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Title: USD Training Health Requirements and Services: Medical Treatment 20092010


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USD TrainingHealth Requirements and Services
Medical Treatment2009-2010
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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.
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