Health & Nursing Services

Illness Guidelines:

Please follow the guidelines below for keeping your child home when they are ill:

• How Sick is Too Sick?

The best way to prevent the spread of illness is through good hand washing and staying home when sick.

Health Care Plans:

Health care plans are designed to be a collaborative effort between your child's health care provider, you as the parent, and the School Nurse. This document lays out the plan for how your student will be cared for while in school if they have a medical diagnosis and a need for intervention, to include medication administration, if necessary.

If your child needs a health care plan, the following documents can be taken to your provider to be completed and brought back to school. All care plans must be renewed annually and turned in ideally before school starts.

• Allergy/Anaphylaxis
• Asthma
• Diabetes (links to Colorado Kids with Diabetes website)
• Seizure Action Plan

This list is not comprehensive and if your child has an illness or condition not listed above, please contact the School Nurse.

Self-Carry Contracts:

Self-carry contracts are for those students responsible enough to carry their own asthma inhaler or EpiPen while in school and are able to administer the medication to themselves in the event of an emergency. This agreement is to be signed by the student, the parent and School Nurse and does not require a provider's signature.

• Asthma/Allergy Self-Carry Contract