Medications:
Students may need to take prescription and or non-prescription medications during the school hours. Medications will be held in a locked cabinet and distributed by the school nurse or medication-certified personnel in case of her absence.
Riceville School District Medication Administration Policy
Over the Counter Medications
When the prescription medication is finished, the parents will be called to obtain a refill from their pharmacy. The empty bottle will be discarded at the school after all labels are removed.
Over The Counter Medications (OTC):
Your child may receive some over-the-counter medications at school through the nurse or other med-certified personnel at their discretion. The online Over the Counter Medications form, which provides permission to administer OTC Medications to students, must be completed during online registration.
Illness:
Student Health and Illness Policy
Screenings:
Students will have 3 annual screenings: Hearing, Dental and Vision.
Hearing screenings are performed by an audiometrist from Keystone AEA annually to kindergarten, 2nd, and 7th graders in the fall by the AEA as well as for new students who have moved into the state at the elementary level (kindergarten-5th grade). Students not passing a routine hearing screening with the audiometrist will be seen for further screening/testing by an audiologist from Keystone AEA. Follow-up testing may occur periodically if previous hearing test results were not within normal limits. Parents/Guardians not wishing their child's hearing to be screened/tested should notify the school nurse/health office at the beginning of the year. Keystone AEA will directly mail results to the parent/guardian if further follow-up is needed.
Dental screens are mandated for kindergarten and freshmen. These dental screens need to be done prior to the start of school. Freshmen who do not complete a dental screening will be seen by a Dental Hygienist from the VNA who comes to RCSD to perform them.
Vision testing is done annually on the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, and any students by request. Notices will be sent home or emailed to parents of students who do not pass.
Any parent or teacher can request to have their child screened at any time.
Human Growth and Development:
The school district provides students with instruction in human growth and development. Parents may review the human growth and development curriculum prior to its use and have their child excused from human growth and development instruction. Parents should contact the School Nurse (641-985-2288) if they wish to review the curriculum or to excuse their child from human growth and development instruction.
Health Education (School Board Policy – 603.8A)
Students in grade levels one through twelve shall receive, as part of their health education, instruction about personal health, food and nutrition, environmental health, safety and survival skills, consumer health, family life, substance use and non-use, including the effects of alcohol, tobacco, drugs and poisons on the human body, emotional and social health, health resources, prevention and control of disease, including characteristics of communicable disease. Beginning no later than in grade seven, characteristics of communicable disease shall include information about sexually transmitted diseases. Parents who object to health education instruction in human growth and development may file a written request that the pupil be excused from the instruction. The written request shall include a proposed alternative activity or study acceptable to the superintendent. The superintendent shall have the final authority to determine the alternate activity or study.
