Our goal is to make this policy change as easy as possible for parents while we work to ensure our students’ safety. Compliance with this policy change can happen in a number of ways:

• Securing a written order from the doctor at the time of the appointment or yearly physical appointment for a medication taken as needed throughout the year,
• Requesting the doctor to fax a written prescription order to the school nurse,
• Administering the medicine before or after school.
• You may administer medication to your student at school.

Please remember that your consent for some "over-the-counter" medications is given via your signature on the Annual Emergency/Medical Update Card, issued to you every June. These medications include:

• Acetaminophen (generic Tylenol),
• Ibuprofen (generic Advil or Motrin),
• Calcium Antacid (generic TUMS),
• For Emergency Only:

1.  Diphenhydramine HCl (generic Benadryl),

2.   Epinephrine Auto-Injector ,"EpiPen"

These medications will not need an additional doctor’s written order. If you have not returned your child’s Emergency/Medical Update Card, please do so as soon as possible.

We thank you in advance for your support in keeping our students safe and keeping us in compliance with our Nursing Law. The new form can be found in your elementary handbook in the fall, and right here online via the "Forms" link on the left.