UHS Health Services
Welcome to the School Nurse Health Services website information.
" School Nursing today is a specialized practice of professional nursing that advances the well being, academic success, and life long achievement of students. To that end, the 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 family capacity for adaptation, self-management, self-advocacy and learning."
~National Association of School Nursing~
Tara Schiller, MSN, RN, CPN, NCSN
District Lead Nurse/UHS Nurse
Uxbridge High School
tschiller@uxbridge.k12.ma.us
Phone: 508-278-8633
Fax: 508-278-8647
School Nurses monitor the health status, and identify and address unmet health needs of students. The School Health Unit of the Department of Public Health in Massachusetts in collaboration with the National Association of School Nurses, define services provided through the health office. Some of the services provided at Uxbridge High School are:
Leadership for the provision of health services
Assures that health needs are met for all students
Individualized health care planning
Case management for students with health care needs
Student support team member
Wellness committee member
Crisis team member
Direct health care to students and staff
Management of chronic conditions
Injury, first aid, and prevention
Illness assessment and treatment
Medication administration
Health counseling
Health screenings and referral for health conditions
Postural
Hearing and vision
Height, weight, and BMI measurements
SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and referral to treatment)
Healthy School Environment
Management of school health records
Physical examinations
Immunizations
Communicable disease prevention and control
Environmental health and safety
Intercommunication between school community,
students, parents, and health care providers