Medications

It may be necessary for your child to receive medication during the school day. Our school district requires that the following forms must be on file in your child’s health record before we begin to give any medicine at school:

1. Signed consent by the parent or guardian to give the medicine. Please complete the enclosed consent form and give it to your school nurse.

2. Signed medication order. The written medication order form should be taken to your child’s licensed prescriber (your child’s physician, nurse practitioner, etc.) for completion and returned to the school nurse. This order must be renewed as needed and at the beginning of each academic year. Please download it here.

Medicines must be delivered to the school in a pharmacy or manufacturer-labeled container by you or a responsible adult whom you designate. Please ask your pharmacy to provide separate bottles for school and home. No more than a thirty-day supply of the medicine should be delivered to the school.

When your child needs a medicine to be given during the school day, please act quickly to follow these policies so we may begin to give the medicine as soon as possible.

MPS Medication Policy and Procedures

• Medication Policies and Procedures
• Parent/Guardian Authorization for Prescription Medication Administration
• Medication Letter