Health Guidelines

You don’t want your child to miss school, but neither do you want to send a sick child to school. When should your child stay home? Here are a few guidelines we ask you to follow:

FEVER

Fever is an important symptom; when it occurs along with sore throat, ear ache, nausea, listlessness, or rash, your child may be very contagious. Please keep a child home during the course of a fever and for an additional 24 hours after the fever has passed.

LICE

Once lice are brought into a home or school, they can quickly produce an epidemic of itching and scratching. You will be given directions as to the most effective way to disinfect your child. Please keep the child home for 48 hours after treatment has started.

DIARRHEA AND VOMITING

Diarrhea and vomiting make a child very uncomfortable, and being near a bathroom becomes top priority. If your child has repeated episodes of diarrhea and/or vomiting with or without a fever, please keep your child out of school.

RASH

Rashes are a body’s reaction to an allergen or a viral infection. Please keep your child home until a doctor determines the cause of the rash and whether or not the child is still contagious and requires monitoring.

WHEN YOUR CHILD NEEDS TO TAKE MEDICATION DURING SCHOOL HOURS

Some students may need to take medication during school. Here are our procedures for administering medication during the school day:

  • Medications from home must be sent directly to the school nurse along with a prescription.
  • Please call the nurse to relay the medication and dosage the doctor prescribed your child.
  • Students are to come to the clinic to be administered their medications at their prescribed time.
  • If the nurse is absent, all medications should be sent to the supervisor or to the administration and the medication will be dispensed according to the prescription.
  • STUDENTS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO KEEP THEIR MEDICATION IN THEIR BACKPACKS.
  • STUDENTS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TAKE ANY MEDICATION ON THEIR OWN.
  • Should your child have to go to the clinic, the nurse will contact you via eschool connect and/or a phone call depending on the severity of the injury. Please follow up with your child to see how he or she is feeling.

WHEN SCHOOL OR SCHOOL NURSE MAKE A CALL TO SEND A CHILD HOME PARENTS SHOULD COME TO SCHOOL WITHIN 40 MINUTES.

HOW TO CONTACT THE SCHOOL NURSE?

To contact the nurse directly, please call:

+961 5 380 155

+961 5 380 369

WHEN YOUR CHILD HAS A CRITICAL CASE?

Should your child have a critical medical case, the nurse will need to be in constant contact with you. As a result, these parents will be provided the nurse’s personal cell number. All other parents are asked to call the school. CLASSROOM VISITS The nurse will conduct 15-minute classroom visits during every Monday. (Personal hygiene; and a discreet individual student inspection for lice).