Welcome

Welcome to the Churchill County School District - Student Health Services Home Page. This site has been designed to provide important information regarding Student Health Services and our policies, programs, people, and services. The quality of learning for each child is directly related to his or her physical, mental, emotional, and social levels of health. The professional school nurse is part of the health services program that assures a high level of physical, mental, and emotional well being for each student. Some services provided by the school nurse include:

  • Student health appraisal and assessment (including handicapped students)
  • Management of student health problems (including written protocols)
  • Screening programs (vision, hearing, scoliosis, dental)
  • Parent-teacher-counselor conferences
  • Medical referrals (dental, vision, hearing, and medical)
  • Health counseling
  • Communicable disease control
  • Health education (smoking, dental, nutrition, etc.)
  • School hygiene and safety appraisal
  • Child abuse assessment and referral
  • School staff in-health-related-service on health related topics
  • Health consultation
  • Enforcement of Health Services policies
  • Immunization auditing

In order for your child to be safe and healthy in school, health problems, including, but not limited to the following, must be brought to the attention of the school nurse:

  • Allergies
  • Asthma
  • Blood Disorders
  • Cancer
  • Depression
  • Diabetes
  • Eating Disorders
  • Hearing Aides
  • Kidney Problems
  • Migraines
  • New Glasses/contacts
  • Seizures
  • Ulcers
Our School Nurses
Too Sick for School?

Determining whether or not to send your child to school when they may be sick can be difficult. The following will help you to determine if you should keep you child at home:

  1. If a rash is present that has not been evaluated by a physician.
  2. If your child's oral temperature exceeds 100 degrees Fahrenheit, or 1 or 2 degrees above the child's normal temperature. A child with such a fever should remain home for 24 hours after the temperature returns to normal.
  3. If your child vomits and continues to experience nausea and/or vomiting.
  4. If your child complains of severe, persistent pain, the symptoms should be referred to a physician for evaluation.
  5. If your child shows signs of upper respiratory infection (cold symptoms) serious enough to interfere with the child's ability to learn.
  6. If there are signs of conjunctivitis ("pink eye") with matter coming from one or both eyes, itching, or crusts on eyelids; the child should be evaluated by a physician.
  7. If there are open sores that have not been evaluated by a physician.
  8. If there are signs of infestation with lice (nits in the hair, itchy scalp), the child should be evaluated for treatment with a pediculocide.