School Clinic
School Nurse
Catherine Lucas
Illness
When to Stay Home
Students with symptoms of illness, such as rashes, fever, sore throat, vomiting, coughing, runny nose, pink eye, or diarrhea, should stay home until a doctor evaluates their symptoms and determines whether they are contagious or not. The Prince
William County Department of Health recommends that students remain home fever-free, vomit-free, and diarrhea-free for 24 hours after an illness.
Taking Your Student Home
Our clinic works to control and manage student exposure to contagious diseases. We will call you if your student exhibits symptoms of illness, including but not limited to:
- •COVID-19 Symptoms
- Fever• Persistent abdominal pain
- Vomiting
- Unexplained rash
- Diarrhea
- Head lice
- Inflamed eyes with discharge
- Persistent cough
When called, we ask that you make arrangements to pick up your student as soon as possible. It is important that the office has current phone numbers on the emergency card. Please make sure that individuals who are authorized to pick up your
child from school are listed on the emergency card.
Medication
- All medicine must be in its original container, absolutely UNOPENED, with student's name.
- All medicine (over the counter or prescription) administered at school, must have a medication authorization form on file in the clinic.
- Prescription medicine must have a physician's signature on the form before medicine can be administered.
- Absolutely NO medication is to be sent to school with the student. If a student is known to be carrying any type of medication, it will be confiscated by and kept with Nurse Catherine until a parent or guardian retrieves it from the clinic. Therefore, parents please bring to the clinic any and all medication with its corresponding Medication Authorization Form signed by a physician.
- Cough drops are no longer considered medication and can be carried by students without medication form. Cough drops need to be in their original package.
- Students with allergies and/or asthma should have an asthma and/or allergy plan on file as well.