Lice Training 101

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Lice Training101
Suzan Tibbitts RN, MSN Granite School District
Nurse
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MYCHILD HAS LICE!
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Just The Facts

• What are lice?
• Who gets lice?
• How to detect head lice?
• How do you get rid of lice?
• Granite School District Policy

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What Are Lice?
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Who Gets Lice ?

• Anyone can get lice

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Nits and Lice

• Nits
• Lice

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Lice Check
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How to do a Lice Check

• Divide hair with Q-tips
• Check neckline, around ears, crown
• Nits more than ½ along hair shaft are only
  casings

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Getting Rid Of Lice

• Clean
• Shampoo
• Be a nit-picker
• Be selfish, no sharing
• RE-CHECK, RE-CHECK

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Dont panic

• Its not the end of the world

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GRANITE SCHOOL DISTRICT MEMORANDUM 44

• HEAD LICE PROCEDURES

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SCHOOL INTERVENTION AND NOTIFICATION

• HEAD LICE DETECTION
• LETTERS HOME
• Confirmed lice infestation
• Lice in the classroom
• HEAD LICE TREATMENT HANDOUT

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RETURN TO SCHOOL

• EVIDENCE OF TREATMENT
• Treatment verification letter
• ? NITS
• NO EXCESSIVE ABSENCES

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GSD HEALTH SERVICES CAN HELP YOU WITH

• LICE ALERT HANDOUT
• CLASSROOM CHECKLIST
• HEAD LICE DETECTION
• TRAINING
• RECURRENT CASE REFERRAL

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Questions?
Call your School Nurse Granite District Nursing
Services 685-4246