Parents
Health Procedures & Forms
Health Procedures
Medicine
Students may not possess, dispense, or distribute medication on their own. Prescription medicine must be accompanied with a physician order and dropped off by the parent or guardian to the school nurse. The medicine should be brought to school in the original container and include the name of the medicine, directions for use, time, strength, dose, name of ordering medical provider, and student’s name and grade. At the end of the school year, all medications must be picked up by the parent/guardian by the last day of school. Medicine not picked up will be disposed of.
Students are allowed to carry emergency medication such as an EpiPen or a rescue inhaler but need an order from the doctor allowing them to do so. The form Physician Instructions for Prescribing Medication is used and the box that says student may carry and self-administer medication is checked off.
All over-the-counter medicine provided in the health room is listed on the form Consent for Over-the-Counter (OTC) Medication. This form must be signed by both the parent and health care provider to be valid. The form needs to be renewed every school year.
All over-the-counter medicine provided in the health room is listed on the form Consent for Over-the-Counter (OTC) Medication. This form must be signed by both the parent and health care provider to be valid. The form needs to be renewed every school year.
Procedure for students who become ill during the school day: Students who become ill during the school day should report to their teacher prior to reporting to the health room. Students whose illness cannot be treated expeditiously by the nurse will have their parents notified by the nurse so that they may be picked up and taken home or to their healthcare provider. Students may not contact their parents and/or leave campus without release notification by the nurse. If your son drives to school and needs to leave due to illness, both verbal and written permission from the parent to the nurse is required to release your son. The nurse’s emails are nurse@msjnet.edu or pbezirdjian@msjnet.edu.
Please keep your student home for the following:
COVID-19: Please keep your son home if he has tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 5 days and notify the nurse and Attendance Office. Students are allowed to return on day 6 as long as symptoms have improved and fever free for 24 without use of medicine. We require wearing a mask inside buildings on days 6-10. Diarrhea: Two or more episodes of diarrhea, and no other symptoms, please keep your son home for 24 hours
Drainage from the eyes: If your student has purulent drainage from the eyes, associated with conjunctivitis (pink eye) your son must be kept home until under the treatment from a doctor. Please provide a note from your son’s healthcare provider that he is cleared to return.
Fever: If your student has a temperature of >100 degrees orally and no other symptoms, and no known exposure to COVID, the student should be kept at home until he is fever-free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medicine such as Tylenol or Ibuprofen.
Sore throat: If your son has been diagnosed with a streptococcal infection, he must stay home for 24 hours after start of antibiotic treatment and be fever free for 24 hours without use of fever-reducing medicine. Please provide a note from your son’s healthcare provider that he is cleared to return to school.
Vomiting: Two or more episodes of vomiting in a 24-hour period, and no other symptoms, the student should be kept home for 24 hours since he last vomited.
Notify the School Nurse:
Concussion: Please report to the nurse if your son has been diagnosed with a concussion. For academic accommodations, we require either an Acute Concussion Evaluation (ACE) Care Plan or the Post Concussion Return to School Recommendations completed by your son’s healthcare provider.
COVID-19: Please keep your son home if he has tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 5 days and notify the nurse and Attendance Office. Students are allowed to return on day 6 as long as symptoms have improved and fever free for 24 without use of medicine. We require wearing a mask inside buildings on days 6-10. Diarrhea: Two or more episodes of diarrhea, and no other symptoms, please keep your son home for 24 hours
Drainage from the eyes: If your student has purulent drainage from the eyes, associated with conjunctivitis (pink eye) your son must be kept home until under the treatment from a doctor. Please provide a note from your son’s healthcare provider that he is cleared to return.
Fever: If your student has a temperature of >100 degrees orally and no other symptoms, and no known exposure to COVID, the student should be kept at home until he is fever-free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medicine such as Tylenol or Ibuprofen.
Sore throat: If your son has been diagnosed with a streptococcal infection, he must stay home for 24 hours after start of antibiotic treatment and be fever free for 24 hours without use of fever-reducing medicine. Please provide a note from your son’s healthcare provider that he is cleared to return to school.
Vomiting: Two or more episodes of vomiting in a 24-hour period, and no other symptoms, the student should be kept home for 24 hours since he last vomited.
