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Illness or Accident at School
Injury/Illness
All
injured/ill students will be sent to the Health Office. Students stung
by a bee must come to the Health Office. Unless it is an emergency,
students must come with a pass from their teacher. In case of a serious
accident or injury, emergency services will be called to administer
medical aid and parents will be notified. A district nurse is at
Altimira part-time to supervise hearing and vision tests, screen for
scoliosis, maintain records, and other matters. There is a Health
Technician at Altimira and the district nurse is on-call at all times.
If your child has any special medical situation, it is imperative that
you notify the office and include it on the emergency card.
Students who cannot participate in P.E. due to illness or injury must present a note from the parent to their P.E. teacher. Exemptions for more than three days require a doctor's note. Students exempt from P.E. study in the library for that period of time.
Emergency Cards
In cases of emergency, the school needs to contact parents. Please notify the school secretary of any changes in your address, your home phone number or your business phone number. Please fill out the Emergency Information Card with phone numbers where you or a friend/family member can be reached. Without an accurate address you will not receive communication mailed home, including your child's report card.
In case of an accident requiring the services of a doctor, we request that parents keep us informed of any changes of address or phone numbers. We will make every effort to contact a parent before the child is taken to a doctor. If it is necessary for a student to go home because of illness, contagious health problem, or injury, the parent or person listed on the emergency card (if the parent cannot be contacted) will be requested to pick the child up in the office. Please remember that we cannot keep a seriously ill child at school. In the event of a serious illness or accident, Grant School personnel will:
- Contact parents when possible.
- Contact other authorized persons listed on the child's emergency card, if possible.
- Contact child's physician if above persons cannot be reached.
- In extreme emergencies, an ambulance will be called, and the child will be taken directly to the hospital. The parents will be contacted.
- We will keep an Authorization to Consent to Treatment of a Minor signed by you at the school. This allows the hospital to treat life threatening and non-life threatening conditions, i.e., x-rays, sutures, etc.
As you can see, it is ESSENTIAL that contact numbers be CURRENT so parents or their designated substitute can be contacted immediately for decisions regarding illness or injury. If parents have special requests for the emergency plan for their child, they should contact the school office.
