Diseases and Conditions
Texas law and school board policy require certain cases of communicable disease be reported to the local health department, which then relays the information to the Texas DSHS.
What is Texas Notifiable Conditions?
Guidance that outlines a students need for health services, steps of the nursing process and student outcomes/goals to promote student health, prevent disease, and enhance academic achievement.
What is an Individual Health Plan?
DSHS Texas covers the conditions under which a parent/guardian may request vaccination exemption for their child.
What are Medical and Reason of Conscience?
Professional organization that provides resources specific to school nursing such as state level membership in the Texas School Nurses Organization, as well as membership forums, document sharing, liability insurance discounts, and access to professional journals.
What is National Association of School Nurses?
Because of the increasingly alarming rates of children developing type 2 diabetes, these assessments are important and can help identify children with high insulin levels who may be at risk for developing the disease.
What is Acanthosis Nigricans (AN)/Texas Risk for Type 2 Diabetes in Children Assessment?
The school nurse coordinates with parents, teachers and Administrator when a field trip is planned and a student in attendance has an identifiable health condition that may require medication administration offsite. This document provides guidance for medication to be given on field trips/offsite events.
What is Texas DSHS: Guide to Medication Administration in the School Setting?
Texas Guide to School Health Programs, Region 13 Education Service Center, Hutto ISD Standing Medical Orders, Nutrislice, DSHS, CDC, Texas BON, WILCO Health Department and American Academy of Pediatrics are all examples of this.
What are Health Services Resources?
Immunization requirements are established by this department or organization in conjunction with the Texas Education Code. This department provides guidance on minimum requirements, exceptions, provisional enrollment, and minimum documentation requirements.
What is the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS)?
Guidelines that include DSHS recommendations for the prevention and control of communicable diseases in a group-care setting consisting of major criterion for exclusion from attendance.
What is Communicable Disease Chart and Notes for Schools and Childcare Centers?
A parent/guardian is entitled to access to all written records of a school district concerning the parent’s child, including health and immunization information. The Health Office is to direct parents/guardians to follow appropriate procedures for requesting records through this entity.
What is Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) clerk (registrar) on the campus?
A model that focuses on the child to align the common goals of both education and public health to put into action a whole child approach to education.
What is Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) Model?
This organization provides resources on mental health support. The School Nurse will encounter a student's mental health needs directly or indirectly. Children and adolescents may experience psychological or emotional stress through physical symptoms. It is common for an adolescent with depression to exhibit recurrent psychosomatic symptoms such as abdominal pain, chest pain, headache, lethargy, weight loss, dizziness, syncope, or other nonspecific complaints, any or all of which may lead to visits to the nurse.
What is Texas Education Agency?