Health Room Services
HEALTH ROOM
Passes
Students must have a pass from their teacher to visit the health room. (Exception: emergencies or during lunch)
Dismissal
Dismissal from school through the health room will require permission from a parent, legal guardian, or emergency contact on the current school year student emergency information form. If contact with one of these individuals is not possible, the student will not be dismissed.
Attendance
Students spending longer than 25 minutes of class time in the health room will be counted as absent from that class period.
Medication required during the school day
All medication must be kept in the health room. (Any exception needs written authorization from your physician.)
All over-the-counter medications brought to school must have written parent permission on file in the health room. All prescription medications and any medication that a student self-administers must also have written physician permission on file in the health room. Permission forms can be obtained from the school nurse or downloaded from the FIHS website. Go to the Students tab then click on Printable Forms and scroll to health room Forms.
All medication must be provided in the original container.
Prescription medication must be delivered to the school by a parent/legal guardian with a label matching the dose and administration time per physician orders.
Parents are required to bring prescription medication to school and provide form MED-1 before any prescription medication may be left at the school. If your child must self-administer medication at school, form MED-2 is required before medication is brought to school. More detailed forms for anaphylaxis and asthma are available and should be used. A parent may provide written authorization for over-the-counter medication to be kept and administered in the health room using form MED-3.
All Health Services procedures and guidelines and these forms are available at: http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/gcsd/depts/stuserv/health.asp
Special Exemption Passes
Health room passes exempting a student from P.E. or granting special privileges due to obvious illness/injury will be issued at the discretion of the school nurse when a written request is submitted by a parent/legal guardian. Passes requested for longer than 3 days must be accompanied by a written physician request.
The following are various things that should be handled between classes and not during classes, and these reasons will not excuse tardiness. A note to class will not be given by the nurse for: Band-Aids , Alcohol for piercings, Broken shoe straps. Lingering in the health room is not allowed. Students will be sent back to class unless they are sick enough to go home.
Student Emergency Forms
Forms will be given to all students during the first week of school. Please have parents complete, sign, and return to school. It is very important that this information is on file in the health room in case of an emergency and for safe dismissal purposes (we can only use the current year's student information form.)