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From YouTube: 02-01-18 Parents Corner
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Kate speaks with JoAnn Escobosa, R.N., Program Manager School Health Services about health issues concerning students & schools.
B
Sure
my
name
is
Joanna's
Cabasa
I'm,
a
pediatric
nurse
I've,
been
a
pediatric
nurse
for
30-some
years,
worked
in
a
lot
of
different
areas.
I've
been
at
school
health
for
about
eight
years,
I,
think
and
and
I
really
enjoy
it
a
lot.
It's
it's
kind
of
the
culmination
of
all
the
different
places
that
I've
worked
before
here.
So
yeah.
B
Schools
sure
school
nurses
are
public
health
nurses,
which
means
we
just
don't
take
care
of
the
students
we
take
care
of
the
whole
family
in
the
community.
All
their
school
nurses
are
registered,
nurses
and
our
model
is
each
model
in
each
jurisdiction
is
a
little
different.
Our
model
is,
there
is
a
full-time
RN
school
nurse
in
every
high
school
in
middle
school
and
in
special
centers.
A
B
There's
like
5,000
kids,
with
asthma
and
3,000
with
severe
food
allergies
that
might
require
an
EpiPen
there's,
hundreds
of
kids
with
seizure
disorders
and
cardiac
problems
and
type
1
diabetes
and
they're,
spread
out
among
the
entire
school
system.
Our
goal
in
school
health
always
is
to
keep
kids
at
school,
healthy
and
safe
and
in
class
and
ready
to
learn.
So
we
try
to
identify
and
remove
any
barriers
to
education,
we're
kind
of
a
conduit
between
the
healthcare
system
and
the
education
system,
which
are
very
different.
B
A
A
B
Well,
if
you
had
say
your
student
has
asthma,
if
their
asthma
is
not
very
well
controlled,
they
may
be
absent
a
lot
or,
if
they're,
a
same
thing
with
type
1
diabetes.
These
students
that
have
insulin
what
keeps
them
in
school
is
a
program,
a
plan
for
their
their
care,
while
they're
at
school.
It
may
involve
visiting
the
health
room
once
or
many
times
during
the
day,
depending
on
what
it
is,
but
the
school
nurse
kind
of
coordinates
with
both
the
parent
and
the
health
care
provider.
B
B
B
That
right
now
we're
very
much
involved
in
the
the
effort
to
about
opioid
awareness
and
about
the
current
OB
crisis.
As
we
know,
there's
been
a
number
of
increases
in
overdoses
and
deaths
from
those
overdoses
and
there's
been
an
effort
in
our
County
and
in
our
state
and,
of
course,
in
our
nation,
about
this
issue.
A
school
health
is
involved
on
many
levels,
both
on
the
prevention
side
and
on
the
emergency
treatment
side.
B
On
the
emergency
treatment
side,
we
are
the
first
in
the
state
to
stock
naloxone
narcan
the
medicine
that
rapidly
reduces
the
effects
of
an
overdose
in
all
of
our
schools.
K
through
12
125
hours
of
our
schools
have
a
stock
of
this
medicine
police
department,
police
officers
carry
it
as
well
and
I'll
be
honest
with
you
when
we
first
started
talking
about
having
it
in
our
schools.
There
were
a
lot
of
other
areas
in
the
state
that
thought.
Oh,
we'll,
never
use
that
or
we
don't
need
that
or
they
were.
A
B
Program
thought:
no.
If
the
student
is
in
trouble
at
school,
we
want
to
be
prepared
or
frankly,
if
a
parent
or
guardian
is
you
know
we
there
were
some
talk
that
oh
we'll
just
have
it
in
high
schools,
but
actually
we
lobbied
to
make
sure
that
it
was
K
through
12,
because
the
parents
and
grandparents
sometimes
are
the
people
that
are
suffering
the
most.
B
So
when
we
started
that
we
did
that
about
three
years
ago
and
since
then
everybody
has
kind
of
gotten
on
board
with
this,
but
on
the
prevention
end,
the
high
school
and
middle
school
both
have
a
pretty
involved
curriculum
where
they
learn.
