School Nurse Anna Hensler
619 605-2000 x3050
[email protected]
Nurse Hensler works at EBS on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Guidelines for Keeping Students at Home
In order to provide a healthy school environment for all students and staff, the following guidelines have been prepared to assist you in decisions relating to your student's health and school attendance. These are general guidelines. School nurses may use clinical judgment to decide whether or not to exclude a student.
❖If your student is not feeling well and you are uncertain about sending them to school on any given day, it is best to keep your student home and observe them for worsening symptoms.
❖ COVID-19 illness: If your student has any COVID-19 symptoms that cannot be attributed to a chronic condition, please take a COVID-19 test.
Please do not send a student to school with the following symptoms:
Cold / Flu : If they have an excessive runny nose, excessive coughing, difficulty breathing, looks/acts very ill.
Cold Sores: If they drool or place toys in their mouths when they have cold sores.
COVID-19 Positive: Please notify the school health office if your student tests Covid-19 positive. Stay home when symptoms appear. May return to school when they are fever-free for 24 hours without using fever-reducing medication AND other non-fever symptoms are mild and improving. Should wear a mask through day 10.
Cough / Shortness of Breath / Difficulty Breathing: If there is labored breathing (heaving of chest muscles with each breath), fast breathing at rest, blue color to skin, or wheezing (if never previously evaluated and treated). Student may come to school if symptoms are part of a diagnosed underlying condition.
Diarrhea: If they have diarrhea, student may return to school once diarrhea free for 24 hours.
Eye Infection: If their eyes are red with drainage or watering of the eyes.
Fever / Chills: If they have temperatures at or above 100.0°F. Student may return to school when they have been fever-free (<100.0°F) without fever-reducing medication for at least 24 hours. If you do not have a thermometer, please do not send your student if they have chills.
(24 hours can not start until all medication is out of your child’s system.)
Headache: If severe headache with vomiting or stiff neck. Please contact your child’s primary care physician for further evaluation.
Rash that is Undiagnosed: Student must have the rash diagnosed by a health professional. If student has been diagnosed with impetigo, scabies, or ringworm, they may return to school once treatment is started.
Sore Throat: If they cannot swallow, have excessive drooling, difficulty breathing, fever or behavior change.
Stomachache: If severe pain causes doubling over, crying, screaming, abdominal injury, diarrhea, vomiting, the student looks and acts ill.
Vomiting / Nausea: If they have vomited, student may return to school once vomit free for at least 24 hours. Antibiotics: Students: who take antibiotics for impetigo, strep throat, and several other bacterial infections should be on them for a full 24 hours 5 days for (Pertussis/Whooping Cough) before going back to school. If you are not sure, ask your school nurse of your child’s primary care provider.
Contact the health office if you have any questions or test positive for Covid.