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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="7-416" title_number="7" title_name="Public Schools" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Health and Safety of Students">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In Baltimore City, the nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or other appropriate health care provider shall be assigned to Walbrook Senior High School, P.S. 411.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The range of services provided by the nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or other appropriate health care provider with appropriate physician collaboration should, to the extent feasible, include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Total health assessment including history, physical examination, and neurological evaluation for all entering students and handicapped students, provided however, that existing health records of the student shall be used if available;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Referral to and follow–up with identified primary care sources for each student in the targeted population;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Follow–up on treated sports injuries;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Management of selected minor illnesses and injuries in the school according to treatment protocols which will be developed; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Establishment of working relationships with all teachers, especially health education teachers.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or other appropriate health care provider shall, to the extent practicable:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Participate actively in the School Screening Committee;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Be responsible for the basic medical evaluation and certification for student placement;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Concentrate on early identification, health counseling, and referral for:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Venereal disease;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Drug abuse;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Alcoholism;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Handicapping conditions; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Mental health problems;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Evaluate the relationship between use of the school health clinic services and use of hospital emergency room services;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Establish working relationships with parents, students, and community organizations to demonstrate the efficacy of involving parents, students, and community organizations in school health clinics to enhance recruitment and retention of students;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Evaluate, to the extent possible, the effect of participation in the program on the physical and mental well–being and school performance of the students;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Assess, to the extent possible, whether school health programs could be used as a basis for advising other family members of the student of other sources of primary care;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>Be responsible to the Bureau of School Health of the Baltimore City Health Department; and work closely with the school principal and staff;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>Continue to function within the Baltimore City Health Department when the schools are not in session, by managing his or her caseload of school–age children in the community, including follow–through on referrals made during the school year, and the assessment of selected children in summer programs for certification of school placement; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>Be a part of the well–child clinic delivery system provided by the Baltimore City Health Department.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Physician consultation and collaboration in medical management of care shall be available at all times on–site or by telephone.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Other consultant services in the school health program, in the maternal child health program, or in the community health nursing program will be available as needed by the nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or other appropriate health care provider.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
