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Health Services

The Naugatuck Public School Nurses work collaboratively to coordinate health and other services as needed to maximize the educational potential of all students. Collaboration involves partnerships with families, other school professionals, and community health and social service providers and agencies. The school medical director, Dr. Allyson Rovetto, Pediatrician, and the school nurse supervisor direct the school health program.

School nursing is a specialized practice of professional nursing that advances the well-being, academic success, and life-long achievement and health of students. To that end, school nurses facilitate positive student responses to normal development; promote health and safety, including a healthy environment; intervene with actual and potential health problems; provide case management services; and actively collaborate with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self-management, self advocacy, and learning. (NASN, 2010)

Dr. Rovetto's Letter to Parents   

Dear Parent or Guardian: 
 

Here is some medical information that you may find useful throughout the school year. 

Following the CDC and local health departments guidelines, we ask you to keep your child home if they are sick or not feeling well. It is recommended that you check your child’s temperature if they are not feeling well. If your child has a fever >100.0 or other signs of being ill, please keep your child home. If your child has been sent home with symptoms of a possible communicable illness (one that can spread to others) follow the CDC guidelines and keep your child home until their symptoms are improved and they are fever free for 24 hours.

https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/guidance/?CDC_AAref_Val=https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/guidance/respiratory-virus-guidance.html

Students need to be fever free (less than 100 degrees) for 24 hours before returning to school for any illness. Communicable illness exclusions are specific to the disease or illness. The school nurse will address specific illness exclusion time with you.

A child with a rash should be kept at home until a doctor determines the cause. A note to return is required.  A sore throat, particularly with an elevated temperature, requires medical attention and a note to return to school.

Any type of contagious disease(examples: measles, chicken pox, strep throat and conjunctivitis (eye infections)) must be reported to the school nurse and your child must be dismissed and require a note to return to school by the treating physician. If they are prescribed an antibiotic, they need to stay home for a minimum of 24 hours, symptoms must be resolving and they need to be fever free for 24 hours before returning to school.

Students being excused for an illness by the nurse must be picked up by a parent appointed responsible adult. They may not remain in school for the remainder of the day nor may they ride the school bus home.

Head lice (pediculosis) requires prompt and thorough treatment.  A child who persistently scratches his/her head should be inspected for evidence of head lice.Small white eggs (nits) attach to individual hairs and are quite evident at the back of the head and behind the ears.  Lice and their nits may continue to live off the body for up to 30 days and may re-infect the patient and others.  Family members should all be examined and, if infected, treated simultaneously. Children should be instructed not to exchange combs, hair brushes, and hats as lice are easily spread by these personal items.  

The school nurse should be informed when head lice are found in a child’s head.  The child will be sent home for treatment of lice and may return the next day once the nits are removed from the child’s head. Children may not return to school until the school nurse has examined their head before they enter the classroom.  

Prescription and non-prescription medications, creams and lotions, and medicated cough drops or throat lozenges can only be given to a student by the principal, teacher, or nurse. The child’s doctor and parent must complete a form available at the school before medication can be given.  The medication should be delivered to the nurse or principal, by the parent/guardian in the original pharmacist’s container properly labeled or in the original package.

A physical examination is required before entering kindergarten.  To be accepted, the physical examination must have been obtained after September 1 of the previous year.  Physicals are required in grades 6 and 10.  Physicals are accepted after July 1st through June 30th of the student’s 6th and 10th grade year.

Any change in a pupil’s health status should be reported to the school nurse.  Change of telephone number, address, work number, emergency number, or doctor should also be reported.   

Dr. Allyson Rovetto

Allyson Rovetto M.D.    

District Medical Advisor

revised 5/25

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