School Nurse

Location & Resources

The School Nurse’s Office is located on the first floor of the Lower School building next to the Toddler Program. The nurse is available on school days from 7:30AM-3:30PM. We stock a wide variety of over-the-counter medications such as Tylenol, Advil, Benadryl, and multiple cough and cold preparations. 

The nurse is responsible for dispensing all medication on campus, setting student protocols, and keeping us in compliance with federal and local regulations.

Illness Policy 2024-2025 School Year

If your child is sent home due to illness, he or she may not come back to school nor attend any of the after-school activities/sports the rest of that entire day/evening.

All students who are ill at school and need to go home must be picked up by parent or guardian 
within the hour of the call from the nurse. This is for the safety of all students who are in need 
of care in the nurse's office who will potentially be exposed to your sick child.

Any child with an elevated temperature of 100 degrees Fahrenheit or above must remain home until the temperature has been (below 99.5 degrees) without medication for 24 hours.

If your child vomits or has diarrhea in the morning before school, he or she must stay home. 
Children should stay home at least 24 hours after the last episode of fever, vomiting, or diarrhea 
without the use of medication to control the symptoms.

All communicable diseases, e.g., strep throat, chicken pox, conjunctivitis, COVID-19, scarlet 
fever, scabies, staphylococcus (to include: folliculitis, impetigo, staph, MRSA/methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus) must be reported to the school nurse even if diagnosed on the weekend or over vacation. Any sore/lesion resulting from the same, must be in the healing stage (no oozing pus) before returning to school and be covered at all times. Your child must be on antibiotics a FULL 48 hours prior to returning to school unless cleared by your doctor. 
Please have your child wear long sleeves/long pants to ensure sores/lesions are covered in 
addition to band-aids.
 
Children being treated for most communicable diseases may return within 48 hours of 
starting antibiotic therapy or other viral treatments. (This excludes all staphylococcus diagnosed Flu or Covid-19. Staphylococcus and diagnosed Flu need a doctor's release to return to 
school. COVID requires isolation until symptoms are resolving and students are fever-free for 24 
hours without the use of fever-reducing medication.

Students with staphylococcus or impetigo may return to school after 48 hours of treatment, and must keep lesions covered while in school. Children with chicken pox may return to school after five days if all lesions are dry and scabbed over.

If your child is not vaccinated and is exposed to chicken pox or any other communicable disease they must remain out of school for the entire incubation period of the disease they have been exposed to. Physicians will guide all exposure times.

If your child is diagnosed with a concussion, they may not return to school without written 
permission from their physician with specific restrictions and instructions for care in school.

If your child has an anaphylactic reaction they must have physician clearance to return to 
school.

It is important for parents of other students to be made aware if they have been exposed to communicable diseases. The names of affected children are kept confidential. Without adequate information, however, we cannot prevent unnecessary transmission of communicable diseases in school. 

Revised for School Year 2024-2025 
The presence of any of the symptoms below generally suggests a student, teacher, or staff member has an infectious illness and should not attend school, regardless of whether the illness is COVID-19, the Flu or something else. For students, staff, and teachers with chronic conditions, symptom presence would represent a change from their typical health status to warrant exclusion from school. Occurrence of any of the symptoms below while a student, teacher, or staff member is at school suggests the person may be referred for diagnostic testing. 
1.    Temperature of 100 degrees Fahrenheit or higher
2.    Persistent sore throat that is getting progressively worse
3.    Severe cough (for students or staff with chronic cough due to allergies or asthma, a change in their cough from baseline)
4.    Difficulty breathing (for students or staff with asthma, a change from their baseline breathing)
5.    Diarrhea or vomiting
6.    New loss of taste or smell
7.    New onset of headache, especially with a fever
8.    Colds, runny nose, nasal or chest congestion progressively getting worse

Students should not attend school if they or their caregiver identifies a new development of any of the symptoms above. 
COVID requirements may change as the CDC & the DOH update information as research findings are reported. 
Quarantine, Isolation, and travel requirements are directed by the DOH and the CDC.