Andover Elementary Middle School has a full time nurse. The role of a school nurse is to support student success by helping to keep them healthy, safe, in school and ready to learn. Please contact the school nurse with any questions or concerns regarding your child's health, as well as with any changes in your child's medical history or medications.
If a student is injured or becomes ill during school hours, the nurse will assess him or her. Emergency first aid and support measures will be provided until a parent or guardian can be contacted. Any Child who has a fever (>100°), vomiting, diarrhea a contagious and or undiagnosed rash, or at the discretion of the school nurse, will not be allowed to remain in school until symptoms have resolved.
The child will be released only to a parent, guardian, or adult authorized as an Emergency Contact by the parent.
Consider the following guidelines when deciding to keep your child home from school:
A temperature over 100. Please remember that Acetaminophen and ibuprofen can mask a fever, measure temperature prior to administering. May not return until 24 hours fever free.
Vomiting and/or diarrhea ,should not return until they have been symptom free x 24 hours and tolerating food.
A cough that keeps your child up at night and worsens with activity.
Persistent red sore throat, especially enlarge tonsils.
Severe, persistent earache
Attendance
If your child will not be attending school, please communicate through PICK UP PATROL (this is the preferred mode of communication) or call the Health Office @ 735-5500 prior to 7:45 a.m. and leave a message. Please leave your name, student, name, and nature of illness or reason for absence. If we do not get a note ahead of time or hear from you that day, the nurse must contact a parent or guardian that morning to account for the whereabouts of each missing child. This communication aides in the tracking of illness and assures school officials and parents that all children are safe and accounted for every school day.
Immunizations & Physical
When you register your child for kindergarten you will need to provide the school with his/her immunization record and proof of a physical dated one year prior to the start of the school year. Please let the school nurse know if you have any medical or religious reason for not having your child immunized.
Any student transferring to the Andover Elementary Middle School from either a public or private school must provide a written copy of the student's immunization record per New Hampshire law He-P 301.13-15 and proof of a physical.
In order for middle school students to participate in sports, documentation of a sports physical after January 1 st of grade 5 must be presented.
Medication at School
If your son or daughter requires a prescribed medication at school, the nurse must have a physicians order for the CURRENT school year. Included should be the name of the medication, time medication to be administered, route of administration and diagnosis. Students may not carry any medication to and from school with the exception of inhalers for asthma and Epi-Pens for severe allergic reactions as long as there is a Medication order and Allergy or Asthma Action Plan on file. Medication must be in its original container and brought to the school by an adult.
Authorization to dispense medication and permission to carry attached.
AEMS will stock non-prescription medications such as Acetaminophen, Ibuprofen, Tums, and Benadryl. These over the counter medications will be given only in certain circumstances and only with written parental permission.
Consent to Dispense Over the Counter Medications