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WELCOME BACK!!!

I hope each and every one of you had an amazing, restful summer break!! It’s now time to turn your school nurse brains back on.

AUTOMATIC EMAILS

Automatic Email Replies

Please remember to TURN OFF your automatic email replies when you return from summer break.

NURSING SCHEDULE 23-24

Please take a look at the nursing schedule for the 23-24 school year. There were quite a bit of changes over the summer.

PREP DAYS

School Prep Days – Please complete this form to document your days you plan on using for school prep flex days and/or time sheet days. The maximum number of prep days allowed is 5 days.

DAY OFF REQUESTS

  • Day off requests – Get your requests in ASAP for any time you wish to take off. (This includes school conference days.)
    • Classified Staff – Per HR, no more than 5 unpaid days can be used for personal time (vacation, recreation, etc.) during the school year.
    • Please remember when requesting an extended period of time off for personal time (greater than 5 days), your team is affected by needing to support your assignment.  

  • Dates not available to request time off*Please do not request time off during these times. 
    • There will be mandatory nurse staff /meetings trainings on the following non-school days:
      • Friday, February 2, 2024 
      • Thursday, April 11, 2024
      • Friday, April 12, 2024. 

NURSE MEETINGS

First All Nurse meeting is: 

  • Tuesday, August 29, 2023 
  • 1030-4pm (lunch will be provided)
  • The Board Room (520 NW Wall St.)

SAFETY

AEDs

Please check your AEDs and update the AED master spreadsheet. 

AED Supplies

Please use the following link to request AED supplies. Please do not email Michelle for supplies. This new process will make supply replenishment easier and more efficient for everyone.

CPR/First Aid  

HANDS ON SKILLS CLASSES (20 min class) will be offered at the end of August.

THERE WILL BE NO HANDS-ON SKILLS CLASSES DURING THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER. They will resume again in October.

Wildfire Smoke/AQI and Health Illness Trainings

  • Please take some time to review these trainings. Nurses do not need to show these trainings during their staff trainings. 

School-level Communicable Disease Management Plan

Building administrators were sent a template to complete and file in a Google Docs folder. Each school’s plan can be viewed here. 

For questions, please contact Tami directly. Please do not make any changes to the plans already uploaded.

Trainings/Professional Development

  • QPR Training – Mandatory (if you haven’t taken the class within the last year)
    • Wednesday, October 25, 2023
    • 230-4pm
    • Location: TBD
  • Mandatory nurse staff /meetings trainings on the following non-school days:
    • Friday, February 2, 2024 
    • Thursday, April 11, 2024
    • Friday, April 12, 2024. 
  • Assessment Basics for School Nurses: Orthopedic Injury

ILLNESS SYMPTOMS

The following information went out to level leaders for their blogs last week. Please check your COVID-19 test kit supply at your schools and let Michelle or Tami know if you need more for your sites.

Illness Symptoms and When to Stay Home

Bend-La Pine Schools follows the Oregon Health Authority/Oregon Department of Education’s Communicable Disease Guidance for Schools. This guidance includes when an individual should be excluded from attending school (in-person) or any school-related activities such as clubs and sports. 

For information on symptom-based exclusion guidelines, see page 8 of the Communicable Disease Guidance for Schools. 

  • Fever – An individual must be fever free for 24 hours without the use of fever reducing medications.
  • Diarrhea/vomiting – Must be at least 48 hours since last episode.

COVID-19 is no longer an excludable disease (unless symptoms of fever, vomiting, and/or diarrhea are present). Parents/guardians/staff are no longer required to report positive cases of COVID-19 to the schools. COVID-19 test kits and medical grade face masks are available to students and staff upon request. Check with your school nurse about how to obtain a supply for your school.

Please refer families to the Health and Wellness section on our Bend-La Pine Schools website for more information about when to stay home.

THIS AND THAT

ANNUAL OFFICE MANAGER TRAINING

PRESENTATION SLIDES

This information was presented to office managers during their annual office manager training for the 23/24 school year. Some of this information nurses don’t need but some of the information would be good for you to know. 

FREQUENTLY CALLED NUMBERS

You can access the Frequently Called Numbers list for the district in the Staff Portal under Quick Links. 

HUMAN RESOURCES

OEBB Open Enrollment is open! Check out the Benefits website for all kinds of great information, learning opportunities, and resources to help them complete their enrollment. Enrollment closes on September 15.

Paid Leave Oregon. Paid Leave Oregon is “a-go!” American Fidelity is the equivalent plan provider for BLS. We are working to set up information with American Fidelity for employees to submit their applications online and will send out communication once the system is ready.

Please check out the Paid Leave Oregon portion of the Benefits website for more information. If administrators have questions around employee, eligibility, etc. please reach out to the Benefits team at [email protected]

EAP & Wellness Resources. A reminder that the Human Resources Portal page has some great information and resources for employees to help support their well-being.

BLS NURSE CHECK-IN SURVEY

Having a stressful week? Need some extra support? Suggestions for nurse meeting ideas. Please complete the BLS Nurse Check-In Survey

 ALL ABOUT YOU

Please complete the About YOU form.