Get to know your Health Services Team:

Emily Mjelleli - District Nurse - MPH, LSN, BSN, RN

Marie Pagel - Building Nurse - LSN, BSN, RN

Licensed School Nurses are responsible, as the recognized healthcare expert in the school setting, for coordinating, managing, and promoting the health and safety of individual students to minimize or eliminate health related barriers to learning.

Advocacy and Support - LSN’s with their unique knowledge and experience are able to evaluate and advocate for students’ health needs, and potential barriers thus enabling them to receive appropriate accommodations and support to participate fully in their educational process.

How we accomplish this

• IHP - We write Individual Health Plan's for students with medical conditions and partner with case managers to coordinate medical needs into the students IEP.

• Provide vision and hearing screenings.

• Provide care for both acute and chronic health conditions and / or specialized care for students with medically complex needs.

• Student wellness, first aid as needed but we also provide emergency care.

• Planning, training, intervention and collaboration with families

• Student social and emotional needs.

Infectious Disease

• Promoting health measures

• Monitoring and requiring immunizations

• Following exclusion guidelines for various conditions

• Responsible for disease prevention and infection control for communicable disease surveillance 

• Reporting specific illnesses to the Department of Health (Reporting as required to MDH)

• Infectious Disease management in the population