Welcome to the SRD Health Home Page
I am very excited to be able to work with you and your child in promoting a happy, healthy, safe school year. Today's school nurse has the unique opportunity to combine the professions of nursing and education. In addition to monitoring communicable disease control, my role here includes health teaching, health promotion, health supervision and student advocate.
I will meet with your child many times while at Samuel R. Donald School. I will see each individually for health screenings, including annual height, weight and blood pressure measurement, vision, and hearing as required. Sometimes your child will come to me for occasional bumps or bruises while others visit for TLC (tender loving care) while working through personal issues.
I will call you for any immediate concerns or significant injuries since I believe good communication between home and school is essential. On the other hand, I would ask you to contact me or your child's teacher if your child is experiencing a particular health complaint or stressful situation.
Please be sure to provide me with your child's most current emergency phone numbers to expedite your notification in the event of illness or an emergency. Feel free to contact me at 973-838-5353 ext.203 or press 2 where an answering machine accepts messages 24 hours a day. I can also be reached by email at [email protected]
Important:
Please notify the school if your child is absent due to a serious illness or communicable disease. A physician's note is required for a student who has recovered from a communicable disease and is returning to school. The student must be seen by the school nurse before a final determination is made.
The exclusion times listed below are the minimum days a child should remain out of school for a particular illness. The school will honor the private physician's recommendation for additional exclusion days.
Communicable Disease Exclusion from School
- Chicken Pox six days after outset of rash and/or until lesions are dry. Physician's note is required.
- Common Cold should pot attend school if student has a temperature.
- Conjunctivitis (pink eye) until therapy has been instituted for 24 hours and discharge has ceased. Physician's note is required.
- German Measles (Rubella) five days after appearance of rash. Physician's note is required.
- Hepatitis Infection until end of febrile period and/or seven days following the onset of jaundice. Physician's note is required.
- Impetigo until 24 hours after treatment begins. Physician's note is required. Area must be covered in school.
- Measles (Rubeola) from onset of symptoms until rash and other symptoms are gone. May be five to ten days. Physician's note is required.
- Meningitis, Meningococcal until note is received from physician stating patient is able to return.
- Mononucleosis exclusion not necessary.
- Mumps for acute illness and/or nine days after swelling appears. Physician's note is required.
- Ringworm Physician's note required. Area is to be covered in school
- Scabies until the day after treatment. Physician's note is required.
- Streptococcal Infection: 24 hours after beginning of antibiotic therapy.
- Sore throat, Scarlet Fever, Physician's note is required
- Undiagnosed rash physician's note is required, stating patient is able to return to school.
Please notify the school if your child is absent due to a serious illness or communicable disease. A physician's note is required for a student who has recovered from a communicable disease and is returning to school. The student must be seen by the school nurse before a final determination is made.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Vogt