• Practice good hand hygiene by washing your hands often with soap and water, especially after coughing or sneezing. Alcohol-based hand cleaners are also effective.
• Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. If you don’t have a tissue, cough or sneeze into your elbow or shoulder; not into your hands.
• Stay home if you or your child is sick for at least 24 hours after there is no longer a fever or signs of a fever (without the use of fever-reducing medicine). Keeping sick students at home means that they keep their viruses to themselves rather than sharing them with others.
• Get your family vaccinated for seasonal flu and 2009 H1N1 flu when vaccines are available.

Sometime during this school year, vision and hearing screening exams will be performed by a School Nurse team on all students in grades kindergarten, 2^nd, 5^th, 8^th, 10^th and all new students entering the Burbank Unified School District.  In addition to these state mandated screening exams (E.C. 49452), a dental check and assessment of height and weight measurements will be conducted.

In the past, these routine exams have identified those students in need of further evaluation by their health care provider and parents/guardians have been advised to make appointments for the child (ren).  In many cases, these screening exams have identified findings during early stages of vision or hearing deficits as well as dental problems, thereby preventing additional complications and cost to the child and their family.

If you have any further questions, please refer to the 2009-2010 edition of the “Annual Notification to Parents/Guardians” distributed by the district to all students, or speak with me at the Stevenson Health Office.

Hannah Nunn, RN School Nurse