Wellness

student wellness

Health Policy for la plata schools

Email Nurse Buck for specific health questions or concerns!

1. Illness

  • Unable to participate in routine activities or needs more care than can be provided by the school staff.
  • Under no circumstances may a parent/guardian send a sick child to school. Sick children can expose other children and school staff.
  • If a child becomes ill and needs to be picked up, the parent/guardian will be called and is expected to pick the child up within one hour (60 minutes).
  • If the parent/guardian cannot be reached, or has not arrived within an hour, the emergency contact will be notified.


2. Fever

  • Children will be excluded from school with a temperature of 100.0 degrees. Child must remain at home until fever free without the use of medications

for at least 24 hours.


3. Diarrhea

  • Increased number of loose stools compared to normal pattern.
  • The stool could be watery, bloody, or contain mucus.
  • Child must be free of diarrhea for at least 24 hours.


4. Vomiting

  • One or more times in the previous 24 hours
  • No child should be sent to school if they vomited throughout the night.
  • Child must be free of vomiting for at least 24 hours.


5. Eye Drainage

  • When an eye is draining and/or fever or eye pain is present, the child will remain out of school until a medical exam releases the child to return to school.


6. Rash

  • Children will be excluded from school until a medical exam indicates these symptoms are not those of a communicable disease that requires exclusion.
  • If the child has a chronic medical condition, please file a doctor’s note in the child’s medical file.


7. COVID-19

  1. If a child has four or more of the following symptoms present and refuses testing, child must self-quarantine for 14 days or longer and may return to school once clinically released through health department consultation.
  2. Symptoms:
  3. Fever of 100.0 or higher (or student states they have felt feverish)
  4. Cough
  5. Congestion
  6. Runny Nose
  7. Shortness of Breath
  8. Sore Throat
  9. Muscle Aches
  10. Chills
  11. Nausea
  12. Vomiting
  13. Diarrhea
  14. New loss of taste or smell
  15. In lieu of 14-day quarantine, child may return to school with a negative COVID-19 test and is symptom free for 48 hours without the use of fever reducing medications.


8. Other Highly Infectious Diseases

a. Please follow the guidelines outlined in either of the following manuals:

Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases https://health.mo.gov/living/families/schoolhealth/pdf/Communicable_Disease.pdf

School Nurse Resource Manual: A Guide to Practice.


A Note from Nurse Carol Buck


LaPlata School Nurse                                                                                      02/16/2024


I would like to take this time to welcome everyone to the exciting new school

year of 2023 / 2024 at LaPlata RII.


I will take this time to introduce myself. I am Carol Buck the LaPlata School

Nurse, This is the beginning of my 13 th year and I am looking forward to

providing your child with any health needs that may need to have met while at

school.


Please help us help your child by filling out the health form that is part of the

registration package. This gives us the doctor, dentist and hospital you prefer.

Any other special needs that your child may need to have met such as food

allergies and drug allergies will also be included on the health form. If at

anytime thru the school year your child will need additional care please call

(660)-332-7003 so we can be prepared to meet the needs of your child.


If at any time through the school year your child is prescribed a medication that

must be administered during school hours we will need you to fill out the

authorization to treat form and bring the medication to the school in the

original pill bottle with the child’s name, prescription, medication, physician,

dose, route and time on the label of the bottle.


While we continue to face the Covid-19 Pandemic we will need to work as a

team to keep our school free from this virus. If you or your student test

positive for Covid–19 Follow the guide lines set by the CDC and if your student

is symptomatic keep your child home.


Children will need to be kept home until fever free, vomit free and diarrhea

free for 24 hours.


In the event that a student is sent home from school for vomiting, diarrhea or

a fever they will be expected to stay home the following school day.


Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns with your

child’s health care while at this facility.

Enjoy a great school year!


Carol A. Buck La Plata School Nurse


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