DDESS/Fort Knox/Mudge Primary School

MEDICATION POLICY

Fort Knox Community Schools

The Fort Knox Community Schools require that all students who need medication during school hours adhere to the following:

      1.   The parent or guardian must sign the “Permission To Give Medication At School” consent form.

     2.  Medication must be brought to school by the parent or guardian in the original prescription bottle, properly labeled by a registered pharmacist to the school nurse. Children will not transport medication to or from school.

     3.  The nurse will remove the amount of medication needed for school to complete the treatment and send the original home with the parent or guardian..

     4.  For long term medication (longer than 4 weeks), the nurse should be provided with a separate prescription bottle which is labeled “For School Use” or has the initials ESBP (extra school bottle please) written on the label.

In the event that the nurse is not available to administer the medication, the school principal or his/her designee will give the medication. 

Tylenol and Calcium Carbonate (antacid the same as TUMS) are in stock in the nurse’s office and will be given if the nurse feels it is indicated and if the parent or guardian has given permission on the School Health Folder.

Bacitracin Ointment is used for cuts and scratches when the nurse feels it is indicated.  Calamine lotion is kept on hand for use on poison ive/oak.

Cough drops are not supplied by the school nurse, but if a parent wants their child to have them during the school day, they must be brought to the nurse's office with a note from the parent and dispensed from there.  Children may not carry them to school. 

THE NURSE WILL GIVE NO OTHER OVER THE COUNTER OR NONPRESCRIPTION DRUGS UNLESS ORDERED BY THE PHYSICIAN AND THE BOTTLE/BOX HAS A PRESCRIPTION LABEL ON IT.