Medication
These three things are required for a medication to be administered at school.
What are, current parent signature, current provider signature, and (unexpired) medication provided from home?
This health office partner is responsible for creating and maintaining individual health plans and emergency health plans for students.
What is the Licensed School Nurse?
This is the minimum length of notice (amount of time) the health office requests to prepare for a field trip.
What is ten school days or two weeks?
This is the 1st step of the special education Evalution/Re-evaluation process
What is the PWN (prior written notice/consent to evaluate)?
A student reportedly fell off of the slide at recess and landed on their head. This communication must be made to their family.
What is a phone call home and a head injury notification?
This object, when used correctly, increases the efficacy of medication administered through a metered-dose inhaler.
What is a spacer/valved-holding chamber?
This type of plan must be created for any student who has a condition that could result in a life-threatening emergency at school.
What is an emergency health plan (EHP)?
When preparing for student health needs on a field trip, these need to be shared when delegating to staff.
What are medication administration training and review of emergency health plans for the students going on the trip.
You must wait for this before starting any portions of a student's special education evaluation/re-evaluation.
What is the parent/guardian's signature on the PWN (or implied consent to start)?
You wake up ill and know that you cannot come to work. You alert your health office partner and the principal, secretary, and health office back-ups at your site. It is also critically important that you send an email to this email address.
What is HRS.Staffing@mpls.k12.mn.us?
This, when signed by a caregiver/guardian, is both a consent to administer medication and a release of information.
What is MPS Authorization for Administration of Medication at School?
This is a detailed plan provided by a student's endocrinology team that describes how to care for the student's diabetic needs at school.
What is a clinical diabetic care plan for school?
This is a tool to keep the dates, times, locations, and other field trip details organized.
What is a field trip spreadsheet?
These are the three most common type of special education meetings that you will attend for each student.
What are the Evaluation Planning meeting, the Evaluation Results meeting, and the Annual IEP meeting?
A student injury takes place and you are unsure about exactly how to assess it. You know you have this first aid resource.
What is WISHeS protocols?
It is ok for teachers/school staff to administer medications to students only if they have gone through this process.
What is delegation by the licensed school nurse?
Individual health plans (IHP's) and Emergency health plans (EHP's) must be updated this often.
What is annually and as needed when new information is known?
This is a document that must go along on a field trip for a student whose condition could result in a life-threatening emergency.
What is an emergency health plan?
These are the "nursing parts" that we add to the prior written notice (PWN)/consent to evaluate.
What are parent interview, review of attendance, review of student health record, and vision/hearing/growth screenings?
A student injury takes place that results in the student following up at the emergency room. You know that this document must be completed.
What is a student/non-employee accident/incident report?
After administering this specific medication, a 911 call is always required.
What is an epi-pen (epinephrine auto-injector)?
This is how an LSN prepares for a student if they have a severe allergy diagnosed but no medications kept at school.
What is "Write a No-Med Allergy EHP" and share it with appropriate school staff?
The whole school is planning to go on a field trip. This is one way that students can get their health needs met on the field trip.
What is the school nurse going along for the field trip?
You are entering your parts into the PWN but the previous nurses name is already there. You know there is something you must do.
What is delete the previous parts and re-enter the parts before putting your name into the field?
The mission of this organization is to optimize student health and learning by advancing the practice of school nursing.
What is the National Association of School Nurses?