Medical Policy - Oswestry School

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The boarding house staff are responsible for the boarders out of school hours when the Medical Coordinator is not available. The school nurses can be contacted at home for advice. Regular dental checks should be carried out during the holidays with the family dentist. The school can only deal with emergencies. Medical Coordinator or Boarding staff will be advised of most medical problems and will then advise parents as appropriate. See section on confidentiality below. In the boarding houses all medicines should be kept in a locked cupboard and administered by the house staff under a homely remedies protocol. Gap students will be registered with the surgery. They will be asked to bring information on any illnesses and vaccination details with them when they join the school. Medical information is shared between the Prep school and boarding house for Prep boarders. Day Pupils The Medical Coordinator will care for any sick pupils or any emergency. Parents will be contacted if they deem this necessary. Day pupils can only return home once their parents have been contacted. At the Prep school the secretary will care for any sick or injured pupils and parents will be contacted if this is deemed necessary. The Community First Responder can give emergency care. More serious injuries will be taken to casualty, parents will be contacted immediately to take them, but if more serious the pupil will be accompanied by a member of staff to meet the parents at casualty. Personal medications It is the schools policy that asthmatics and anaphylactics should carry their own medication. At the Prep School all medication is kept in the school office or staffroom fridge. The inhalers are taken with the children should they go off site. Other prescribed medications should be left with the Medical Coordinator or school secretary (Prep school) with an accompanying letter stating its name, use, dosage and times to be administered. The container should be labelled with the pharmacist’s label. If a nonprescription medicine, it should be labelled with the name of the medication, the date and the child's name. All medicines kept at school are kept in a locked cupboard in the treatment room at the Main School and in the school office at the Prep school site. Records Records are kept of any medication or treatment administered to a pupil or member of staff, whilst under the care of the school. The Headmaster is aware of the system. Records are kept of all major accidents in the accident book at both sites. Major and minor accidents and illnesses are recorded in the day book with the medication administration. The school has written protocols for the administration of medication and policies for asthma, diabetes, epilepsy and anaphylaxis. Consent form for medication is held at Prep School.
Health checks and vaccinations. On admission boarders' parents are asked to complete a questionnaire about the pupils past medical history. They are asked to sign to give consent for investigations and treatment to be carried out at the doctor's discretion. Day pupils' parents also are asked to agree to their child being treated by a School Nurse or her deputy during her absence. Boarders have a health check on admission to the school. In October the boarders are offered an annual flu vaccination that is also made available to the staff. Routine travel vaccinations, diphtheria, tetanus and polio vaccines are also offered by the school. Confidentiality The school Medical Coordinator and Senior Boarding Staff have a divided loyalty, firstly to the pupils as patients and secondly to the school. Occasionally conflicts may occur between maintaining confidentiality and the need for communication of information to those caring for the pupils. Pupils should be aware that they can discuss any matter with the Medical Coordinator or School Nurse in complete confidence. Any breach of that confidence would be discussed with the pupil first and only if it was thought that the health of other pupils in the school was at risk, or that it was in the pupils own interest to share the information. Teachers’ responsibilities Teachers should know of pupils with disabilities that might lead to their being placed at risk in certain activities. E.g. defects of vision or hearing, epileptics, diabetics, significant allergies, e.g. Nut allergy. This information is available either in the pupil files or on the PASS database which is maintained by the Database Manager. Parents are made aware that details from the medical questionnaire will be passed on to teaching staff on a need to know basis. Emergency procedures In the case of a severe accident or incident at the Senior School and Bellan the Community First Responder should be called, the situation will be assessed and an ambulance called from there. The casualty will be accompanied to hospital by the Medical Coordinator/staff member or parent if arrived already. At the Prep School a first aider would be called, the situation assessed and an ambulance called, they would be accompanied by a member of staff. In all cases parents would be contacted as soon as possible. Infection Control All trained staff are familiar with normal precautions for avoiding infection. Disposable gloves are available and care is taken when dealing with spillage’s of blood and body fluids. In line with the guidance from HPA pupils suffering from diahorrea will be asked not to return to school until 48 hours from the last episode of diahorrea. HIV and AIDS The number of people in the school who will be made aware of a pupil who is infected with HIV will be rigorously confined to those who need to know in order to ensure proper care of the child and other pupils. The School follows the policy as explained in DfEE document HIV and AIDS A guide for the education service – facts for teachers, lecturers and youth workers.
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