Last Updated 08/09

  Mrs. Jenkins' Webpage 

**ALERT**

 

The state has made changes to the immunization requirements for 2009-2010 school year!!

                Diphtheria/Pertussis/Tetanus – Beginning SY 2009 - 2010, students will be required to have one booster dose of a tetanus/diphtheria/pertussis-containing vaccine for entry into the 7th grade, if at least five years have passed         since the last dose of a tetanus-containing vaccine. If five years have not elapsed since the last dose of a tetanus-containing vaccine at entry into the 7th grade, then this dose will become due as soon as the five-year

                     interval has passed. Td vaccine is an acceptable substitute, if Tdap vaccine is medically contraindicated.

Rubell    Varicella* –  One dose of varicella vaccine received on or after the first birthday is required for all students in kindergarten through

    twelfth grade.  Two (2) doses are required if the child was thirteen years old or older at the time the first dose of varicella vaccine was received.  A booster dose is required for students entering kindergarten and 7th

      grade. Reliable parent history or physician validation of   varicella illness may meet requirement.

Meningococcal.-  Students are required to have one dose of meningococcal vaccine for the following grades and school years: SY 2009 - 2010: 7th grade

http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/immunize/rulechange.shtm#adopted

If your child will be entering the 7th grade in 2009-2010 you will be required to have these immunizations to start on the first day of school. During the summer feel free to start turning these records into the clinic August 12th as the clinic will be open for registration. Records will be due by the WAIS Welcome schedule handout. Your student will not receive their schedule until the records are received by the clinic.

*Summer Immunizations Clinics*

*You must bring your shot records with you*

AUGUST:

Free:

  1st-CARE VAN- C.T. Church, 9701 Almeda Genoa, Houston, TX 77075, 10-2pm

  2nd-CARE VAN- Ripley House, 4410 Navigation, Houston, TX 77011, 10-2pm

  5th-CARE VAN- Grace United, 8515 Brookwulf, Houston, TX 77072, 4-7pm

  11th-CARE VAN- Alief ISD, Hasting Campus, 6750 Cook Rd., Houston, TX 77072, 10-1pm

  12th-CARE VAN- Alief ISD, Hasting Campus, 6750 Cook Rd., Houston, TX 77072, 10-1pm

  15th-CARE VAN- Spring Branch Community Center, 8575 Pitner, Houston, TX 77080, 8am-12pm

Low Cost:

 

 

About Mrs. Jenkins RN, BSN

Mrs. Jenkins graduated from Texas Tech Health Science Center with a Bachelor in Nursing in 2005.  She worked for over a year in Lubbock, Texas as a pediatric intensive care nurse at Covenant Children's Hospital. She loved her challenging patients and loved her heart babies but wanted to move closer to her growing family.

* Please note that any prescription medication that is to be given at school MUST have a medication form (available on this website) signed by the prescribing doctor and a parent. This is a district policy!! These forms must be filled out each school year.

IMMUNIZATIONS:

All immunizations must be translated to English. Houston's department of Health can do the translations for you:

  http://www.houstontx.gov/health/HealthCenters/index.html

 Immunization clinics available:            *Parent must bring shot records or request from the school nurse.    

                                        http://www.springbranchisd.com/admin/health/resources/resources.htm

All immunization must be turned in on time to the clinic. Students will have notices sent home before the due date as reminders. After the due date the child will be excluded from school until the immunizations have been given. Please note that these absences will be unexcused. Please feel free to get the immunizations after the first reminder!! Please bring all shot records to the clinic directly. Sometimes they get misplaced when sent through the front offices.

                                            MEDICATION FORMS:

Parent's Statement for Word | PDF
Administration of Non-Prescription Medication

Physician's Statement for Word | PDF                 *Requires Doctor's and parent's signature
Administration of Prescription Medication  

 Hand Held Inhaler Form- See Mrs. Jenkins       *Must be turned in to take inhaler on any field trip  *Requires Dr. signature

All medications must be brought to the clinic before school starts for the day with the proper paperwork. Students found carrying medication will be in trouble. This includes cough drops.  All prescription medication given three times a day (every 8 hours) or less may not be given at school. These should be given before school, after school, and at bed time. This is a district rule. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Jenkins with any medication questions before sending your child to school with medication!  Medications for overnight field trips must be provided from home. Medications from the clinic will not be sent.  Also, all medications must have instructions written in English.

                                    SCREENINGS:

                                    WAIS screenings include:

    Hearing, Vision, Pre-Diabetes- 7th grade       Scoliosis- 6th Grade           Scoliosis- 9th Grade      

                                            All Screenings- New Students to SBISD

Screenings are required by the state. If you would like to have your personal physician do the screenings please feel free to contact me to get the proper paperwork before you go to the doctor. If your child is screened and referred please have your doctor fill out the form and return them to the clinic. Three referrals will be sent home if no forms are returned. Please let Mrs. Jenkins know if your family needs assistance with paying for the vision exam/glasses.

* Please note that it is a state requirement that scoliosis screening must be done without a shirt to see the spine *

 

LOW COST HEALTH CLINICS:

Low cost Clinics:            

 

 

713-251-1800