School Nurse & Health Guidelines

Health Guidelines

Our goal at 皇冠体育官网 is to keep all students healthy and in class school. However, there are times when students may need to stay home and/or see their doctor.

When to stay home from school:

• Vomiting during the night
• Fever of 100.0 or higher
• Head lice to include nits and live lice.
• Tested positive for COVID, FLU, or STREP
• Suspicion of pink eye due to redness, itching, or drainage of the eye.

When can a student return to school after being sick?

• Strep throat diagnosis- After antibiotics have started AND fever-free for 24 hours without needing medications.
• Flu diagnosis- Fever-free for 24 hours without needing medication and symptoms have improved.
• Positive COVID test- Fever-free for 24 hours without needing medication and symptoms have improved.
  • COVID exposures- use normal illness precautions for monitoring symptoms. No exclusion from school is required.
• Pink eye- after evaluation and treatment started by a physician or nurse practitioner.

When might a student get sent home from school?

• Vomiting- any episode of vomiting while at school will require a parent/guardian to pick up the student.
• Uncontrolled coughing- we do not administer cough medications during school hours therefore if a student’s cough cannot be managed with cough drops and water, a parent/guardian will be called for pickup.
• Continued complaints of pain or not feeling well- after several visits to the nurse’s clinic, a parent will be called.
• Suspicion of conjunctivitis (pink eye)- any concern of possible pink eye will be sent home until evaluated and cleared by a physician or nurse practitioner.

*A doctor’s note of clearance for school may be appropriate for certain situations.

*Please notify School Nurse at katie.collier@vaftizo.com if your student misses more than 1 day of school for an illness.