Requests for the administration of medications by school personnel may be made as follows (in accordance with Education Code 22.052):  

A physician’s signature is required to administer ALL medication, including prescription and over-the-counter medication.* 

A separate request form is to be completed for each medication, and a new request made for changes in condition/reason for giving medications and/or dosages. 

ALL medicine MUST be in the ORIGINAL, PROPERLY LABELED container, accompanied by a PARENT/PHYSICIAN  MEDICATION REQUEST FORM. This form can be found on our district webpage or contact your campus nurse. Please ask your pharmacist to dispense two labeled bottles of medication: one for home and one for school. Changes in dosages, time, or medication use will require a new physician order and parent/physician request form. 

ALL medications must be brought up to the school by a parent or guardian. For safety reasons, medications may not be sent in a child's backpack. 

Only those medications that cannot be given outside school hours will be administered. Most three-times-a-day medication can be given before and after school. (Prescriptions can be written so that doses are not necessary during school hours. Please discuss this with your doctor.) 

Prescribed school medications are distributed in the health room/office (or at an alternate location at the discretion of the nurse and administration). Please encourage your child to take the responsibility to go to the health room at the prescribed time. Students may carry prescribed emergency medication such as EpiPen or Inhaler ONLY with parent AND physician permission. 

Students will be given non-prescription, over-the-counter (OTC) medicine by school personnel only with a doctor’s signature. See our updated Medication Administration Form on our district webpage or you can get with the campus nurse. School medications are distributed in the health room (or an alternate location at the discretion of the nurse and administration). Please encourage your child to take the responsibility to go to the health room at the prescribed time. 

Students may not carry ANY medications on them or in their backpack. The only exception would be for those students who require an inhaler or EpiPen AND have signed consent from their physician AND parent to do so. 

No dietary supplements, herbal remedies, vitamins, performance boosters, essential oils, etc., are allowed on school campuses or at school activities. Any exceptions to this will be as required by the IEP or section 504 plan of a student with disabilities and only after discussion with the student’s doctor, parents and school nurse. Any medicine other than the original container is considered contraband, subjecting the student to disciplinary measures.

A new prescription and medication permission form is required for every school year.

In accordance with Title 22 of the Texas Administrative Code Section 217.11(N), the school nurse has the responsibility and authority to clarify any order or treatment regimen that the nurse has reason to believe is inaccurate, non-efficacious or contraindicated by consulting with the appropriate licensed practitioner and notifying the ordering practitioner when the nurse makes the decision not to administer the medication or treatment. 

At the end of the school year, unused medication that has not been picked up by parents/guardians will be discarded. 

Thank you for your cooperation and understanding in this matter. Student safety is our top priority at Caldwell ISD. Should you have any questions please contact your school campus nurse or administrators.