In accordance with Florida House Bill 1557, Parental Rights in Education, School District Responsibilities, requires each school district, at the beginning of the school year, to notify parents/guardians of each health care service offered at their child’s school and provide parents the option to withhold consent or decline any specific service.   The Parent/Guardian Consent for School Health Services Form is required for each student every school year.

• Basic, non-emergent health needs include onsite evaluation, management, health teaching and aid for illness or injury pending the student’s return to the classroom or release to a parent, guardian, designated friend, law enforcement officer, or designated health care provider (see FS 381.056).  
• Emergency health needs such as first aid (for example ice for head injury, nosebleeds, cuts, and abrasions), cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), use of an automated external defibrillator (AED), or use of the STOP the Bleed kit will be performed by employees until emergency medical services arrive without prior parent/guardian consent (F.S. 768.13). Attempts will continue to be made to contact the parent/guardian for consent, if a consent form is not on file.

Additional parent/guardian written consent is required every school year for employees to administer daily, as needed, or over-the-counter prescribed medications, conduct medical procedures or provide medical treatment.  Please contact Nurse Klakring at sklakring@bdchs.org if you have any questions about medication administration at school.