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WELCOME TO THE UHS HEALTH SERVICES
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:
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- Assures that health needs are met for all students
- Individualized health care planning
- Case management for students with health care needs
- Student support team member
- Wellness committee member
- Crisis team member
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- Management of chronic conditions
- Injury, first aid, and prevention
- Illness assessment and treatment
- Medication administration
- Health counseling
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- Postural
- Hearing and vision
- Height, weight, and BMI measurements
- SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and referral to treatment)
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- Management of school health records
- Physical examinations
- Immunizations
- Communicable disease prevention and control
- Environmental health and safety
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SCHOOL NURSE
Tara Schiller BSN, RN, CPN, NCSN
Uxbridge High School
tschiller@uxbridge.k12.ma.us
Phone: 508-278-8633 x2102
Fax: 508-278-8647
