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Dear North Clackamas Families,
As this school year officially kicks off, nearly 17,000 students are walking through our school doors each morning…many of them bringing along their backpacks, their lunches, and hopefully, big smiles. It also means they could be bringing along coughs, sneezes, sniffles, or other germs and infections they don't even know they're carrying. As this school year begins, we all have concerns about the health and safety of all of our students and staff members.
In North Clackamas, we recognize these concerns and want to make sure you feel safe sending your students to school each day. Please follow these instructions for each of our schools and departments. Following are a list of symptoms that would require a student to stay home from school and the soonest a student may be able to return to school (these are school instructions and not medical advice):
Fever temperature of 100.4° or greater
Fever-free for 24 hours without taking fever-reducing medicine. |
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New cough illness
Symptoms improving for 24 hours (no cough or cough is well-controlled). |
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New Difficulty Breathing
Symptoms improving for 24 hours (breathing comfortably). Urgent medical care may be needed. |
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Diarrhea
Symptom-free for 48 hours OR with orders from doctor to school nurse. |
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Vomiting: one or more episode that is unexplained
Symptom-free for 48 hours OR with orders from doctor to school nurse. |
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Headache with stiff neck and fever
An individual may return when Symptom-free OR with orders from doctor to school nurse. Follow fever instructions above. Urgent medical care may be needed. |
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Skin rash or open sores
An individual may return when Symptom free, which means rash is gone OR sores are dry or can be completely covered by a bandage OR with orders from doctor to school nurse. |
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Red eyes with colored drainage
Symptom-free, which means redness and drainage are gone OR with orders from doctor to school nurse. |
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Jaundice: new yellow color in eyes or skin
After the school has orders from doctor or local public health authority to school nurse. |
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Acting differently without a reason
Symptom-free, which means return to normal behavior OR with orders from doctor to school nurse. |
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Major health event
After the school has orders from doctor to school nurse and after measures are in place for the student’s safety. Please work with school staff to address special health-care needs so the student may attend safely. |
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