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Nurse Deb: Phone 381-1712

 

Dear Parents/ Guardians,

The focus of the Davenport Community School District Health Services is based on the knowledge that a healthy body, mind, and living habits are essential in achieving maximum educational potential.  I am here to provide services that enhance these beliefs, goals, and ideals.  Below you will find information on what takes place when your child visits the Health Office.  Please feel free to stop in and see me or call me anytime, Nurse Debi

Headache or Stomach Ache - if your child’s temperature is normal the child is sent back to class (no call home) –if 100 or higher your child must go home, you will be called.

Sore throat – if your child’s temperature is normal and throat/tonsils are not red/swollen the child is sent back to class (no call home) – if temperature is 100 or higher and/or throat/tonsils are red swollen your child must go home, you will be called.

Vomiting/Diarrhea – your child must go home, you will be called.

Head Injury – you will be called and a head injury instruction sheet sent home with your child if symptoms are deemed severe enough, you maybe asked to come get your child.

First Aid –will be given for minor scrapes and bruises (no call home).

Injuries requiring more than first aid treatment, your child must go home, you will be called.

Rashes-if your child has a rash of undetermined nature, your child must go home, you will be called.

Eyes- if your child presents with one or both eyes red, swollen, with or without itching and/or pain, with reported or seen discharge, your child must go home, you will be called

Medications – All medications (including over the counter, even cough drops) must have “District Permission Slips” completed.  For all medications prescribed by a physician (and all over the counter medication that are needed for more than one episode of illness, up to 5 doses), a signed physician’s order, with written parent permission on a “District Permission Slip” must accompany the medication.  ALL medications must be in their original, labeled container.

Students should stay home = if they have had fever, vomiting, diarrhea or other illness the evening before, during the night or during the morning before the school day, please keep them home.  They should be symptom free for 24 hours.

PLEASE notify the Nurse or Office – with any changes in addresses, phone or emergency contacts, if a physician diagnoses a communicable disease or your child has a change in health status or a chronic illness is diagnosed or if your child will be absent (please be specific and give the physician diagnosis or 2 symptoms keeping them home if absence is due to illness).

Screenings –

 

Lice screening will be done as needed or reported for the remainder of the school year.

 

Hearing Screenings are done for grades; Preschool, K, 1^st, 2^nd, and students new to The Davenport Community School District.   You will be notified only if results are abnormal. They are done in the fall of each school year.

Vision Screens are done for grades K, 3^rd, 5^th and students new to The Davenport Community School District.  You will be notified only if results are abnormal.  They are done in the fall of each school year or upon request.

 

Kindergarten Roundup

Kindergarten Round Up will be scheduled in April (this year it was held 4/17/08 for the 2008/2009 school year).  If your child will be attending Kindergarten the 2008/2009 school year and you could not make the Round up on 4/17 and you have not yet contacted the school office, please do so to receive important information.

You will need:

Birth Certificate

Social Security Card

            Immunization Records

 

All students will need boosters after age 4 regardless of how many immunizations they have.  They will need: DTAP, POLIO, MMR

Note: Re: Preschool students; there is currently a shortage of HIB vaccines which may last one year.

 

Note: 

A new “Lead Law” and “Dental Screening Requirement” for Kindergartners signed by Governor Culver requirements are coming for school year 2008/2009.  Please watch the media for clarification on how these requirements are going to be met over the next few months.

Diarrhea and Norovirus Health Department Alert 4/14/08

Scott County is seeing an increase in diarrheal illness especially in nursing homes and long-term care facilities, although two suspected cases have been reported in school age children. 

Good hand washing with soap and running water for 15 seconds is essential to prevent spread.  Alcohol based hand sanitizers should only be used when soap and water is not available (they are not as effective as soap and water).

Students and staff must stay home until they are diarrhea free for 24 hours per the Scott County Health Department.

Noroviruss highly contagious.  As few as 10 particles can cause infection.  Mostly passe in the stool but droplets can become airborne with vomiting in small enclosed places. 

Hands can become infected when a person wipes after a bowel movement and does not use good hand washing techniques.  Then inanimate objects or food are touched and carry the virus causing contamination and spread of the illness.

Please e-mail me if you have any questions.

 

Iowa Department of Public Health Update March 14, 2008

 

Healthy Iowans 2010 resources available online

 

What is the top priority health issue for sixty counties in Iowa? How many more Iowans are now engaged in physical activity outside of their regular job? What chronic disease is now being managed so effectively that Iowa has seen a dramatic reduction in hospitalizations for all age groups? The answers to these questions and more are included in a recently released two-page Healthy Iowans (HI) 2010 summary, “Significant Achievements Made in 2007-2008.” To view the report, visit www.idph.state.ia.us/adper/healthy_iowans_2010.asp.

 

Free emergency coordination workshops to be held in June

 

IDPH is proud to partner with the Safeguard Iowa Partnership to offer three public-private emergency coordination workshops this summer. The workshops are free and will demonstrate successful public-private initiatives and provide an emergency coordination model for communities. Presentations will include lessons learned from recent incidents, public-sector assessment tools for business preparedness and other varied topics.

 

The free workshops will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in Denison (June 2), Cedar Rapids (June 4), and Altoona (June 5). I encourage everyone invested in emergency preparedness and response to attend. This includes: professionals in business continuity, emergency management, emergency medical, fire fighting, hospitals, intelligence, law enforcement, public health, public works, utilities, volunteer organizations and private businesses. To register, visit www.PrepareIowa.com. Lunch will be provided and attendees will receive educational materials to share with their organization.

 

 

Deb Graham-Schroeder RN, BA

Blue Grass Elementary School Nurse

 

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