Student Health

• Please contact the Health Office directly if your child has a chronic illness or condition (asthma, diabetes, anaphylaxis, heart condition, seizure disorder, etc.) and indicate details on the Medical Examination Form.
• If your child requires emergency medication to be kept at school, for their medical condition, prescriptions must be renewed upon expiration.

• Medication should not be brought to school unless it is essential to the health of the student. Student medications should only be taken in the health office as dispensed by the school nurse, not in the classroom or cafeteria. Over-the-counter medication may be dispensed by the nurse per the doctor’s standing order with written permission from the parents. Prescription medication should be delivered to the health office before school starts with a prescription from the doctor and the parent’s or guardian’s signature.
• Parents must provide written consent via note or email (nurse@tas.edu.tw) and keep the medication in the doctor’s original packaging with a list of the medication names. Each package or bottle of medication must be labeled with the student’s name.

With minor injuries, the nurses administer first aid as necessary. In the case of illness, the nurse will assess the student and may send the student home if necessary. If a student is well enough to attend school, they are expected to participate in all class activities including PE and swimming. In the event of a life-threatening emergency, parents are notified, and the student is taken to the emergency room of a nearby hospital. A school employee will accompany the student and stay with them until their parents arrive. In the event of an injury that requires medical treatment but is not life-threatening, the school nurse will contact the parents and work with them to discuss transportation and medical care. 

When a student suffers a head injury on or off-campus, the concussion case manager (CCM) is notified and works closely with the divisional concussion management team (CMT) to support the student and to provide a safe plan for returning to school activities. Parents who would like further information regarding the Return to Learn protocols and procedures may contact their child’s school counselor.

• Please do not send a student with a fever to school.  Students with a fever need to be fever-free and not take any fever-reducing medication for 24 hours before returning to school. These guidelines are to ensure that the spread of illness is kept to a minimum. Please keep your child at home and contact the health office if your child has been diagnosed with a communicable illness such as chickenpox, shingles, hand-foot-and-mouth disease, enteroviruses, influenza, pink eye or conjunctivitis. The nurse will provide instructions regarding their return to school.
• The nurse will provide instructions regarding policies for return to school.

• TAS has a nit-free policy before returning to school.
• Please arrange for the nurse at the Health Office to examine your child before returning to the classroom.