The School District of Washington’s Health Services Department has come up with information parents need to know to make for a smooth transition into the 2020-21 school year.
Some procedures are different than past years to limit the number of people in buildings.
*See below,
or click here, the school nurse algorithm for sending symptomatic students home from school and when they can return. Nurses in each building will follow this chart.
*Please call your school nurse and set up a specific time to bring student medications to school. Your school nurse will meet you in the vestibule or outside.
*Students who are enrolled in full time e-learning still need up to date immunization records.
*Please call your school nurse to discuss any chronic health conditions that your child may have including seasonal allergies, food allergies, etc., so we are not sending them home unnecessarily.
*To ensure self-screens are being done daily, parents are required to screen their children for symptoms each morning.
Click here for more details or see below.
*If called to pick up your child due to illness, it will be necessary to have timely transportation available. Please make arrangements with relatives, friends or neighbors to help in the event that you are unable to make it to your child's school in a timely fashion.
*Per recommendations from the CDC, we will not be using nebulizers. We’ll be working with parents to transition students to inhalers.
Additionally, nurses will no longer be able to monitor students over the course of a few hours to see if they worsen before determining if they need to go home or not. Nurses will be more rigid than the past in making that determination.
Please know that our screening requirements may change as guidance changes.
Click here for contact information for nurses in the School District of Washington.
