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Welcome to the Taft Nurse's Office
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School Nursing is a specialized practice of professional nursing that advances the well being, academic success, and life long achievement of students. To that end, the school nurses facilitate positive student responses to normal development; promote health and safety; intervene with actual and potential health problems; provide case management services; and actively collaborate with others to build student family capacity for adaptation, self-management, self-advocacy and learning. -National Association of School Nursing
School Nurses monitor the health status, and identify and address unmet health needs of students. The School Health Unit of the Department of Public Health in Massachusetts in collaboration with the National Association of School Nurses, define services provided through the health office. Some of the services provided at Uxbridge High School are:Leadership for the provision of health services
Assures that health needs are met for all studentsIndividualized health care planningCase management for students with health care needsStudent support team memberWellness committee memberCrisis team memberDirect health care to students and staffManagement of chronic conditionsInjury, first aid, and preventionIllness assessment and treatmentMedication administrationHealth counselingHealth screenings and referral for health conditionsPosturalHearing and visionHeight, weight, and BMI measurementsSBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and referral to treatment)Healthy School EnvironmentManagement of school health recordsPhysical examinationsImmunizationsCommunicable disease prevention and controlEnvironmental health and safetyIntercommunication between school community, students, parents, and health care providers
School Nurse
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Kelly Carvalho
Taft ELC Nurse
Office 508-278-8643
Fax 508-278-8646