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Health Services
Health Services
Scituate Public Schools Health Services aims to maintain and advance student health, including physical and emotional well-being, to support academic success and promote lifelong wellness. Health Services are supported by a professional, credentialed, and highly qualified nursing staff.
Forms
Please bring the following completed forms to your school nurse to address your child’s needs.
- Annual Student Health and Medication Consent Form
- Parental Guardian Consent for Administration of Prescription Medication
- Provider Medication Order
Contact
- Kellie Bell, MSN, RN, NCSN, CPHQ, Department Chair, Nursing & Health Services, 781-545-8760 ext. 21115
Scituate Public Schools Health Self-Assessment
Do you/your child have any of the following symptoms?
- Fever (100F or higher), chills, shaking chills
- Cough (not due to other known causes, such as a chronic cough)
- Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
- New loss of taste or smell
- Muscle aches or body aches
- Sore throat (when in combination with other symptoms)
- Headache (when in combination with other symptoms)
- Nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea
- Fatigue (when in combination with other symptoms)
- Nasal congestion or runny nose (not due to other known causes, such as allergies, and when in combination with other symptoms)
- Have you/your child been told by a public health official to isolate or quarantine?
If your answer to either of the questions above is ‘yes,’ stay home and do not come to school.
- Notify the school nurse, building principal, or principal’s designee
- Staff should also follow standard procedures for reporting an absence
- If symptomatic, contact your healthcare provider for assessment and testing. As always, if you are experiencing a medical emergency, call 911.
Guidance
Department of Public Health, Executive Office of Health and Human Services
Contact
- Kellie Bell, Department Chair, Nursing & Health Services, 781-545-8760 ext. 21115
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sometimes, caregivers find it difficult to decide whether to send children to school when they wake up with symptoms of illness or complaints of not feeling well. Here are general guidelines for keeping your child home or arranging an appointment with your healthcare provider.
The following are situations that warrant watching, keeping your student home, and/or calling your healthcare provider:
- Vomiting and or diarrhea
- Fever greater than 100.0° orally, including a fever that requires control with medication such as Tylenol or Advil
- A cough that makes a child feel uncomfortable or disrupts their learning
- A severe sore throat, along with fever and feeling ill for more than 48 hours
- Honey-crusted sores around the nose or mouth; an unidentified rash OR a significant rash accompanied by other symptoms of illness such as fever
- Red, runny eyes that distract the child from learning
- A large amount of discolored nasal discharge, especially if accompanied by facial pain, fever, or headache
- Severe ear pain or drainage from the ear
- Headache, especially if accompanied by fever
- Any condition that you think may be serious or contagious to others.
Please keep your child home for 24 hours after experiencing a fever, vomiting, diarrhea, or other contagious illnesses, such as strep throat, to avoid infecting others.
Students must be fever-free for 24 hours, without using any fever-reducing medications such as Tylenol or Advil.
Remember, whenever you keep your child home from school, please contact your child’s school before the start of the school day to notify them of their absence. If your child has a contagious illness, please reach out to your school nurse so we can monitor the health of our school community.