BLS Nurse Blog
WORLD KANGAROO DAY
October 24, 2025 is World Kangaroo Day!!!
This day is to help raise awareness for the conservation of kangaroos.
Here are a couple of fun facts about kangaroos:
- Kangaroos are good swimmers and will use water to escape predators or cross rivers.
- Kangaroos cannot walk backward because of their large feet and tail.
CARDIOLOGY
Dr. Tajchman is in the house!!!
Dr. Tajchman will be coming to our next nurse meeting on Wednesday, November 5th. Please submit any questions/topics you would like for her to address here.
MEASLES
Update from Deschutes County
Health Alert Network
Measles found from a waste water treatment plant in Marion County. More information can be found here.
You can view the BLS Measles Response Plan here.
OFFICE OF POLICY AND ADVOCACY
From Kinsey Martin
Family Engagement Calendar
We now have an Outlook calendar to communicate and coordinate district-wide family engagement events and key dates! It includes district-wide events where families are the audience, such as Financial Aid night or Latino Family Night, as well as the “do not schedule” dates for religious observances.
This is a staff-facing tool, for awareness, access, and coordination of school, district, and program-specific family events. Please work with your office staff to add this calendar to your school Outlook calendar—instructions here.
SAFETY
DCHS Substance Abuse Overdose Response Briefing 10-17-25
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Suicide risk and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI)
From Sean Reinhart, Jennifer Hauth, and Jamie Gunter
The Student Services Team is reaching out with a yearly reminder of protocols and procedures around suicide risk and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), as required by Adi’s Act (Senate Bill 52). We will be providing a series of updates to ensure that administrators are informed on updated protocols.
Reminder: Postvention
Please review the updated protocols in the BLS Sudden Death Response Procedures For Building Admin & Staff. We will review this information at the December 3, 2025, Safety Cadre.
- View the updated sudden death response procedures.
- Review with all of your building staff on these procedures.
- Ask all staff to contact their building administrator if they become aware of any information on the death of a staff member, student, or parent in your school community.
- If a Staff member reaches out to an administrator:
- Thank the reporter and ask that they don’t contact other individuals and share the news they have heard. Oftentimes the information is inaccurate or incomplete and unknowingly propagating rumors can cause harm.
- The building administrator reaches out to Sean, Jennifer, Scott, or their Level Leader (in that order until the first person is reached).
- Student Services will walk you through next steps.
Best-practice postvention around notification helps to prevent further harm or contagion, ensures accuracy and consistency, protects and respects the family, supports emotional safety, and lays the foundation for healing and recovery. If you have questions or concerns around this process, please reach out.
SKILLS FAIR
Friday, January 30, 2026
9am – 12pm
Location TBD
Please consider contributing to this Planning Document with questions you may have on Visual Acuity Screening, Otoscope use, Tube Feeding and Seizures. There is also a section at the bottom where you can write in any other RN – related topics you would like to learn about at nurse meetings before or after the Skills Fair in January.
DATES TO REMEMBER
Upcoming Nurse Events/Meetings
| DATE | EVENT | TIME | LOCATION |
| Wednesday, 10/29 | No school elem/middle | This is a required work day for regular staff. | |
| Thursday, 10/30 | No school elem/middle | This is a required work day for regular staff. | |
| Friday, 10/31 | No school elem/middle | This is a required work day for regular staff. | |
| Wednesday, 11/5 | Nurse Meeting | 2-330 | Ensworth |
| February 6, 2026 | |
| March 6, 2026 | |
| November 7, 2025 | April 10, 2026 |
| December 5, 2025 | May 8, 2026 |
| January 9, 2026 | June 12, 2026 |
$$$$$ When is pay day???? $$$$$
| February 27, 2026 | |
| October 31, 2025 | March 31, 2026 |
| November 28, 2025 | April 30, 2026 |
| December 31, 2025 | May 29, 2026 |
| January 30, 2026 | June 30 , 2026 |