Health Policies

Any illness or injury occurring during school hours will be handled by Fernway's School Nurse. The School Nurse is a registered R.N..

If your child is ill or has an injury that requires professional medical treatment, please do not have them attend school until they are well. If a teacher suspects a child is ill while in class, he/she will send that child to the office.  A body temperature is always taken before we call parents to come to school to receive their child. The student will be sent home if the temperature is 100 degrees or above.  We try not to send children home unless the parent or we feel the case is warranted through mutual agreement over the facts involved.   Students should be fever free for 24 hours before returning to school.  In the event that a student incurs a head injury during school hours, all reasonable effort will be made to notify the child’s parent/guardian.

Also, there are some students who require medication in order to remain in school (i.e. asthma, diabetes, etc.).  In these types of situations, the parent should request and complete a release form on their part, and then have their physician complete another form, which describes the medication and its dosage.  Both forms are available in our school office.  All medication will be kept in a locked cabinet.  If your child takes medication during the school day, please stress the importance of remembering the proper time to come to the Health Office for their medication.  Also, for the safety of our students, the use of cough drops in school is strongly discouraged.  With a doctor's permission inhalers may be kept in the student's possession.

The following safety measures will be followed:

• Warming devices with electrical cords are prohibited in classrooms.
• Heelys not allowed.
• Cell phones/hand held devices are not allowed during school hours.

HEALTH PROBLEMS
Many childhood diseases hit our children during the school year and we have little if anything which we can do to alleviate such situations. If an outbreak of chickenpox or similar diseases seem to strike a certain group, we'll forward an informative note home to parents. Head lice and other eye infections will result in a phone call to parents, as the child cannot stay in school with such conditions. Our School Nurse will be glad to screen a group of children for these conditions if we know of a confirmed case.