Clinic

SHS General Information

The Student Health Services (SHS) Team delivers health services and programs through a team approach utilizing the Registered Nurses and Clinic Assistants in the clinics and School-Based Health Centers. Our Registered Nurses and Clinic Assistants work together to provide care for students and to serve as a resource for all health-related issues. SHS believes optimal learning requires good health. Research shows there is a clear connection between school nursing services and student academic success.

Healthy Children…Learn Better!

Health Services Information

The school should be informed if your child has a medical condition or chronic illness, requires assistance with medication, or for any medical procedure or treatment.

When possible, medication should be taken at home, including all non-essential medications such as vitamins, herbals, essential oils, and narcotic pain medications. However, if medication must be taken at school, on a field trip or during a “before or after” school chaperoned activity, parents must provide all medications (prescribed and over-the counter) in accordance with Fulton County Schools Medication Administration Policy and Guidelines.

The parent/legal guardian must complete an authorization and instruction form entitled “AUTHORIZATION TO GIVE MEDICATION AT SCHOOL SHS-1 Form”. For all prescription medications, a healthcare provider must also sign the form. The school cannot give medications without the authorization form. The same form is used for prescription and non-prescription medications. Medication Authorization Forms are valid for one/current school year. A separate form MUST be used for each medication.

If your child has a medical condition such as asthma, a severe allergy or another health-related condition that requires self-administration of medication, or needs to carry an emergency medication (Epipen, Diastat, Inhaler, Glucagon, etc.), or has an approved legitimate reason to carry a medication on his/her person, you must complete and submit to the school clinic an "Authorization for Students to Carry Medication SHS-2 Form". This form must be signed by the healthcare provider, parent and student.

Over-the-Counter (OTC) medications have different requirements. Refer to the annual Health Services Information Letter.

It is the parent or legal guardian’s responsibility to keep the student’s health and contact information (telephone numbers, address, etc.) updated.

By working together, we can strive to ensure the health and well-being of every student so that he/she can benefit from the education program.

Student Health Services Polices and Procedures

As the Dunwoody Springs staff works with you this year, we need your assistance and cooperation in preparing for the possibility that your child might need to take medication, need assistance with a medical condition or procedure, become ill, or have an accident during school hours. Click on the link at the bottom of this page to review a letter from the Fulton County Student Health Services regarding policies and procedures.

Emergency Information

Our clinic is not staffed or equipped for serious injury or illness. It is essential that student records be kept up to date. When a student requires more than first aid, we will contact you by using the contact information provided on the student “clinic cards.”

Medications

If possible, medications should be taken at home rather than at school. However, if medications must be taken at school please complete the “Authorization to Give Medication at School” form, available at school or click on the link at the bottom of this page.

The medicine, in the original container along with the instruction and authorization form, must be taken to the school clinic for storage. If possible, the parent should bring the medication to school; however, if this is not possible, your child should be instructed to take the medications and instructions directly to the clinic upon arrival to school.

Please help us keep our students safe! Under no circumstances should medication, prescription or non-prescription (including over-the-counter medications such as ibuprofen or Tylenol), be kept by a student.

Student Illness

Sick students who are contagious and/or have a fever greater than 100.4 must not be sent to school.

Please help us guard against the spread of germs by encouraging your child to thoroughly wash his/her hands, to properly dispose of tissues, and to stay at home until they are "fever-free" for 24 hours.

In the event that a student becomes ill in the morning before leaving for school, parents should make appropriate arrangements for care of the student at home rather than sending a sick child to school. A parent should wait until all possibility of contagion has passed before sending a recovering student back to school.

A child must be fever-free 24 hours prior to returning to school.

For example, if your child has a fever at 10:00 AM on Monday but is fever-free by 12:30 PM that same day, your child may return to school on Tuesday AFTER 12:30. In this example, it would be strongly recommended to send your child back to school on Wednesday.

If your parent is notified by school personnel that his/her child is sick, the parent must make arrangements for the child to be taken home or to another appropriate location.