Student Medical and Health Issues
Student Medical and Health Issues
Medications
Medications, both prescription and over the counter, may be given at school when it is deemed absolutely necessary by the authorized health care provider or parent, that the medication be given during school hours. The California Education Code, Section 49423, allows school personnel to assist in carrying out the parent’s or an authorized health care provider’s written order. Designated non-medical personnel will be administering your child’s medication. Medication will be safely stored and locked or refrigerated if required.
The office (or teacher) is not authorized to dispense any medication (including Tylenol, cough drops, etc.) to a child without the authorized parent bringing in the required medication and filling out a “Medication Release Form” (available in the office) instructing school personnel on specifics. If the school is asked to administer any medication (any over the counter or prescription drug) on a regular basis, the parent/guardian will need to bring in a doctor’s note stating this need. Please see the office for details or any questions that you may have regarding dispensing medication.
If a student is going to need over-the-counter medications off and on during the school year (i.e. Pepto Bismol, aspirin, Tylenol, etc.) it will be the parent’s responsibility to provide that medication to the office personnel with the student’s name on it and the allowable dosage.
If a student is receiving any medication, it may be given at school only under the following conditions:
- It must be prescribed medication in the original pharmacy container with the doctor’s instructions printed on the container
- An appropriate measuring device must accompany all liquid medications
- Any tablets requiring partial doses (1/2 or 1/4) must be cut at home
- Written permission from the parent/guardian must accompany the medication
No Self-Administered Medication
No medication of any kind (including aspirin or cough syrup or cough drops) can be dispensed by the student. All medications must be turned over to the office.
Communicable Diseases
Students will be screened daily. Students with fevers, coughs, vomiting or severe congestion will be sent home. Please notify your student’s teacher of any allergies.
Fever Policy
Students cannot come to school with a fever and must be fever free for 24 hours without medication, before returning to school.
Students cannot come to school if they have vomited more than twice in the preceding 24 hours.
Parents are required to promptly report any communicable disease to the school office. Some common examples are chicken pox, head lice, impetigo, measles, mumps, pink eye and ringworm. The California State Law requires that “the principal or other person in charge of any public, private or Sunday School to exclude therefrom any child or other person affected with a disease presumably communicable, until the expiration of the prescribed period of isolation for the particular communicable disease.”
We are committed to providing a strong, Christ-centered instructional program. Students admitted here shall be protected from influence negatively affecting their well-being and educational progress. Students with a communicable disease could affect classmates adversely, if such pupils are allowed to attend classes. Therefore, we will exclude student applicants who are currently infected with live (active) viruses or illnesses of a communicable nature.
Food Allergies
Stoneybrooke is not an allergen-free school (this includes, but is not limited to, the presence of peanuts, peppers, etc.).