Health Accommodations
A student with a life-threatening food allergy should have one of these listed in their health inventory.
What is a Diet Modification form?
The lead attendance clerk has requested to view the health records of a student diagnosed with Diabetes because her nephew has the same condition. This rule protects this student's records.
What is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)?
These tools may be used to transport staff or students with mobility challenges down the stairs safely in an emergency situation.
What is a Stryker Chair or Mega Mover?
These two items are required before a nurse may administer prescription medications in the school setting.
What are current physician orders and parental consent?
The school nurse is looking for a process map to guide decision making regarding a student with lice. Where does the nurse look first?
What is LiveBinder?
The school nurse will provide a list of students that have, or are regarded as having, a health condition. Nurse will run the Skyward report Health Conditions by Student and bring list to this meeting that occurs twice each year.
What is Child Find Meeting?
Required for students who do not provide an immunization record and come from another school in Texas, are homeless, or have an actively deployed guardian serving in the military.
What is 30 days provisional enrollment.
These are labeled or identified locations to sort large groups of "victims" during a mass casualty situation.
What are triage zones?
These state-mandated screenings in Texas require parental consent before being conducted and offer valuable insights into a student's health and wellness.
What is hearing, vision, scoliosis, and acanthosis?
A school nurse needs help remembering where and how to run a report that will show all students with unresolved vision referrals at her school so she can follow up with See to Succeed consents. This nurse would find the _____ ______ Report instructions under the ______ __ tab in LiveBinders.
What is the Screening Referral Report under the Power BI tab?
Each student on a health plan should be considered individually to determine whether a referral for this is needed.
What is 504?
These nuisance pests are entitled to free public education, and the law SB 1566, section 14 and Texas Education Code Section 38.031 only requires elementary campus notification to the parents of each child assigned to the same classroom as the child with this pest no later than the 5th day on which the nurse, administrator becomes aware of the fact.
What is lice?
This is a mandatory step to be completed by a nurse or other school personnel AFTET narcan was administered to an unresponsive person exhibiting symptoms of an opioid overdose.
What is the Report of Naloxone Administration form?
This a core priority for school nurses and if it is not done, it did not happen.
What is documentation/charting?
The school nurse needs a form for a parent to request asthma administration at school, so the nurse goes to Live Binder and prints what form to give to this parent.
What is Asthma Action Plan Orders or Asthma Self Carry?
Students with Type 1 diabetes could have frequent trips to the bathroom, clinic, and need additional time during testing procedures. The nurse should refer the student to which Special Program for consideration of these accommodations?
What is 504 placement?
SB865 out of the 89th legislature, known as the Landon Payton Act, provides guidance and instruction for public schools to conduct at least two of these on their campus annually.
What are cardiac response drills?
These items should live harmoniously together and should always accompany the nurse during an unknown emergency response. Hint: 3-answers.
What is the AED, Stop the Bleed kit, and Narcan?
This woman founded the nursing profession.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
The school nurse remembers that there are certain rules for retaining records, but they can't remember how long a particular document needs to be kept. They open Live Binder to find the answer under this tab.
What is Records Management?
This particular placement is the most restrictive and should only be used as a last resort, but could be needed for a long-term medical condition making it difficult or unsafe to attend school in-person.
What is Homebound?
This act prevents the exclusion of homeless or displaced students for lack of immunizations.
What is the McKinney-Vento Act?
These items provide objective assessment data when responding to a medical emergency and as best practice, these 3 items would be carried by the nurse while on duty so they are always prepared. Hint: 3 answers
What is a stethoscope, incandescent pen light, and pulse oximeter?
This tool provides a communication option between parents and the school nurse to discuss any health-related events for students on campus.
What is Parent-Square?
The school nurse knows the district offers vision assistance and cannot wait to take students to See to Succeed but cannot find that email from Shannon with the log needed to capture students attending. What to do, they first go to ______ ________ and look for the tab _________.
What is LIVE BINDER & See to Succeed?