Health Suite Management

  • URGENT AND EMERGENT ISSUES WILL ALWAYS BE ADDRESSED IMMEDIATELY BY THE NURSE OR HEALTH ASSISTANT (or assigned back-up staff when the nurse is not present)
  • Management of the Health Suite focuses on prioritizing (‘triaging’) acute, urgent health needs, ensuring all health needs are addressed in a timely manner, and supporting students so that they may be in optimal condition to learn and participate. The School Health Services team seeks to promote wellness, self-advocacy, self-care of minor issues, and long-term safe and healthy attitudes and actions of all students and staff.
  • Access to Health Suite:
    • For urgent or emergent needs, such as acute injury, acute allergic reaction, asthma attack/difficulty breathing, diabetic hi/low blood sugar, etc.:
      • No pass or permission is needed to access the health suite
      • Students should be accompanied to the health suite, or the Nurse should be called to the student’s location, as appropriate
      • Urgent health issues will be assessed immediately by the School Nurse, or, if the Nurse is not available, by the Emergency Back-up assigned staff
      • If a student has an urgent health concern and the health suite is closed/locked, they should immediately report to the main office to request assistance. (Office staff will inform Nurse/Emergency back-up immediately)
    • For all other health issues or concerns, students should first report to their class/assigned location and request a pass to visit the nurse.
      • A written pass, signed by the student’s teacher, is required to access Nurse/health suite for non-urgent needs
      • A phone call or other communication with the Nurse/health suite is requested prior to sending a student with a non-urgent need
      • Communication with Nurse/Health Suite ensures availability, limits time missed from class, identifies staff person responsible for student/aware of student’s location, and promotes the health and safety of all students
    • Health Suite Hours:
      • Set annually to best accommodate students’ scheduled needs, including daily medications and procedures
      • Scheduled in collaboration with School Administration, updated as needed, and shared with staff and students.
      • Health Suite ‘Restricted’ hours indicate that the Nurse is not available to see students for non-urgent issues (restricted time periods will never exceed 30 mins). However, the health suite is always open to urgent & emergent needs. (Emergency back-up trained staff will be available and on-call to address urgent needs during any period of time the Nurse is not available.