Health Services in our Schools

• The Health Clerk and School Registered Nurse Consultant work together as a team to manage an efficient and organized health office and keep the students in the school healthy and safe.
  • The Health Clerk is responsible for:
    • Daily health care of students, including tasks such as providing first aid and screening of ill children
    • Administering daily medication
    • Vision and hearing screenings
    • State mandated immunization compliance
    • Monitoring for communicable disease outbreaks
    • Health records maintenance.
    • The Health Clerk is present at the school every day.
• • The School Registered Nurse Consultant is licensed by the State of Colorado Department of Regulatory Affairs after graduating from an accredited nursing school with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and also holds a CO Department of Education Special Services Provider license.  The School Registered Nurse Consultant is available to the school to:
    • Consult on health emergencies or concerns
    • Develop health care plans for students with documented health concerns or daily medication
    • Obtain health histories and consult with the Special Education team for students with Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) or 504s
    • Monitor and respond to communicable disease outbreaks
    • Support immunization compliance
    • Provide health-related unit teaching
    • Plan and assist with emergency preparedness
    • Oversee all health-related activities 
    • The School Nurse Consultant is assigned to several buildings and may not be present at the school every day, but visits each school at least one time each week and is immediately available by phone at all times during the school day.
• Each school has designated “back-up’s” who have been trained/delegated to care for students when the health clerk or school nurse are not available (secretaries, office managers, administrators, teachers, paraprofessionals, etc).

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Below are links to more information about our School Health Clerks and School Registered Nurse Consultants.