Student Health Services

Online Handbook

The primary goal of the Richmond Community Schools Health Services is protecting the health and well-being of all children. This handbook has been prepared as a guide for Richmond Community Schools personnel and a unification of procedures throughout the corporation. Fortunately, most injuries and illnesses that occur at school are minor.

However, more serious types of injuries and illnesses do occur, and trained personnel are prepared to take timely and appropriate action. Parents are basically responsible for selecting and providing medical care. However, when parents cannot be contacted, the school acts "en loco parentis" to the best of its ability and for the best interest of the student.

Resource Links

The Family Village

Medscape

Head Lice Hotline Now Available

TO: All School Nurses, Teachers, School Administrators and Parents

A new service has been established to help parents deal with the problem of Head Lice.  The volunteers have already been through the head lice problem and have successfully eradicated head lice and nits from their lives. They are caring individuals who have kindly volunteered a few hours per week to talk to people on the phone about head lice. They are trained on how to help people with head lice over the phone.

The service is provided by volunteers at the non-profit website:  http://www.HeadLiceHotline.org.

School Nurse Responsibilities

The school nurse has the following responsibilities:

• Your school nurse maintains contact with each assigned school for the daily care of ill students and travels to the school when needed for assistance or an emergency.
• Your school nurse maintains complete immunization records on all students.
• Parents of those children with missing or incomplete shot records will be notified.
• Your school nurse will contact parents of kindergarten children who fail their vision exam. The exams are performed by an optometrist at the beginning of the school year. When financial concerns are a problem the nurse has resources to offer parents.
• Your school nurse monitors student medications carefully for the safety of administration.
• Your school nurse instructs employees in CPR and First Aid courses. Designated staff members are trained by the nurse to give medication and specialized physician ordered medical treatments.
• Your school nurse is responsible for the planning, implementation, evaluation, and follow-up of the care plans for children with written physician-diagnosed illnesses that require school intervention.
• Your school nurse serves to assist parents and teachers to better understand the illnesses that children may have.