Glenwood Elementary
Glenwood Clinic
Kimberly Hartsock, our School Nurse, is a Registered Nurse and has been at Glenwood Elementary for 5 years. Betty Montazami is our Clinic Assistant.
The clinic at Glenwood has a private phone line for easy access-471-5808.
Please provide updated emergency contact information to include medical conditions and allergies, as well as new home, cell, or work phone numbers.
Notify the clinic if your child has any health problems that may affect activities in school. Medication must be given in the clinic. A signed school medication form must be completed and signed by the doctor and parent or guardian. An adult must bring medication to the clinic. Prescription medication should be in the original bottle. Over the counter medication should be in a new sealed container.
Check the Virginia Beach Schools Student Health Services Information website for important information on many medical issues related to school.
Health Screening
We provide Health Screening to include the following:
Grades Kindergarten-5 th grade-height, weight, dental, and hair
Grades Kindergarten,3 rd and5th-VA State mandated vision and hearing
Grade 1 st- local mandate on vision and hearing
Grade 5th-Scoliosis, with parental permission.
School Health
It is sometimes very hard to tell if your child is sick. Here are some rules for keeping your child at home.
- Your child’s temperature is 100 degrees or more for the past 4hrs. without medication such as Tylenol or Motrin.
- Persistent heavy nasal drainage or cough
- Skin rash or eruption that has not been diagnosed
- Vomiting or nauseated
- Diarrhea or more than one abnormally loose stool in 24 hrs.
- Difficulty or rapid breathing
- If child is not “acting like himself” and you don’t know why
- Any communicable disease, such as strep throat, pink eye, chickenpox.
Returning to School:
- If your child has been fever free for 24 hrs.
- Your child’s doctor days he/she is not contagious
- Your child is safely past the incubation pd. Of a communicable disease
Hand washing is the best way to prevent the spread of germs. A great way to for children to learn about hand washing and having fun doing it is to go on the following web site www.scrubclub.org/home.aspx
Glenwood Clinic