School Nurse

• A Message from the School Nurse
• Seasonal Medical Alert

A Message from the School Nurse Meg Belding, RN

The school nurse helps maintain and promote the health and environment of students and staff. The nurse coordinates an annual flu clinic, provides an allergy protocol and informational seminars.

The nurse maintains individual health and immunization records. The nurse performs age appropriate health screening required by state law for students such as vision, hearing, scoliosis, health, weight and blood pressure. The nurse assesses, diagnosis, implements nursing care to students.

Seasonal Medical Alert

Flu Season is Here!

The following recommendations have been received from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) as the fall and winter flu season approaches:

1. Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it. If you don't have a tissue, cough into your elbow.


2. Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hands sanitizers are also effective.


3. Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs can spread that way.


4. Stay home if you get sick. The CDC recommends that you stay home from work or school, and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them.


5. Use disinfectants on surfaces, as directed, to help prevent the spread of the influenza virus. Germs can spread when a person touches an infected surface and then touches their own eyes, mouth or nose.

Please ask your doctor about the seasonal flu vaccine and the H1N1 vaccine. The seasonal flu vaccine is available now and the H1N1 is targeted to be available by October.

MRSA Information (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus)

Many of you may have heard about the antibiotic resistant Staff Infection called MRSA. The best line of defense from catching this “bug” as well as the common cold is through good hand washing. As the old adage saying goes, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of gold.

Here are some simple suggestions to guard against MRSA …

1. Wash your hands vigorously with soap and water. It is in the friction you create by rubbing your hands, that kills the germs.


2. Wash your hands long enough to have an effect. It is recommended that you recite the alphabet while washing your hands so that you wash your hands for at least 2 minutes.


3. If you have any open cuts you must cover them with a band-aid.


4. Towel or clothes are better dried in a dryer, than hung to dry. The heat in the dryer kills many germs.

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