Nurse's Page

-Asthma Forms (FORM H 2)-ANNUAL RENEWAL REQUIRED

- Epi Pen and Food Allergy Form (FORM H 1)-ANNUAL RENEWAL REQUIRED

- 2022-23 (6th grade ONLY) Immunization Letter and 6th grade Vaccine Table (FORM M 9)

 

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• Vision, Hearing, Height, Weight and Blood Pressure are monitored yearly.
• Parents are notified if a significant problem is noted.
• Scoliosis screenings are done bi-annually for 5th and 7th graders in the spring. Letters are sent home approximately 1 month prior to screening, you may choose to exclude your student from this screening. Please use the link below to exempt your child from these screenings:
  Screening Exemption Form (must be completed annually) Screening Exemption Form

Protocol for Absences

 

Providing a healthy and safe environment for your children is the primary goal of the School Nurse.
The following guidelines must be used when determining if your child should be kept home from school:

• Common Cold - Your child may return to school when the severity of the symptoms subsides
  and the temperature has been normal for 24 hours without medication.
• Ear Infections - Your child may return when pain free and the temperature is normal.
• Fever - Your child may return when their temperature has been normal for 24 hours without medication.
• Lice - If your child has lice. Parent(s)/Guardian(s) must treat the child’s hair
  (contact your doctor for further instruction), and remove the lice eggs from the hair.
• Pink eye - Your child may return after being on medication for 24 hours.
• Pneumonia/Bronchitis - Consult your physician.
• Strep Throat - Strep is not contagious after 24 hours on appropriate medication. I suggest that you
  keep your child home for 48 hours as a matter of good health practice. Always remember to replace
  your child's toothbrush after a strep infection.
• Vomiting/Diarrhea/Flu - Your child may return after there has been no vomiting or diarrhea and is
  fever free for 24 hours.

 

Protocol for Exemption from P.E. & Activities at School

 

Physical Education is a regular part of our school curriculum. If a child has an injury or illness that
requires that they be excused from activity in physical education, a physician’s order MUST be sent
to the nurse and will be given to the PE teacher. It is expected that any child who has restricted activity in physical education will have restricted activity at recess. We need to be certain that any student who is recovering from an injury or illness is safe at school.

• Please check the middle school calendar for deadlines for sports physicals/paperwork, seasonal sports sign ups and tryout dates.
• Student's eligibility for tryouts is determined by a current sport physical on record in the health office before tryout day. (A current physical means that a student has had a physical within 365 days prior to the tryout date and a completed state mandated form is on record for the student in the health office.)
• The 90 Day Health History update form is a NJ state requirement and is necessary if the date of the physical on file is over 90 days from the first day of tryouts.
• Students who do not have this paperwork in the health office by the sports calendar deadlines WILL NOT BE ELIGIBLE FOR TRYOUTS!! NO EXCEPTIONS WILL BE MADE!!
• Please call the health office, 973-543-7107 ext. 221, if you are unsure of your child's eligibility.

The following must be completed, submitted to the nurse, and approved by our school doctor prior to try-outs. There will NEVER EVER be exceptions.