagnosis will determine if the child is contagious or not. If the child is
contagious, they cannot return to school until prescribed treatment has been started.
7. Pink Eye or Discharge from Eyes. Children must stay home until a physician makes a
diagnosis, antibiotics have been taken for 24 hours and drainage from eye(s) has
stopped.
8. Lice/Nits. Students with lice do not need to be sent home early from school. They can
go home at the end of the day, be treated, and return to class after appropriate
treatment has begun.
9. Open or Draining Sores. A physician needs to confirm if it is contagious or not.
Appropriate treatment should be started before the child returns to school. Keep open
wounds covered, at all times, while in school.
10. Ringworm. Diagnosis by a Physician must be made and anti-fungal treatment needs to be started. While in school, the site must be covered.
COVID
Screenings
Dates of Screenings
Hearing is scheduled was held by the Marion County Health Department on September 27, 2023.
- Grades that were screened: 1st and 4th grade
Vision will be done by the Lions Clubs on October 17, 2023.
- Grades being screened are 1st, 3rd, and 5th.
Close to the screening dates you will receive a roster and a schedule showing when your class will need to come down. Location will be disclosed on schedule.