Action Plans

Asthma Action Plan

Food Allergy Action Plan

Seizure Action Plan

Health Office Forms

Student Immunization Record Wavier

Dispensing Prescription/Non-Prescription Medications

Important Links

Mental Health and Emotional Well- being Website

Vaccine Preventable Diseases

When to Keep your Child Home from School

Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Wisconsin Department of Health Services

Wisconsin Immunization Registry Public Access Form

North Shore Health Department

Health Services

School nursing today is a specialized practice of professional nursing that advances the wellbeing, academic success, and life-long achievement of students. To that end, school nurses facilitate positive student responses to normal development; promote health and safety; intervene with actual and potential health problems; provide case management services; and actively collaborate with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self-management, self-advocacy and learning.
~National Association of School Nurses~

Health Services Program

The Nicolet High School Health Office is available on a full-time basis and includes the following:
- Individualized health care planning and case management for students with special health care needs
- Illness assessment and care
- Injury prevention, triage and care
- Medication administration and monitoring
- Health counseling and health promotion
- Communicable disease prevention and control
- Environmental health and safety
- Management of student health record data
- Emergency preparedness and response
- Intercommunication between/among students, parents, the school community and health care providers
- Selected health services are also provided for school staff

Communication

The school nurse can be reached by telephone, email or via a dedicated fax line. She is also generally available in the Health Office thirty minutes before the start of school and fifteen minutes after dismissal.

We encourage parents/guardians to call any time they have concerns and specifically for the following reasons:
- A new medical diagnosis or a change in your child’s health status
- A serious injury, illness or hospitalization
- A fracture, sprain, stitches, or a cast
- A contagious disease such as chicken pox, flu, strep throat, whooping cough
- If a child is absent for an extended period of time

To allow sufficient time to recover from an illness or injury, and to minimize the spread of an infectious illness, your child should be kept home from school if he/she has:
- A communicable disease

-Open sores with drainage or undiagnosed rash.
- Fever greater than 100 degrees F within the last 24 hours
- Vomiting/diarrhea within the last 24 hours
- Pain that requires the use of narcotic medications
- An upper respiratory illness with significant coughing and/or nasal discharge

When it is necessary to excuse your child from Physical Education, written documentation is required from your child’s physician.
Written documentation is also required to resume participation in Physical Education.

Medication Policy

- Medications must be delivered to the School Nurse in a correctly labeled pharmacy or manufacturer’s medication container by the parent, guardian or responsible adult. (Medications are not accepted in containers such as plastic bags.)

- All medication orders expire at the end of each school year. New medication orders are required at the start of the new school year.

- All medications must be picked up by a parent/guardian before the close of the school year. Any medications that are not picked up by the close of school will be donated to a clinic.

STUDENTS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO CARRY MEDICATIONS (OTHER THAN FOR USE IN AN EMERGENCY) IN THEIR BACKPACK WHILE AT SCHOOL. ANY MEDICATIONS FOUND WILL BE TAKEN TO THE HEALTH OFFICE. PARENTS CAN FILL OUT THE PROPER PAPERWORK SO THEIR CHILD CAN RECEIVE MEDICATIONS WHILE AT SCHOOL.

Any medications taken during the school year such as prescription meds, Epinephrine-pens, inhalers and insulin will need to have a signed physician’s order on the “Dispensing Prescription/Non-Prescription Medication” form found on the Health Office website. Please bring this form to the Health Office or it can be faxed to 414-435-9642.

If your child has a health condition which may result in frequent absences from school; please be specific when you call him/her in sick to the attendance line. We will excuse these absences if there is a doctor’s note on file and you state the specific reason for their absence.

Required Immunizations

An immunization certificate/record that includes the month, day and year the immunizations were administered needs to be submitted to and reviewed by the school nurse before the student begins school. 

Exemption

If there are medical, personal or religious reasons why your child has not been immunized, a waiver must be obtained and forwarded to the school nurse.

Guidelines for Management of Life-Threatening Allergies, Asthma, Seizures and Diabetes in school are available in the Health Office and on the Health Office Website. The following statements reflect the important highlights of these guidelines.

1. Parents should notify the School Nurse of their child’s Health Condition and schedule an appointment with the nurse to discuss the specifics of their child’s condition.

2. The School Nurse will develop an Individual Health Care Plan and/or an appropriate Action Plan/Emergency plan to ensure his/her safety while at school.

3. A physician order and signature will be required to put the plan in place.

Action plans and all forms are posted on the Health Office Information part of the Nicolet web site.

I look forward to working with you and your child.