Health room staff:

 

 

If You Feel Sick:

If you feel ill, get your planner signed from your teacher and go to the health room immediately. The health clerk will check you in, take your temperature, and phone your parents if you need to go home. Please stay home if you feel ill before school.

Emergencies and First Aid:

Care will be given up to the limits of the state law. An aid car will be summoned for injuries or illness, which are judged to require more than basic first aid. It is very important that you have current emergency contacts and phone numbers on file in the health room.

Picking Up Sick Students:

If your student becomes ill at school, and needs to go home, he or she can only leave with someone listed on their emergency card. Please be sure that anyone who you may want to pick up your student is on that card.

Health Screening:

A specialist will screen all seventh grade students for the following: vision, hearing, solipsism and kyphosis. If you or your parents have questions, please talk to the health clerk or nurse.

Immunizations:

Every student must have proof of immunization on file at the school before the first day of attendance. All students must b e immunized according to WAC 248-100-163. You can be excluded from school if your immunizations are not complete. For details, please see the health clerk.

Lice:

The Bethel School District has a "no nit" policy. If you have any lice or eggs in your hair, dead or alive, you cannot attend school. If you think you have some head lice, come see the health clerk. Don't be embarrassed if you have them - lice like to live in clean hair! The nurse or health clerk will help you and your parents learn how to remove lice. You will be checked again before you can return to school.

Medication:

You may not administer medications yourself at school. Examples include (but not limit to) aspirin, cough drops, over the counter and prescription medicine. School district employees can give you medication when the proper procedure is followed. If you are under care of a doctor or dentist, and need to take medication, please follow this procedure:

1. Ask the health clerk for a medication request form. Your doctor and parents must sign it.

2. Your parents must return the form to the health clerk along with a limited amount of necessary medication (In the original container)

The medication is kept in a locked drawer in the health room. You come to the health room (with a pass) when you need the medication, and the health clerk will dispense and document it.

Phone Number: 683-8093