St. Charles Borromeo School
Nurse's Notes
ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICATION
New Jersey State Law requires the
following regulations be followed before the school nurse may
dispense prescription and/or over the counter medication:
1. The student must present a note written by the prescribing
doctor to the school nurse giving her permission to dispense the
medication to the student. The note must include the name and
dosage of the medication and the time to be given as well as any
other directions. In addition, the parent or guardian must give
written permission to the school nurse to dispense medication to
his/her child. Therefore, two notes are required by law for
dispensing medication -one from the doctor and one from a parent
or guardian.
2. Medication must be brought to school in the original
container, appropriately labeled by the pharmacy and physician,
stating the name of the drug, dosage, and time to be given by the
school nurse.
3. The student must bring all medication to the nurse's office
immediately upon his/her arrival in school. No student may carry
medication of any kind on his/her person during school hours.
4. No student will be given medication by the school nurse unless
the
above regulations are followed.
Note: If possible, arrange times so that medication may
be administered at home.
ATTENDANCE
If your child is to progress favorably in school he/she should be
in good health and be able to attend school daily. Good sense
dictates that it is most inappropriate for your child to come to
school when he/she is ill. Your child needs to remain at home
during illness so recovery will be quick, and other students are
not subjected to the illness. We ask you to protect your child
and our students by keeping your child at home during the time of
his/her illness.
DIRECTIVES FOR STUDENT ABSENCES
Keep your child at home until he/she is completely well. On the
morning of your child's absence and on each subsequent day of
absence, call the nurse's office at 829-2980 before 8 AM to
report the absence. Leave a message stating your child's name,
homeroom, and reason for absence on the answering machine. Also,
at this time, please state whether someone will come to school to
pick up the student's homework for that day. If you have
registered your child for the C. A. R. E. S. Program for that
day, please inform the nurse on the answering machine that your
child will not be attending the program that day due to illness.
The nurse relays all information to the appropriate staff
members.
On the day of your child's return to class after an illness or
other absence, he/she must present from his/her parent to his/her
homeroom teacher a written absence note stating the length of the
absence and the reason for the absence. No child may be admitted
to class after an absence without the above note. If a student
has been absent due to illness on three or more consecutive days,
a doctor's certificate must also be presented with the parental
note.
LATENESS
If a student oversleeps or is late for some other reason, send
him/her to school. It is better to be late than to miss class
completely. If a student is late:
1. The parent is to send a note of explanation with the student.
2. Upon arrival in school, the student is to report to the
nurse's office to obtain a late
slip.
3. Any student in Grades K to 8 who arrives after 8:20 AM is
late.
Please see the Regulations for Communicable Diseases
listed in the hard copy of the student handbook, distributed in
September.
