Welcome to Student Health Services

Our goal is to help children maintain optimal health so they can take advantage of all of the educational opportunities offered to them. Healthy children learn better

Parents are encouraged to contact their child’s school nurse with any health concerns that may affect your child during the school day. We appreciate the opportunity to work with students and parents to provide a safe and healthy environment for learning.

We offer the following services:

  • Vision and hearing screenings at various grade levels. Parents will be contacted if their child does not pass any screening.
  • Maintain individual health records for each student, including immunization records
  • Injury and illness assessment
  • Health promotion activities
  • Chronic disease monitoring
  • Identification of health concerns
  • Medication management
USD 465 - Winfield Readmittance Policy Following Communicable Disease

Students and staff shall follow the guidelines for readmittance to school following communicable diseases in order to stop disease transmission and prevent outbreaks. Kansas law (K.S.A. 65-122) directs exactly how we must work to control the spread of communicable diseases. USD 465 follows the Kansas Classroom Handbook of Communicable Diseases authored and provided by the Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Response Section within the Bureau of Epidemiology and Public Health Informatics at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and is available on the KDHE website at: https://www.kdhe.ks.gov/documentcenter/view/13715.

K.A.R. 28 1-5: When the conditions of isolation and quarantine are not otherwise specified by regulation, the isolation and quarantine of persons afflicted with or exposed to infectious or contagious diseases shall be ordered and enforced by the local health officer or the secretary of health and environment in order to preserve the public health, safety, or welfare.

Children with a fever (temperature greater than 100°F) should not come to school until they are fever free at least 24 hours without fever reducing medication.

Vomiting and/or diarrhea (≥ 2 episodes):

  • May return 24 hours after symptoms resolve

Streptococcal Infections (strep throat/impetigo):

  • May return 24 hours after the initiation of appropriate prescribed therapy. 

Respiratory Viral Infections (COVID-19, RSV, Influenza):

  • May return when fever free at least 24 hours without fever reducing medication and improvement of symptoms (reduction of cough, body aches, and headache)

Pertussis (Whooping Cough):

  • Infected persons may return upon completion of prescribed antibiotic therapy. Otherwise, remain in respiratory isolation for 3 weeks if untreated.

Ringworm (Tinea):

  • No exclusion if receiving treatment and taking measures to avoid skin-to-skin contact until skin lesions are completely healed.

Conjunctivitis, Bacterial (Pink-eye):

  • May return to school once any prescribed therapy is implemented.

Hand, Foot, and Mouth Syndrome (Vesicular stomatitis):

  • No exclusion, however, children with fever and rash should stay home until 24 hours fever free.

Fifth Disease (Erythema Infectiosum):

  • No exclusion - may return immediately. Once rash appears, they are no longer contagious.

Scabies:

  • May return to school 24 hours after initiation of prescribed antiparasitic therapy. 

Head Lice:

  • No exclusion - students are sent home at the end of the day and must be treated before returning the following day.

Bed Bugs: No exclusion, however, seek pest control treatment and notify the school nurse.

  • No exclusion, however, seek pest control treatment and notify the school nurse.