LOCATION & HOURS
Health Office
(located in the Elementary)
Meghan Carlson, Licensed School Nurse
7:30 AM-3:30 PM Monday-Friday
Office: 386-6044
FAX: 218-386-1909
Email: meghan_carlson@warroadschools.org
Patty Heppner, Health Assistant
7:45 AM-3:15 PM
Monday-Friday
Office: 386-6107
Email: patty_heppner@warroadschools.org
HEALTH SERVICES
Warroad Schools Health Services, along with all the school staff, strive to provide a safe and healthy work and learning environment for all employees and students. We recognize the relationship between students' heath status and their ability to learn. The Health Services staff is committed to providing the best health services possible to the students at all levels. Their missions is to promote student health for student success.
WHEN YOUR CHILD IS SICK
Illness and Attendance
Please keep your child home if they have any of the following symptoms:
Vomiting within the last 24 hours
Diarrhea within the last 24 hours
Fever of 100 degree Fahrenheit or higher in the last 24 hours
Rash of unknown origin
Students may not return to school until they are free from the above systems (vomiting, diarrhea, fever) for 24 hours, without fever reducing medications. Please report to your school that your child is staying home with the name of their teacher and grade and the reason for the absence.
OUR GOALS
To provide a safe environment for all students and staff
To provide basic screenings
To establish communicable disease prevention and control procedures
To establish emergency care procedures
To monitor and assist students with chronic health conditions
To work together with families and medical providers to provide the best possible care for students while attending school
LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR
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, I, as school nurse, facilitates positive student responses to normal development; promotes health and safety including a healthy environment; intervenes with actual and potential health problems; provides case management services; and actively collaborates with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self-management, self advocacy, and learning.