Learning Team
Your child's learning team is composed of everyone who plays a part in your child's life at school, including the student, parents or guardians, teachers, and school nurse. Communication between all members of this team is vital to your child's success and well-being at school.
Each team member has specific responsibilities, as outlined below.1
Student
- Wear MedicAlert® bracelet
- Communicate concerns
- Report bleeding episodes
- Discuss physical limitations
- Avoid risk-taking behaviors
Parents or Guardians
- Make sure school has correct information
- Make sure student goes to school and completes assignments
- Communicate student's condition, activity, and treatment to school
- Discuss problems with appropriate personnel
- Advise school of appointments
- Obtain make-up work or arrange tutoring, as needed
- Provide infusion equipment and proper disposal of equipment when used at school
- Have an intermittent homebound school form signed and in place, if appropriate and necessary for school district
- Provide information and arrangements for student to do school work at home following an injury or bleed
Teachers
- Encourage early reporting of bleeds
- Inform parents of bleeding or injury, as appropriate
- Permit treatment of bleeds while student is at school
- Understand bruising caused by bleeding conditions
- Monitor school performance and note changes
- Stress importance of completing assignments on time
- Question undocumented absences
- Take physical limitations into consideration when determining appropriate activity for PE class (older students can determine self-limitation with activities)
- Include students in activities whenever possible
- Provide alternative activity so student may stay involved (example: get student involved in tennis rather than football)
- Promote abilities and successes, not inabilities
- Respect privacy and confidentiality
- Develop academic expectations based upon the student's abilities, not his limitations
School Nurse
- Provide first aid to student, if required, using standard precautions to prevent blood contamination
- Inform parents of healthcare concerns
- Respect privacy and confidentiality of student and family
- Do not give NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) or any aspirin-containing product to the student unless specifically prescribed by the student's physician, since these may contribute to bleeding
- Alleviate fears through educating people about conditions of hemophilia
Share information and answer questions about hemophilia (without naming the student) with staff and students on a "need to know" basis, respecting privacy and confidentiality
- Hemophilia – A School Kit. An educational program to support the quality of life and care of the hemophilia student. Baxter Healthcare Corporation (2005).
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