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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="7-417" title_number="7" title_name="Public Schools" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Health and Safety of Students">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In Caroline County the nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or other appropriate health care provider will be assigned, to the extent practicable, to elementary and middle schools.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The services provided by the nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or other appropriate health care provider shall, to the extent practicable, include:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Assessment of the health status of all targeted students in the selected elementary and middle schools including history, physical examination, neuro-developmental evaluation, and all required early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment programs;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Provision of health care including well-child care and treatment of common injuries and illnesses; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Integration of health care with existing health care providers and health education programs directed at students, teachers, and parents.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or other appropriate health care provider shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Collaborate with board certified or board eligible pediatricians in the health management of the school children;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Concentrate on the early identification, health counseling, and referral for mental health problems, with an emphasis on suicide prevention; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <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>
</section>
