School Health
The mission of the Sullivan County School Health Services Department is to enhance the learning potential of every student in the Sullivan County School System by advocating wellness, collaborate with education departments to improve and teach healthy habits and facilitate the resolution of health concerns, which create barriers to learning. Sullivan County Department of Education provides 21 part-time school nurses on each campus to ensure students have access to a medical professional.
The Definition of School Nursing: 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.
The primary goals of the school health program are to:
Facilitate access to primary health care
Assist with mandated health screening and referrals
Provide immunization monitoring
Provide a process for the identification and resolution of students health needs that affect their education
Promote prevention and early intervention
Provide acute, chronic, episodic, and emergency health care
Provide health education and health counseling
Collaborate with parents, community agencies, and the medical community
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Health Resources
School Health Services Handbook
Individual School Healthcare Plan
** Medications should only be taken at school when the student’s health requires that they be given during school hours. All over-the-counter medication must be brought to school by parent/guardian in the original, unopened container, labeled with the student’s name. All prescription medication must be in its’ original pharmacy-labeled container. Medication will not be sent home on the bus and cannot be sent to school on the bus. Parent/guardian is responsible for delivering and removing any and all medication from the school campus. No exceptions to this policy will be allowed.
NO MEDICATIONS WILL BE DISPENSED UNTIL ALL FORMS ARE ACCURATE, COMPLETE AND SIGNED.