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| Mrs. Trish Jones, RN |
| (636) 443-4803 |
pjones@mail.stcharles.k12.mo.us |
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Welcome to the Monroe Elementary Clinic!
Special Health Concerns
Students with special health concerns (asthma, seizure disorder, diabetes, severe food allergies, etc.) must have an emergency action plan on file every school year. This information is crucial to keep your child safe during the school day. Please print the appropriate form and take it to your doctor. Return the form to school promptly with the required emergency medication and medication forms.
Food Allergy Action Plan
Illness at School
Students running a fever of 100 degrees or above should not be sent to school in the morning. If your child begins to run a fever during the school day, arrangements will be made for the child to be picked up from school by a parent or emergency contact. Students need to be fever-free for 24 hours before returning to school.
Administering Medications
If your child requires medication taken at school, it will be administered according to district policy. A completed medication form is required for each medication brought to school.
District Policy:
"The giving of medicine by the nurse, principal or designee shall be restricted to that which is necessary and cannot be given on an alternative schedule.
Prescription medicines will be in the original pharmacy/prescriber labeled container showing:
a) student’s name
b) name of medicine
c) dosage and administration schedule
d) prescriber’s name
e) date purchased
The student’s authorized prescriber must be a medical professional with prescriptive authority such as a physician, dentist, orthodontist, etc. The District will not administer the first dose of an initial prescription."
Immunizations
All students must present documentation of up-to-date immunizations status, including month, day, and year of each immunization before they can attend school. Immunizations can be scheduled through your pediatrician's office or the St. Charles County Department of Community Health Clinic.
2011-2012 Immunization Requirements
Community Health Clinic Information
Religious and medical exceptions are allowed. The appopriate excemption card must be on file. Unimmunized children are subject to exclusion from school when outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases occur.
Eye Examinations
If is estimated that 80% of all learning is done through seeing for children ages 12 and younger, so early detection and treatment of vision problems can increase a child's ability to learn.
Recently, a law passed in Missouri which requires an eye exam by an eye doctor for all children starting kindergarten or entering school for the first time as a first grader. A copy of the results needs to be provided to the school nurse by January 1, 2012. If you choose not to have your child examined by an eye doctor, you must sign the Waiver of Comprehensive Eye Examination Form. A child will not be kept out of school for not having an eye exam.
For more information about the Children's Vision law, visit www.dhss.mo.gov