Health Service guidelines outlined in the handbook:
- Children are expected to report injuries or illnesses to their teacher.
- Serious injuries and illnesses must be reported to the office immediately.
- School personnel will make the child as comfortable as possible and will determine what first aid, if any, is to be administered.
- A child vomiting accompanied by other flu-like symptoms (fever, chills, nausea, and / or diarrhea) will be sent home. 100.5° is the baseline to determine if a student has a fever.
- Students will be sent home if their temperature is 100.5° or higher.
- It is recommended they be fever free without medication 24 hours before returning to school.
- In the event neither parent nor alternate is available, the school health personnel will determine whether medical examination is needed.
- If this determination is affirmative, school personnel will arrange to have the child transported to the medical facility as designated in the Skyward account.
- School personnel will use their best judgment in protecting the child’s health and well-being.
- This includes transporting by ambulance, if needed.
- First aid services are available in the health office.
- Students must secure a pass from teachers to go to the first aid office.
- Absence from class without such permission will be unexcused.
- The Permission for Emergency Care must be completed online by parents and will be utilized in handling student injuries or illnesses.
- Parents are responsible to report changes to the office.
- Communicable diseases - any student suspected of carrying a communicable disease may be excluded from school and advised to seek medical attention.
- The following diseases are communicable and cause for exclusion from school (other diseases may be added to this list by the County Health Department): measles, influenza, staph infection, impetigo, mumps, ringworm, infectious hepatitis, rubella, chicken pox, scarlet fever, strep, throat, pink eye, scabies, whooping cough, and head lice.
- Covid and other respiratory diseases:
- Fever free (if they had one) 24 hours without the use of medication and symptoms greatly improving.
- They are no longer required to follow a quarantine guideline.
Contact information:
Gina Martinovich RN
District Nurse
martigin@pittsville.k12.wi.us
715-884-5228
Mary Lou Masanz
Health Coordinator
masanmar@pittsville.k12.wi.us
715-884-2518
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