Health Services

Please notify your school nurse if your student has been diagnosed with diabetes. The school nurse will work with the student, parent, physician, and teachers to develop an individualized health plan that includes steps to follow in an emergency. Parents/guardians are responsible for providing all diabetic supplies. 

Occasionally, we see an increase in the number of students with head lice after we have had a break from school. (i.e. fall, winter, spring break and summer).

Turner Public Schools follows the guidance of KDHE, and the Kansas Classroom Handbook of Communicable Diseases. Kansas regulations do not require individuals with head lice or nits to be excluded from school or child care facilities. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the National Association of School Nurses advocate that children should not be excluded from school for extended periods due to lice or nits.

What happens when a student has lice at school?

• When a teacher notices that a student has live bugs or the student is scratching their head, neck or ears, they can send the student to the school nurse to check the student for lice.
• If the nurse finds live lice on the student, the nurse will contact parents by phone to let them know.  The student will go home for treatment.
• We do not perform mass or classroom head lice screenings.
• Head Lice notices are not sent home each time a student is found to have head lice.

For more information about head lice, please visit the Head Lice National Association of School Nurses

If a student becomes ill at school, they must come to the nurse.  A parent/guardian must be contacted before students can leave the building. It is important to keep phone numbers updated so you may be reached in the event of an emergency.

Below are our illness guidelines:

• Fever of 100.0 or Higher: Send home and not to return to school unless fever free for 24 hours without the use of fever reducing medication.
• Vomiting and/or Diarrhea: Send home and not to return unless free of symptoms for 24 hours.
• Strep Throat: Must be on antibiotics for 24 hours before returning to school
• Hand/Foot/Mouth disease or Impetigo: May return once fever free for 24 hours and blisters are dried up or per doctor’s note.
• Pink Eye: Student will be sent home for signs of pink eye. May return once on antibiotic eye drops for 24 hours.

• RSV: May return once fever free for 24 hours or per doctor’s note.

• Influenza: Remain out of school for 5 days following the onset of symptoms or positive test/diagnosis if they are asymptomatic.

If in doubt about sending your child to school, contact the school nurse or your child's doctor. 

Students up to the age of nine are required to have a physical on file at the school. If a student has transferred schools within the state of Kansas, the nurse is not required to ask for a physical. If the student has transferred schools from another state, parent/guardian is required to provide a physical. If the student is transferring from another country, no matter the age, parent/guardian is required to provide a physical. Parents have up to 90 days from the student’s first day of enrollment to provide physical before exclusion from school.  

All children entering a Kansas school for the first time must present a Kansas Certificate of immunization showing they have received proper immunization for polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, rubella (measles) and mumps. Immunizations and/or Health Assessments (physicals) may be obtained through child’s family physician or from Wyandotte County Health Department.  Students who have not received adequate immunizations according to Kansas Law will be prohibited from attending school.

Students enrolling from out of the country will not be allowed to enroll until they present a copy of their immunizations.

Students transferring to the school district from another school district in Kansas may be allowed to enroll and attend classes; however, record of evidence of immunizations must be received within 90 calendar days of the student’s enrollment date.  Students who have not received adequate immunizations within 90 calendar days will be prohibited from attending school.

Parents or guardians of existing students who do not meet these immunization requirements will be notified at the time of enrollment. Students who have not received adequate immunizations within 90 calendar days will be prohibited from attending school.

Prescription Medication

All student prescription medication must be registered with the nurse. It must come in the original bottle with the child’s name, dosage, and frequency on the bottle. A permission slip must be signed by a parent/guardian and the prescribing doctor. These forms must be filled out each school year or if prescription changes.

Non-Prescription Medications

Over the counter medicine brought without a prescription must be registered with the nurse. A permission slip must be signed by a parent/guardian. Medication must be in its original container. No medicine sent in a plastic bag or other container will be accepted.

All medicine sent to school must be kept in the nurse’s office. The ONLY exception is for inhalers when a doctor’s note is on file stating that the student must carry it throughout the day.

All medicine must be dropped off and picked up by a parent or guardian. Students may not possess prescription medicine at school (See Policy JDDA). The only exception is inhalers. All medicine not picked up by the last day of the school year will be discarded. 

If any student is transferring schools within the Turner School District, the Parent must pick up and transfer the medication themselves. The school nurse is not to transfer medication.