USD Training Health Requirements and Services: Medical Treatment 20082009

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USD TrainingHealth Requirements and Services
Medical Treatment2008-2009
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Notification of Parents

• Parents will be notified of a childs accident or
  sudden illness as soon as possible
• If a student is ill, parents need to be
  contacted the teacher should consult with the
  principal/designee, who will contact the home.

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Consent to Emergency Medical Treatment

• An administrator or school nurse or designee at
  the minor students school may consent to
  emergency medical treatment of that student
  provided that the person having the power to
  consent as otherwise provided by law cannot be
  contacted to give the consent - UCA 78-14-5(4C).

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Consent to Emergency Medical Treatment

• Consent to medical treatment shall be in writing,
  signed by the school official giving consent, and
  given to the physician, hospital, or other
  medical facility that administers the treatment.

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School Health Program

• Uintah School District participates in vision
  screenings, hearing screenings, encouragement of
  dental checks of all children, and health
  counseling for parents provided by the school
  nurse.

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School Health Program

• First aid supplies will be available in every
  school in a convenient place
• Communicable disease control will include
  decisions regarding closing schools when
  epidemics occur or threaten and communicable
  diseases lists provided by the health department,
  which will include information regarding
  isolation, exclusion from school, and signs and
  symptoms of suspected communicable diseases.

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Procedures for Dealing With Blood Borne
Pathogens

• See Policy 007.0715 Guidelines for Handling Body
  Fluids, and Policy 007.0705 Acquired Immune
  Deficiency Syndrome Policy for more information
  on issues related to these topics.

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Emergency First Aid Treatment

• When any student on school grounds is in need of
  life-sustaining emergency care (defined as any
  procedure or intervention that may prevent a
  student from dying who, without such procedure or
  intervention, faces a risk of imminent death),
  staff shall immediately call 911.
• While awaiting paramedics or medical assistance,
  appropriately trained staff members (including
  the school nurse, if possible) shall take all
  reasonable steps to provide first aid assistance.

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Emergency First Aid Treatment

• If the need is dire and untrained school staff
  are the only ones available, the untrained staff
  person should, after the call to 911 is made,
  assist the victim until help arrives.
• USD employees may administer emergency first aid
  medical treatment to students or others on school
  property when conditions so require, without any
  liability to either the School District or the
  administering employee.

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Life-Sustaining Emergency Care Do Not
Resuscitate Order (DNR)

• The district will not comply with do not
  resuscitate orders and other directives from
  parents or others that request that
  life-sustaining emergency care not be provided to
  a particular student in need of such care while
  under the control and supervision of the school.
• The district shall consider requests for
  alternative forms of life-sustaining emergency
  care, but those requests must be supported by
  written medical substantiation by the childs
  physician.

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Life-Sustaining Emergency Care Do Not
Resuscitate Order (DNR)

• Determinations shall be made on such requests by
  a team of persons at the school who are
  knowledgeable about the child.
• This team may ask additional outside information
  when necessary for a decision.
• Any determination made on such a request must be
  based on the likelihood that the chosen form of
  life sustaining emergency care shall maintain the
  childs life until an ambulance arrives or the
  student is otherwise transported to the care of
  medical personnel.

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Administering Medication Authorized employees
of USD may administer medication to a student
during periods when the student is under the
control of the school, subject to the following
conditions

• The district has received, from the parent or
  legal guardian of the student, a current written
  and signed request (updated and resubmitted each
  year, on a form approved by USD) to administer
  the medication when the student is under the
  control of the school.
• The students physician, dentist, nurse
  practitioner, or physician assistant has provided
  a signed statement describing the method, amount,
  and time schedule for administration, along with
  the side effects that may be seen in the school
  setting.

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Administering Medication Authorized employees
of USD may administer medication to a student
during periods when the student is under the
control of the school, subject to the following
conditions

• Administering over-the-counter medications
  requires a prescribing practitioner statement as
  well as consent of the parent or guardian.
• Protocol for administering over-the-counter
  medications is the same as for administering
  prescription medications.
• Oral, topical, and inhalant medication may be
  administered by assigned school personnel
  medications requiring other routes of
  administration will not be given by school
  personnel, except in emergency situations in
  non-emergency situations, medications requiring
  other routes of administration must e given by a
  registered nurse or the parent/guardian
  exceptions will be addressed within a 504
  accommodation plan.

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Administering Medication Authorized employees
of USD may administer medication to a student
during periods when the student is under the
control of the school, subject to the following
conditions

• All medication that is to be given at school must
  be furnished by the parent or guardian and
  delivered to school by a responsible adult (not
  sent with the student).
• All prescription medication must be in the
  original container, labeled by the pharmacy with
  the name of the student, the name of the
  physician, the name of the medication, the amount
  to be given (dose), and the duration of the
  treatment.
• Over-the-counter drugs must be in the original
  bottle and labeled with the students name.
• All medication provided to the school shall be
  kept in a secure location in the central office
  or nurses office under lock and key, with the
  principal assigning one or more trained personnel
  the responsibility of administering student
  medication.

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Administering Medication Authorized employees
of USD may administer medication to a student
during periods when the student is under the
control of the school, subject to the following
conditions

• Only the principal and persons authorized to
  administer medication shall have access to the
  medications.
• A record, including the type of medication,
  amount, and the time and day it was administered
  must be kept for each student receiving
  medication at school the person administering
  the medication must sign the record each time
  medication is given.
• Students shall not carry or self-administer
  medication on school premises unless it is
  expressly ordered by the students physician.
• Authorization for administration of medication by
  school personnel may be withdrawn by the school
  at any time following actual notice to the
  students parent or guardian (UCA 53A-11-601).

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Administering Medication Authorized employees
of USD may administer medication to a student
during periods when the student is under the
control of the school, subject to the following
conditions

• Authorized school personnel who provide
  assistance as set forth in this policy in
  substantial compliance with physicians or
  dentists written statements and the Uintah
  School District are not liable civilly or
  criminally for any adverse reaction suffered by
  the student as a result of taking the medication
  or discontinuing the administration of the
  medication pursuant to the provisions of this
  policy - UCA 53A-11-601(3).

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Authorized Employees The School Board delegates
to the Superintendent and the Principal,
authority to select and appoint authorized
employees who may administer medications pursuant
to this policy in each building.

• Employees appointed and authorized to administer
  medication shall be provided training annually by
  the School District and the local department of
  health.
• The training shall include, at minimum
• Proper practices and procedures for administering
  medication
• Proper identification and safekeeping of
  medications
• Record keeping procedures
• Emergency first-aid procedures
• Identification of adverse reactions to
  medications
• Proper understanding and application of School
  District medication policies.

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• For more information, please refer to USD policy
  007.0720, Health Requirements and Services
  Medical Treatment.