IISD HEALTH SERVICE MEDICATION POLICY

All medications shall be brought to the clinic or office area where they shall be kept in a locked container or cabinet.  Students shall not possess any form of medication while at school other than to transport such to the designated location for proper storage.  Medication will be refrigerated only if such storage instruction is printed on the label.  At the end of the school year all medication left at school shall be returned to the parent or destroyed

PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION

Designated employees of the District may administer medication to a student provided:

1.   The district has received a written request to administer the medication from a parent, legal guardian, or other person having legal control of the student.

2. Prescription medications must be in English & the original container, bearing a prescription label that includes the student's name, the name of the medicine, directions concerning dosage, the name of the prescribing physician, the name of the pharmacy filling the prescription, and the date the prescription was filled during current school year.

3. Prescription inhalant medications, properly labeled, may be carried by the student if directed in writing by the physician and parent.  This request must be filed in the school clinic.

4. All physician's sample medication must be accompanied by a written authorization from the physician.

No district employee will be required to give medication above the daily recommended dosage by the Federal Drug Administration.  NO MEDICATION WILL BE DISPENSED FOR A MISSED DOSE UNLESS WRITTEN AUTHORIZATION IS RECEIVED FROM THE PARENT/GUARDIAN FOR EACH DOSE MISSED.

OVER-THE-COUNTER MEDICATION