School Health Services
At Princeton City Schools, school health offices are located in each school and staffed with Princeton
licensed school nurses, registered nurses, licensed practical nurses or school health aides. School health
services are provided to remove or minimize health-related barriers to learning, promote wellness, and
help our students maintain a good state of health. Student health and safety are important to all of us at
Princeton. Although parents have the basic responsibility for the health of their children, Princeton’s
school health services and staff work to assist families and health care providers in promoting and
maintaining wellness and readiness to learn.
Our goals include the following:
Assist students with prescribed treatment and medication compliance including emergency
medication, diabetes management, and Epi-pen administrations
Maintain accurate student health records
Provide health screening, referrals, and follow-up services
Maintain up-to-date information and referrals regarding communicable diseases and other student
health records
Provide traditional school nurse services for students’ health screenings, vision screenings and
hearing screenings
Make contacts and support students during the need for urgent or emergency health services, until
the parent or EMS arrives on the scene
Facilitate consents for referrals to the Viking School Based Health Center
Work collaboratively with building staff in the identification, intervention, and follow-up of students
at risk
Our school health office staff provides screening programs, health counseling, and education,
communicable disease control, first aid and safety, and family assistance.
To support the health and wellness of our students, we ask that parents and guardians share
information with our school health staff regarding student health history, serious illness, accidents, the
presence of a fracture, the need for stitches, mental health issues, and additional screenings a student
may need.