2023-2024 Rogers ISD Health Center Instructions

•  Please fill out the RISD Health Information card for each child with current phone numbers, student health condition, and medications.
• Please submit an updated shot record to the school nurse anytime your child receives a vaccination. It is state statute that if your child does not have all necessary immunizations, your child will not be allowed to attend school until proof of immunization is provided. 
• No medication (over the counter) will be provided by the school district. You can send an over the counter medication for your child to take during school hours. Please fill out a Request for Administration of Over the Counter Medications Form (available online or upon request from the school nurse).
• If your child needs to take a daily prescription drug during school hours, you must submit the medication in its original container and submit a Physician’s Request for Administration of Prescription Medication Form. Both parent and physician must sign the form (available online or upon request from the school nurse).
• Please do not send your child to school if he/she is running a fever of 100 or greater. Your child may return to school when he/she is free of fever for 24 hours without the help of fever reducing medications.
• Please do not send your child to school if he/she is vomiting or has diarrhea. Your child may return to school when he/she is no longer vomiting and/or has diarrhea for 24 hours. 
• If your child has pink eye(conjunctivitis), student may return to school once they have been on antibiotics for 24 hours.
• If your child has head lice, please notify the school nurse and begin treatment. Student may return to school once treatment has begun and student has shown improvement. 

Lorie VanFosson, RN
School Nurse
254-642-7074 (Elementary school)
254-642-3145 (fax)

Charli Gick, LVN
School Nurse
254-642-7075 (Middle / High school)