Get Medication Order - Putnam County Schools

The school nurse should lead in the development, implementation, and evaluation of medication administration policies and procedures at the school or district level.

1) The school nurse, principal, teachers, or other school personnel are not allowed to administer anything that is considered a medication, whether prescription or over-the-counter, without a doctor's order.

Medication Delegation Role and Responsibility of the Teacher. The teacher will, under the direction of the school nurse: Administer medication to student or remind the student to take their own medication for whom they have been trained.

Middle and High School students may carry and self-administer non-prescription medications (Tylenol, Advil, Ibuprofen, etc.) if the student's parent or guardian has granted consent and authorization in writing and the medications are in the original container.

Under normal circumstances, school nurses and other school personnel aren't allowed to give your child any medicine (prescription or over-the-counter) without your explicit permission.

The California Education Code allows a school district to assist with the administration of medication to any child required to take medication during the school day if that medication has been prescribed by a doctor or surgeon.

Posted by: If your child had a temperature greater than 100 degrees F., you should not send your child to school. Children may return to school when his/her temperature is below 100 degrees without the aid of Tylenol or any other fever-reducing medication for 24 hours.

No child under 16 should be given prescription or non-prescription medicines without their parents/carers written consent. Staff should obtain written parental/carer consent for each medicine that is to be administered in school.