Student Health and safety

Student Health and safety Second Annual ParaEducator Conference SCCOE August 2012

Welcome !!! • Introductions • Overview • General session • reminders and updates • Packet: • supplemental/explanatory • review for more information • And, if there are still questions, feel free to ask your school nurse.

What is in the packet? • Health and Safety Manual • Reminder from the Nurse (parents) • When do I call the School Nurse? (staff) • Accident report • Bullying • Standard Precautions/Handwashing • Guidelines for Medications • SZ documents: protocols, log • W/C Safety

Health and Safety Manual Everything you want to know about health and safety in the classroom. Every classroom MUST have one. If you don’t have one, ask your teacher, your principal, your OC.

When do I call the school nurse?? • Reminder from the Nurse (for parents) • Health guidelines for student attendance • Reminder from the Nurse (for staff) • Medical Emergencies/Accidents • head injury • bites with bleeding • 911 calls • Accident Reports

Accident Reports • Legaldocument • Instructions are on the back • ONLY the witness completes it • Only objective factual statements • Never useanother student’s name • Complete every blank/answer every question • Copy goes home the day of event • Call the parent/guardian • Document every bruise or slight injury, even those on arrival at school • Especially important with blood exposure and head injury (dedicated box and extra form)

What is Bullying? Bullying is a learned behavior. • Intentional • Harmful • Repeated • Involves a power imbalance

Bullying at school • Our SpEd students are at higher risk for being bullied. • Kids with LD and ADHD are likely to be bullied; also are more likely to be bullies! • Kids with medical conditions that affect appearance (CP, MD, SB) more likely to be victimized. • Kids with hemiplegia (one-sided paralysis) are more likely to be victimized, to be rated as less popular, and to have fewer friends.

Types of bullying • Physical: actions harming another person’s body • Verbal: speaking to a person or about a person in a demeaning way • Emotional: isolating, humiliating, or upsetting another person • Sexual: singling out a person for unwelcome sexual attention • Racial: rejection/isolation because of ethnicity • Cyberbullying: Using technology (text messages, websites) to harass, humiliate, threaten, embarrass, or otherwise harm others.

Characteristics of the bully • Displays aggressive behavior • Thrives on feelings of power • Does not respect the needs of others • Avoids accepting responsibility for actions • Deliberately displays harmful behavior towards others • Uses threats, isolation, peer pressure, intimidation, or charm to control others

Sccoebullying policy • There is one!  Copy in packet. • If anyone needs help with resources for interventions, let your teacher, nurse, or principal know. • List of resources in your packet.

confidentiality What happens here, stays here. • SPHC aides and transport aides are not to talk about class happenings and other students with families • No talking about the student in the classroom • Do not mention other students in ARs • CPS/APS referrals are COMPLETELY confidential • Files are to be locked up. Blue books accessible but private. • Personal protocols are not posted • First names or initials for posting allergies • No personal (medical or educational) info in the public domain

Mandated reporter Who? Anyone who is authorized to oversee a child’s, or dependent adult’s, welfare or work with children, whether a permanent or temporary worker (substitute teacher, for example), whether credentialed or not, whether degreed or not. The responsibility for reporting rests solely with the mandated reporter. Reporting suspected abuse to an employer, supervisor, school principal, school counselor, coworker, or other person is not a substitute for reporting to a child protective agency

Mandated reporter What? • Physical • Sexual • Neglect • Emotional • Financial Abuse

Mandated reporter When? Must be reported when you have “knowledge of or observes a child/dependent adult in his or her professional capacity, or within the scope of his or her employment whom he or she knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of abuse..." You are not required to prove that abuse has occurred. That will be determined through investigation by the welfare professionals or law enforcement.

Mandated reporter When? • You must make a report immediately (or as soon as practically possible) by phone. • A written report must be forwarded within 36 hours of receiving the information regarding the incident • Different forms for APS and CPS • Your school nurse, teacher, or principal can help you with the call and report.

Mandated reporter Where? • At home, at school, after-school program, anywhere in the life of the student. • Mandated reporters must make their report to a child/adult protective agency. • Santa Clara County:San Jose Area (408) 299-2071 Gilroy/Morgan Hill (408) 683-0601 Palo Alto Area (650) 493-1186 • AND, everything you need to know is online! Just search for “child (or adult) protective services santaclara county”

blood-borne pathogens & Standard precautions YOU are your own best protection!! • Wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) anytime you WILL or MIGHT come in contact with body fluids. • If you need gowns, masks, or eye protection, ask your teacher or school nurse. • Do NOT wear gloves all the time.

medications • Parent/MD order • Med in proper container • Call the nurse at the beginning of the school day for any irregularity • Meds to bus driver by parent/ student • Bus driver gives it to staff • Meds in a locked container • When to call the nurse about meds • Medication admin documentation

Seizures • Two types of seizures • Generalized • Non-generalized • Two types of seizure protocols • Standard • Individualized • Generalized • Non-generalized

Moving students • Transporting • Lifting • Transferring • W/C safety flyer Back Safety Training coming up from Risk Management for ALL staff

Thank you!!

Student Health and safety