Students
learn
about
substance,
abuse
and
the
evils
of
that.
B
C
B
Has
to
do
with
taking
if
you
have
too
many
pills
administered,
which
sometimes
is
the
case.
They'll
come
home
from
the
pharmacy
with
a
bottle
full
and
you
don't
necessarily
need
all
that,
where
you're
taking
it
beyond
the
pain
management
and
into
the
euphoria
effect,
and
then
when
you
can't
get
any
more
prescribed
buying
it
on
the
streets
very
expensive
and
heroines
not
as
expensive.
So
it's
there's
a
kind
of
a
pathway
there,
and
so
our
goal
is
always
no
new
users.
We
don't
want
anybody
new
taking
this
on
so.
C
B
Spent
a
lot
of
time,
educating
parents
and
students,
and
we've
spoken
with
school
groups
and
PTAs
and
coaches
on
on
how
to
take
your
pain,
med
and
when
to
take
it
when
to
stop
when
what
to
do
with
it.
What
when
you
have
when
you,
when
you
have
stopped
what
to
do
with
it,
when
you
have
it
left
over
and
often
what
you
get
from,
the
pharmacy
is
take
every
four
hours
as
needed
for
pain,
and
so,
if
there's
30
pills
in
that
bottle,
you
could
be
in
trouble.
B
5
many
days
of
taking
it
around
the
clock,
so
prescribers
are
getting
better
or
pharmacies
are
getting
better
and
we're
trying
to
educate
parents
on
a
couple
of
things.
That
might
be
not
the
normal
way.
You
you
handle
things
with
it
with
an
older
adolescent.
You
might
say:
go
get
yourself
a
dose
of
Tylenol
and
they
do
it
on
their
own,
but
with
an
opioid
you,
as
the
parent
have
to
hold
on
to
the
bottle.
B
B
What
we
found
is
in
the
research
is
the
majority
of
people
have
pills
left
over
and
the
majority
of
those
people
keep
them,
and
you
know
right
now
it
you
can
dispose
of
any
prescription
medications
at
every
Police
Department
there
over
24
hours
a
day,
there's
a
big
box
and
there
looks
like
a
mail
box.
It's
all
green,
where
you
can
drop
off
your
prescriptions,
and
you
should-
and
this
effort
has
made
us
all
realize
that
you
know
we
all
have
a
medicine
cabinet
at
home.
That's
not
locked
up.
B
Things
that
we
for
some
reason
hold
on
to
and
we
so
we're
trying
to
help
families
know
that
that's
actually
can
be
very
dangerous,
because
one
of
the
pathways
that
young
people
who
get
into
recreational
use
of
these
kinds
of
medications
do
it
through
their
own
medicine
cabinet
or
their
parents,
medicine
cabinet
or
their
grandparents.
My
in
cabinet,
so
educating
the
the
families
about
those
kinds
of
issues
and
and
how
to
prevent
those
new
users
of
prescription
pain,
meds.
As
a
large
effort
in
our
program
right
now,
yeah.
A
B
Well,
our
health
department
has
a
website,
it's
a
a
health
org,
and
on
that
website
you
can
either
find
it
or
you
can
just
put
it
in
the
search
bar
there.
It
forms
there
for
students
with
diabetes
having
to
have
special
kind
of
doctor's
orders,
but
if
you
just
want
your
child
to
have
a
Tylenol
at
school
for.
B
A
form
in
there
called
the
parents
request
to
administer
medication
and
the
parent
feels
at
the
top,
and
the
physician
fills
out
the
prescribing
part
even
over
the
counters,
require
this
form
for
us
to
be
able
to
give
out
medicine,
either
everyday
or
just
as
needed
at
school.
So
those
kinds
of
forms
are
there,
but
also
that
that
website
is
a
treasure
trove
of
other
information.
