"How to Use These Guidelines"

The guidelines provided in this manual were compiled to help you with the administration of health services for the students in your school district.

Whether you are a School Administrator or a School Nurse, these guidelines will help you to better serve your students, their families and your community.

If you are a School Administrator ...

We specifically suggest you first look at Section II, "The School Administrator," and Section IV, "The School Administrator and The School Nurse." In these two sections you will find information which is especially helpful to you in administering your school health services program.

The former section addresses the specific physical environment in which your school operates and how you can maintain it as a healthy environment for learning.

The latter section provides a view of your role in the school health services program, especially as to the importance of your administrator's role in supporting the educational and health promotion programs of the state of Nebraska.

If you are a School Nurse ...

It is important that you familiarize yourself with the entire Guidelines.

We ask you to keep the Guidelines in a 3-ring binder which is readily accessible for basic reference whenever you need to refer to it in your daily school nursing activities.

In addition, updated information will be periodically sent to you.

You will then be able to insert these new pages easily into your copy of the Guidelines.

We ask you for your in-put as to how we might improve these Guidelines to make them more useful to you. And of course, if you have questions regarding anything in the Guidelines, we encourage you to call the School Nurse Coordinator here at Nebraska Health and Human Services. The telephone number, which is repeated throughout the Guidelines, is 402-471-0160.

Lastly, we would be most appreciative of any feed-back you feel would help us -- help you -- do your job better.

If you let us know what you need to better serve your communities, we at NHHS School Health Program will do our best to help provide it to you. Through open communication and cooperation, we indeed can realize "Healthier Children -- Healthy Nebraska."

Thank you.

The School Health Advisory Committee
Nebraska Health and Human Services
January 2004