Good morning,
Please read carefully for information concerning medication coverage on the spring trip to San Antonio.
Five forms attached – There are five forms attached. (VIEW ALL FORMS HERE)
1) Chelsea High School overnight field trip information form. (View Form)
2) The form titled Overnight Trip Letter must be turned in FOR EVERY STUDENT regardless of whether they need or are bringing medication and regardless of whether a parent is traveling with us. You can send this form in with your child or you can scan it to Nurse Fields at afields@shelbyed.org. (View Form)
3) The form titled Over-the-Counter PPA is for any over-the-counter medicines that need to be submitted. (View Form)
4) The form titled Prescription PPA is for any prescription medication that needs to be submitted. (View Form)
5) A blanket Tylenol form for convenience (explained more below). (View Form)
Prescription medications – The Prescription PPA form attached will authorize the distribution of prescription medications. The prescribing doctor’s signature must be obtained to validate the form for a prescription. This is one reason I am sending this out in advance, as sometimes it is not timely to get a doctor’s signature. Please read the Chelsea HS Overnight Trip attachment for more information.
Over the counter medications – Any over the counter medications that a student regularly takes will need an Over-the-Counter PPA form (attached). Please read the Chelsea HS Overnight Trip attachment for more information.
Blanket Tylenol form – If you want to have a failsafe option for your child to be able to take Tylenol, you may fill out this form and NOT send in any medicine. We will provide a community Tylenol bottle and this form would allow students to be given Tylenol if needed.
If a student needs medicine and is traveling with their parent – The student’s parent will administer their medicine and only their medicine. These adults may not hold and/or distribute medicine for another student that is not their child.
Forms and medicine due dates – All forms and medicine are due to Nurse Fields by April 14. For prescriptions, please note that the Overnight Trip attachment says to only send the amount of medicine needed and no more. If a child takes a morning medicine, for example, they would take it before we leave on April 22, and then send four doses of that medicine that would be administered the other mornings of the trip.
Who administers the medicine? – We have several teachers traveling on the trip who are Medication Assistants. We will divide the students among these teachers and the students will know to look for that particular teacher for medicine needs.
Spring Trip meeting – Please be reminded of our informational meeting this Thursday, April 2 at 6:00pm in the CHHS auditorium. We will cover these medicine procedures in more detail. Much, much more information will also be covered.
Contact Nurse Fields with questions – We have a wonderful school nurse at CHHS. You may contact Nurse Fields at afields@shelbyed.org or through phone at 205-682-7201. She is happy to answer questions so that we can avoid problems as we get closer to the trip.
THANK YOU for reading this information!