Galloway Township Health Information for Staff 2020-2021
Topics Screenings - Staff & Students ❖ Exclusion Information & Risk Levels ❖ Contact, Quarantine, & Isolation Defined ❖ Sending Students to Nurse Office ❖ Preparing for Contact Tracing ❖ Protocols Shared with Families ❖ Healthy Habits ❖ Hand Washing & Hand Sanitizer ❖ Masks ❖ This presentation will be Disposal of PPE ❖ placed on the staff HIPAA & FERPA resource page for ❖ reference.
Coming to School Healthy - Staff and Students Screening at home before entering district buildings
COVID-19 Symptoms ● Similar to many illnesses ● There is not a single symptom predictive of COVID-19 ● Symptoms appear 2-14 days after exposure
Staff Screening - Via OnCourse Staff will complete the “Daily Health Screening” via OnCourse daily before arriving to work. ❏ Complete the screening ❏ Come to work if “approved” ❏ Contact your supervisor if “not approved” Resource: Travel Advisory List - Stay home if you have traveled to these areas.
Daily Student COVID-19 Screening for Students Parent(s)/Guardian(s) commitment to complete the daily health screening of their child(ren) will take place through the annual registration within OnCourse.
Risk Matrix - Updated Weekly Resource: Weekly COVID-19 Activity Reports
COVID-19 Exclusion Criteria
What is Contact? ● For COVID-19, a close contact is anyone who was within 6 feet of an infected person for at least 10 minutes. ○ Per episode - not cumulative ● An infected person can spread COVID-19 starting 48 hours (or 2 days) before the person had any symptoms or tested positive for COVID-19. ● You are still considered a close contact even if you were wearing a mask while you were around someone with COVID-19. ● If a student has a fever, siblings are not sent home unless they have symptoms.
What you need to know about contact tracing... ● Any student or staff member a student may have come in contact with. ○ Classroom ○ Bus ○ Other ● Information you will need to provide if a student in your classroom tests positive: ○ Close contacts ○ Seating assignment ○ If the student under investigation left the classroom (i.e. bathroom) ○ Times of mask breaks (breakfast, lunch)
Sending Students to the Health office ● Students sent to the health office will be ● The School Nurse will work with building administration, district administration and screened the Atlantic County Department of Health ● Students will be isolated if presenting with in the event of exposure symptoms of COVID-19 in a separate area ● Guidance on quarantine, isolation and any (isolation room) from health office possible closure will be followed based on ● Students will be sent home based on state guidelines (last updated Aug 13, guidelines from the school physician 2020) health orders, NJ Dept of Health and CDC https://www.state.nj.us/health/cd/documents/topics/NC OV/RecommendationsForLocalHealthDepts_K12Scho guidelines ols.pdf
How to Send SICK and WELL Students to the Health office ● Complete the “Nurse Pass” form and check off the symptoms/reasons the child needs to see the nurse. ● Call the nurse office BEFORE you send the student to the nurse office. ( Minimizes exposure of sick students to well students. And vice versa.) ● If the nurse does not answer, contact the main office who will contact the nurse. ● Scheduled Nurse Visits: If you have preset visits for a child to the nurse office, you do not need to call the nurse office. The nurse will contact you if the child should not report.
Protocols shared with families...
Frequently asked questions about handwashing from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
How Germs Spread Washing hands can keep you healthy and prevent the spread of respiratory and diarrheal infections from one person to the next. Germs can spread from other people or surfaces when you: ● Touch your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands ● Prepare or eat food and drinks with unwashed hands ● Touch a contaminated surface or objects ● Blow your nose, cough, or sneeze into hands and then touch other people’s hands or common objects
HANDWASHING - Follow Five Steps to Wash Your Hands the Right Way 1. Wet your hands with clean, running water (warm or cold), turn off the tap, and apply soap. 2. Lather your hands by rubbing them together with the soap. Lather the backs of your hands, between your fingers, and under your nails. 3. Scrub your hands for at least 20 seconds. Need a timer? Hum the “Happy Birthday” song from beginning to end twice. 4. Rinse your hands well under clean, running water. 5. Dry your hands using a clean towel or air dry them.
Key Times to Wash Hands During the COVID-19 pandemic, you should also clean hands : ● Before, during, and after preparing food ● After you have been in a ● Before eating food public place and touched an ● Before and after caring for someone at home who item or surface that may be frequently touched by other is sick with vomiting or diarrhea people, such as door handles, ● Before and after treating a cut or wound tables, gas pumps, shopping ● After using the toilet carts, or electronic cashier ● After changing diapers or cleaning up a child who registers/screens, etc. has used the toilet ● Before touching your eyes, ● After blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing nose, or mouth because ● After touching an animal, animal feed, or animal that’s how germs enter our bodies. waste ● After handling pet food or pet treats ● After touching garbage
Hand Sanitizer
Hand Sanitizer Do’s and Don'ts DO DON’T ✅ Use if soap and water are not available ✖ DO NOT use hand sanitizer if your hands are visibly dirty or greasy. ✅ Use after blowing your nose, coughing or ✖ DO NOT rinse or wipe off hand sanitizer; sneezing allow it to dry ✅ Use after touching surfaces such as doorknobs ✖ DO NOT allow young children under 6 to or railings use hand sanitizer, unless supervised; swallowing hand sanitizer in even small ✅ Use before and after visiting someone at risk or amounts can cause alcohol poisoning (call 911 is sick or poison control) ✖ DO NOT use hand sanitizer after using the ✅ Use before you eat bathroom as it does not kill certain germs that can cause diarrhea
Coughing and Sneezing Covering coughs and sneezes and keeping hands clean can help prevent the spread of serious respiratory illnesses like influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), whooping cough, and COVID-19. Germs can be easily spread by: ● Coughing, sneezing, or talking ● Touching your face with unwashed hands after touching contaminated surfaces or objects ● Touching surfaces or objects that may be frequently touched by other people
Teaching Children to Cover their Cough/Sneeze
MASKS Your mask may protect them. Their mask may protect you.
Students are required to wear face coverings, unless doing so would inhibit the student’s health. It is necessary to acknowledge that enforcing the use of face coverings may be impractical for young children or individuals with disabilities. PPE Exemption District office has emailed all parents/guardians a “PPE Mask Exemption Form”. Parents who complete this form MUST submit a doctor note documenting the recommendation. Meetings will take place at each school (ie: CST or 504) upon the receipt of a note to make the final determination.
Who also should NOT use masks... • Children under age 2, due to the risk of suffocation • The student is in extreme heat outdoors or is in water. • During the period that a student is eating or drinking. • Face coverings should not be placed on anyone who has trouble breathing or is unconscious, or anyone who is incapacitated or otherwise unable to remove the face covering without assistance (e.g. face coverings should not be worn by Pre-K students during nap time). • The student is engaged in high intensity aerobic or anaerobic activities. • Face coverings may be removed during gym and music classes when individuals are in a well-ventilated location and able to maintain a physical distance of six feet apart. • When wearing a face covering creates an unsafe condition in which to operate equipment or execute a task.
Wear your Mask to Cover your Mouth and Nose! Keep an eye out for… “mask-swapping”.
Recommended GAITERS Masks with Vents Masks Not prohibited, but NOT NOT Allowed - Prohibited recommended Choose masks that… Neck gaiters are not as -have two or more layers. effective as masks with two -completely cover nose and or more layers. Masks with exhalation mouth. valves or vents allow -fit snugly and don’t have Effectiveness of gaiters is particles to escape. gaps. unknown at this time.
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