5340B - HEALTH EMERGENCIES AND FIRST AID CARE
Emergency Procedure
If a student or staff member requires immediate attention for an accident or illness, call 911 and request a paramedic if needed.
When the call is made, be sure to indicate:
where the emergency situation is located (include cross streets, if applicable);
telephone number where calling from;
brief description of what happened;
how many persons need help;
what has been or is being done for the victim(s).
Be sure to be the last to hang up!
The person in charge is to give clear, precise directions to those who need to be involved in the emergency and to clear the area of all unnecessary persons.
First Aid Procedures
Any staff member qualified to do so may administer first aid. After initial first aid treatment, the legal responsibility for subsequent care rests with the victim or the parents of a student victim.
FIRST AID AND MEDICAL STANDING ORDERS – ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
Medical Standing Orders are for the protection of the well person, the ill, the injured and the troubled, as well as for those school personnel who work with these people. Medical Standing Orders are standardized for the entire School Corporation. Only those treatments and procedures which are listed in the Medical Standing Orders may be used.
Each teacher is responsible to see that first aid or emergency care in injury or illness is provided to his/her students.
A teacher or principal may request the school nurse to contact a parent regarding one (1) of his/her students with a health problem. The school nurse will follow-up by phone call or letter to the parent requesting the needed health information and/or that action to be taken to improve the health status of the student.
Minor first aid may be done by designated teachers, secretaries, or the principal.
If the teacher or other staff member feels the need of additional reinforcement of his/her judgment concerning an accident or injury, s/he will see one of the persons designated by the principal as qualified first aiders and will abide by their judgment.
A record of all first aid and care of illness should be made and kept in each building. The record should contain the date, student’s name, statement of the injury or illness, what first aid or care was given, signature of first aider. This may be a simple spiral notebook kept with the first aid supplies.
FIRST AID AND MEDICAL STANDING ORDERS – SECONDARY SCHOOL
Only those treatments and procedures which are listed in the Medical Standing Orders may be used.
If an accident occurs in the gymnasium, outside, etc., the School Health Aide will go to the scene of the accident if requested to do so.
If the School Health Aide feels the need of additional reinforcement of his/her judgment concerning an accident or injury, s/he will send for one (1) of the persons designated by the principal as qualified first aiders and will abide by their judgment.
If the School Health Aide needs one of the first aiders s/he should enlist the services of the central office staff by calling the office and asking the clerk to locate the first aider and to notify the principal or the assistant principal.
ADMISSION OF STUDENTS TO HEALTH OFFICE
If a student presents himself/herself at the Health Office and has been injured or is obviously ill s/he may be admitted without a pass.
All other students who wish to be admitted to the Health Office must have a pass from the teacher to whom s/he is responsible for that period.
Students who do not feel well may be allowed to remain in the Health Office for a maximum of thirty (30) minutes. At the end of that time if s/he is not ready to go back to class the School Health Aide will phone the counselor, the assistant principal, or the principal for a decision and recommended disposition in the matter.
When a student returns to class from the Health Office the original pass will be used with the Health Aide placing on the pass the time and room number to which the student is going and her initials.
DISMISSAL OF ILL OR INJURED STUDENT
Students who come to the Health Office and either request to go home or exhibit signs or symptoms which according to the Medical Standing Orders would necessitate his/her being sent home will be handled in the following way:
If the student is injured, standard first aid will be done by the School Health Aide. The School Health Aide may notify by phone the counselor who is responsible for that student. The parent is to be notified. The assistant principal will fulfill the function of notifying the parent if the counselor is not available; the principal will fulfill the function of notifying the parent if the assistant principal is not available…or either of these two (2) persons also may request that the School Health Aide notify the parent.
If the student exhibits signs/symptoms of illness such as elevated temperature, vomiting, etc., the School Health Aide will phone his/her findings to the student’s counselor, to the assistant principal, or to the principal; based on the Medical Standing Orders, whichever of the persons above are notified will decide whether the parent is to be notified. The counselor, assistant principal, or the principal may wish to notify the parent, or s/he may request the School Health Aide to notify the parent.
NOTE: Injured and ill students will remain under observation in the Health Office until the parent arrives.
All students will sign out with the Attendance Clerk.
REFERRAL TO SCHOOL NURSE
The school nurses will be available for phone or personal consultation whenever necessary, thus being available for assistance to any student, parent, teacher, or other staff member.
All messages for the school nurses and all requests for counseling by the school nurses will be recorded by the School Health Aide.
The following information will be recorded concerning each message or request for counseling:
name and title of person (student, parent, counselor)
date and time
message or request (may be simply "talk to nurse")
telephone number
The following circumstances or events will always be reported immediately to the school nurses by the School Health Aide:
a puncture wound whether occurring at home or school which comes to the attention of the School Health Aide
any bite whether animal or human
any wound which appears to be infected whether having occurred at home or school if the student has not seen a doctor
follow Medical Standing Orders (AG 5340F)
any other circumstance or event about which the School Health Aide has a question
ORDERING OF SUPPLIES
A small reserve of first aid supplies will be kept in each secondary Health Office.
In any case involving bodily fluids, the District's Blood-Borne Pathogens Policy 8453 and Policy 8453.01 and AG 8453 and AG 8453.01 must be followed.