Notify the School Nurse:
Concussion: Please report to the nurse if your son has been diagnosed with a concussion. For academic accommodations, we require either an Acute Concussion Evaluation (ACE) Care Plan or the Post Concussion Return to School Recommendations completed by your son’s healthcare provider.
Health Forms
Parents, please read the following directions regarding physicals, immunizations, over-the-counter and prescribed medicine in school. Prior to your son’s physical, download the Student Physical, Immunization (New Students Only), and Consent for over-the-Counter Medicine forms and take these with you to your son’s appointment. If your son needs to take a daily prescribed medicine or carries an Epi-pen or rescue inhaler, please take the form Physician Prescribing Medicine in School or the FARE form to your son’s appointment.
Please note, if your son is playing a sport, you will need to upload his physical twice. He will need a physical with the school nurse (using SNAP) and with the school athletic trainer (using Healthy Roster).
STUDENT PHYSICALS:
For the 2023-2024 school year, we require a physical for all students. Physicals must be done after May 19, 2023, and sent to the school nurse by August 16, 2023, for new students, and August 28, 2023, for returning students. You must use our form for your son’s physical. If you are unable to get a physical with your son’s primary healthcare provider, we accept physicals done at Patient First, Minute Clinic, and other walk-in health clinics.
HEALTH FORM SUBMISSION:
All health forms for the school nurse are to be submitted electronically. We are implementing the SNAP Health Portal for parents to upload their son’s health forms securely and to have access to your son’s health information. SNAP stands for School Nurse Assistant Program. The designated primary parent will receive an email from the SNAP Health Portal the last week of May that you will need to login to and set up an account. The email will be from Noreply@studentehr.com - Do not delete it.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Mrs. Pam Bezirdjian at nurse@msjnet.edu or 410-644-3300 ext. 2354.
SPORTS: Students playing a sport are required to have their physical uploaded to Healthy Roster prior to tryouts. Please visit the sports medicine page under the athletics tab for information about Healthy Roster, uploading your son’s physical, and sports-related questions. Physicals are valid for one calendar year and cannot expire during the sport season.
IMMUNIZATIONS: FRESHMEN AND TRANSFER STUDENTS are required to submit a CURRENT IMMUNIZATION CERTIFICATE (MDH FORM 896) to the school nurse by the first day of school. Parents are responsible for providing an updated immunization record and should not rely on their son’s former school for sending over immunization forms.
Returning students do not need to submit another immunization record. Students must abide by the vaccination requirements of the Maryland State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Students who do not have the required vaccinations on the first day of school must demonstrate proof of vaccination, positive titer results, or proof of vaccination appointment to occur within 20 calendar days.
Medical Exemptions: The school only permits medical exemptions from vaccine requirements as documented by a licensed health care provider.
Religious Exemptions:
- Approval is by the School Principal.
- Parent must complete and submit an Immunization Certificate (MDH Form 896) along with AOB Religious Objection for Vaccine Statement.
- Religious exemption must be approved upon enrollment. Yearly reapproval is not required but is subject to change.
- If student gets another vaccination, then cannot get exemption.
- Exempted students are to be excluded from school if there is an outbreak of the disease(s) for which they are not immunized.
If your son uses an Epi-pen, your physician can complete either the FARE form or the Physician Prescribing Medication in School form.
Download Forms
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Student Physical
Please use this form for your son's physical.
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Immunization Certificate - MDH Form 896
This certificate is REQUIRED of all new students.
- AOB - Religious Objection for Vaccination Supporting Statement
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Consent for OTC Medications 2023-2024
This form is required if you want your son to receive any over-the-counter medicine while in school. The form needs to be renewed every year and must be signed by a healthcare provider as well as the parent to be valid. The school nurse can’t dispense medicine without this form.
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Post-Concussion Return to School Form
This form is to be completed by a healthcare provider following a concussion diagnosis. The form must be returned to the nurse on the student’s first day back to school.
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Physician Instructions for Prescribing Medication in School
This form is mandatory for any student who will need prescription medicine during the school day.
- Food and Allergy Care Plan (FARE)
Mount Saint Joseph High School
Mount Saint Joseph is a Catholic, college preparatory school for young men sponsored by the Xaverian Brothers.
