Nurse's Corner
Highland Park Elementary
IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION
"The Texas Department of State Health Services' Immunization Unit encourages healthcare providers to continue vaccinating patients, especially infants and older adults, who are at highest risk of getting diseases that vaccines can prevent. Slowing or stopping access to immunizations increases our risk to outbreaks of other diseases.
Clinics working with children:
Healthcare providers in communities affected by COVID-19 are using strategies to separate well visits from sick. Examples include:
-Scheduling well visits in the morning and sick visits in the afternoon.
-Separating patients spatially, such as by placing patients with sick visits in different areas of the clinic or another location from patients with well visits.
-Collaborating with providers in the community to identify separate locations for holding well visits for children."
I am also attaching immunization requirements for students entering KINDERGARTEN for the 2020-2021 school year, along with a chart for immunization requirements for grades K-12 and PreK.
Please contact me with any questions or concerns you may have concerning immunizations for next school year.
Pre-K requirements:
https://www.dshs.texas.gov/immunize/school/child-care-requirements.aspx
K-12 requirements:
https://www.dshs.texas.gov/immunize/school/school-requirements.aspx
For Students Entering Kindergarten/ Para estudiantes que ingresan a kindergarten
The following are required for entry into Kindergarten/Se require las siguientes vacunas para la entrada al Kindergarten:
MMR (measles, mumps, rubella/sarampion, paperas, rubeola) - 2 doses/dosis
Varicella/Varicela (chicken pox) - 2 doses/dosis, or proof of chicken pox illness/o la prueba de la enfermedad de la varicela.
Hepatitis A - 2 doses/dosis
DTaP – 5 doses, one of which must have been received on or after the 4th birthday. However, 4 doses meet the requirement if the 4th dose was received on or after the 4th birthday/5 dosis, una de las cuales debe haber sido recibida en o despues del cuarto cumpleanos. Sin embargo, 4 dosis cumplen el requisito si la cuarta dosis fue recibida en o despues del cuarto cumpleanos.
Polio – 4 doses, one of which must have been received on or after the 4th birthday. However, 3 doses meet the requirement if the 3rd dose was received on or after the 4th birthday/4 dosis, una de las cuales debe haber sido recibida en o despues del cuarto cumpleanos. Sin embargo, 3 dosis cumplen el requisito si la tercera dosis fue recibida en o despues del cuarto cumpleanos.
Allison Schultze, RN BSN
Email: aschultze1@saisd.net
Location: 635 Rigsby Avenue, San Antonio, TX, USA
Phone: (210) 228-3335