You
can
find
out
about
what
immunizations
are
indicated
you
can
find
out
about
head
lice.
B
You
can
find
out
about
there's
a
whole
segment
on
how
you
know
when
to
keep
your
child
home
from
school,
like
just
how
sick
do
they
have
to
be
that
you
should
keep
them
home.
There's
also
contact
information
for
all
the
school
nurses
list
it
there.
It's
there's
a
lot
of
good
information
there,
a
health
org,
okay,.
A
B
You
can
call
your
school
directly
on
the
school
website
on
the
ACPs
end
of
the
website.
They
often
list
you
know
the
name
of
the
nurse
and
health
assistant
and
how
to
contact
them,
but
you
can
also
go
to
the
health
department
and
a
health
work
has
a
list
of
who
all
the
school
nurses
are
and
then,
if
you
know,
if
all
else
fails,
you
can
just
call
our
office
yeah
we're
at
4
102
to
2
6
8,
3
8
we're
there
every
day,
that's
the
school
health
services
office.
B
C
A
B
Or
motrin,
and
just
in
case
their
child
gets
sick
or
starts
a
fever.
Many
parents
are
working
and
it
may
take
them.
You
know
half
an
hour
or
whatever
to
get
to
school
to
pick
up
their
student
and
they
know
if
benadryl,
for
students
who
have
mild
allergies,
that
a
dose
of
benadryl
would
do
the
trick
until
the
parent
can
get
there
to
pick.
A
B
So
that's
some
of
the
over-the-counter
things
some
of
the
prescription,
meds
that
we
get
orders
for,
of
course,
are
inhalers
for
kids,
with
asthma
EpiPens
for
students
with
severe
food
allergies,
though
we
do
stock.
We
all
our
health
rooms,
have
a
generic,
not
prescribed
stock,
epinephrine
injector
in
the
schools
that
the
stock
epinephrine
and
the
stock
narcan
are
like
our
two
stock
drugs.
B
We
are,
in
fact,
where
we
have
some
training
this
year
and
about
we
met
with
the
fire
department
to
talk
about
like
what
our
supplies
are
in
case
of
the
event
of
a
catastrophic
accident
or
emergency
at
the
school,
such
as
a
shooter
or
a
bomb.
Some
of
these
kinds
of
things,
and
so
we've
talked
about
safety
and
what
kind
of
equipment
we
need
and
where
we
need
it,
and
the
schools
we're
very
serious
about
that.
So
we
we
figure.
B
B
C
Today,
I
come
to
you
with
exciting
news
about
school
meals.
School
meals
offer
students
a
healthy
school
breakfast
and
lunch
every
day.
Students
are
offered
unlimited
choices
of
fresh
fruits
and
vegetables.
Students
are
encouraged
to
select
up
to
two
cups
of
fresh
produce
each
day
at
lunch
from
our
unique
salad
bars.
You
may
also
monitor
your
child's
school
meals
online.
At
my
payments
Plus.
C
This
is
a
convenient
tool
we
offer
to
all
parents
to
make
managing
your
school
meal
accounts
a
simple
process
to
learn
more
about
my
payments,
plus
simply
visit
WWF
as
plus
calm
or
call
eight
seven,
seven,
two:
three:
seven:
zero:
nine.
Four
six
each
year
families
have
the
ability
to
apply
for
free
or
reduced
price
meals.
The
application
to
apply
is
online
parents.
You
may
log
on
to
apply
for
meals,
a
ACPs
org.
The
process
is
fast,
easy,
convenient
and
it's
accessible
from
any
computer.
C
Remember
if
you
receive
meal
benefits
last
year,
you
must
complete
a
new
application
each
school
year.
Thank
you
for
this
opportunity
to
provide
you
this
valuable
information
pertaining
to
school
meals,
school
meals,
fuel,
your
child's
brain
and
body
for
academic
excellence.
If
you
have
any
questions
regarding
the
healthy
school
meals
offered,
please
contact
me
at
4:10
to
2
to
5,900.