Staff Essential Information

Medical Information

Medical Information for students in your classes is available on Consent2Go. You can select your class and view students’ medical information. Students at risk of anaphylaxis are marked on your class lists with a medical alert.

Attendance

If you are concerned about a student’s health please do not send them to the health centre alone. Please ensure they are escorted to the health centre by a staff member or a responsible student.

Medication

For safety reasons all medications must be kept in the health centre rather than carried by students.

Parents are required to give specific consent for the administration of medications at school (excludes emergency medication for asthma and anaphylaxis/allergies). Students must not be administered medication by staff without gaining consent from the parent/guardian.

First Aid Kits

First Aid kits must be taken whenever students are taken off campus. It is the responsibility of the teacher to notify the nurses and organise to collect the kit. Each first aid kit should contain an Epipen. This will be highlighted by a red band placed around the handle. A Mazenod College Injury Form is to be completed for all first aid provided to a student, and handed to the nurses.

Infectious Illnesses

There are some members of our College community who are immunosuppressed. This puts them at serious risk if they are exposed to infectious illnesses, in particular, chicken pox, measles, mumps or shingles. If you are diagnosed with any of these illnesses, please inform the nurses ASAP.

Staff Education

There are a number of health related online training courses that are mandatory for staff to complete. These include:

• Anaphylaxis online training. Must be completed every 2 years, which includes verification of EpiPen administration. Verification will be done by the health centre nurses. You will receive an email with the required links when you are due to update your training. If you have previously completed this and it is still current, please provide a copy of your signed certificate to the nurses.

• Attendance at biannual Anaphylaxis briefing presented by the nurses.

• Asthma online training. To be completed every 3 years.

Please visit the Health Centre tile on Mazcom for links to the online training courses. https://mazcom.mazenod.vic.edu.au/homepage/3631

Student Health Resources

The nurses have compiled a selection of relevant health information for students. This information can be accessed on Mazcom under ‘student services’ and then ‘health information’, or by clicking the link below. https://mazcom.mazenod.vic.edu.au/homepage/8885

Year level leaders and homeroom teachers are encouraged to make students aware of this resource. Should staff require additional health information or resources please contact the health centre.

Version 8.1 (March 2023)