Student Health Information
It is well known healthy children learn best. School nurses are instrumental in helping students attend school healthy and prepared to learn. Orange County Schools provide registered nurses to serve as a resource in caring for student and staff health care needs during the school day.
Growing numbers of students attending our schools suffer from health concerns such as asthma, severe allergies, diabetes, sickle cell, and seizures. Nurses work with parents and physicians to complete Individual Healthcare Plans or Emergency Action Plans to meet students' known or potential healthcare needs during the school day. Nurses are instrumental in establishing guidelines for care. School nurses instruct and monitor non-medical school staff to care for children in the classroom who may either be undergoing chemotherapy treatments, require catheterizations, feeding tubes, insulin pumps, tracheostomy care or other stoma care.
School nurses are often the only source of health care for many students attending our schools. Nurses will work with parents, teachers, social workers and other school staff as well as accessing various community and state resources to meet the health care needs of our students. Parents and teachers may refer student health concerns to the school nurse for evaluation and consideration.
School nurses contribute to the successful educational outcomes of students by providing ongoing screenings, assessments, and interventions to ensure students have the necessary support to allow optimum learning.
Note to Families, Fall 2024
Mass vision screening will begin soon for the following grades and students.
Please alert your school nurse if you have any questions or concerns. The school nurse will communicate any vision concerns with parents and guardians directly.
- Kindergarten (males only, color screening)
- Grades 1, 3, 5, and 7 (all students)
Thank you,
Sylvia Compton, BSN, RN, NCSN
Lead Nurse Orange County Schools
Mass hearing screening will also begin soon for all students in 1st, 4th and 7th Grades.
Please alert your school Speech-Language Pathologist if you have any questions or concerns or would like to opt your child out of the hearing screening.
The school Speech-Language Pathologist will communicate any hearing concerns with parents and guardians directly.
Thank you,
Leslie Readyhough
OCS Lead Speech-Language Pathologist