The Webster City Community School District seeks to provide a safe environment for students, staff, and visitors who are at risk of potentially life-threatening incidents such as opioid overdose. Therefore, it is the policy of the District to annually obtain a prescription for an opioid antagonist from a licensed healthcare professional, in the name of the District, for administration by the School Nurse or personnel trained and authorized to administer to a student or individual who may be experiencing an acute opioid overdose.
The District will not maintain epi-pens or bronchodilators as a stock medication. Students with prescription epi-pens or bronchodilators shall be required to notify the School Nurse, and file a parent consent form with the School Nurse, who will approve storage of prescribed medications.
Procurement and maintenance of supply: The District shall stock a minimum of the following for each attendance center:
● One dose of opioid antagonist.
The supply of such medication shall be maintained by the School Nurse in a secure location in each school building.
The School Nurse shall routinely check stock of medication and document in a log monthly:
● The expiration date;
● Any visualized particles; or
● Color change.
Training: The School Nurse or personnel trained and authorized may provide or administer the medication listed in this policy from a school supply to a student or individual if the authorized personnel or School Nurse reasonably and in good faith believes the student or individual is having an opioid overdose. Training to obtain a signed certificate to become personnel authorized to administer an opioid antagonist shall consist of the requirements established by law.
Authorized personnel will be required to provide a procedural skills demonstration to the School Nurse demonstrating competency in the administration of stock opioid antagonists to retain authorization to administer these medications. A record of those trained will be maintained with the School Nurse, who shall develop and maintain a record of trained personnel and annual demonstration of administration practices.
● Failure to administer an opioid antagonist to a student or individual by proper route, failure to administer the correct dosage, or failure to administer an opioid antagonist according to generally accepted standards of practice (“medication error”).
Reporting: The District will contact emergency medical services (911) immediately after a stock opioid antagonist is administered to a student or individual. The School Nurse or authorized personnel will remain with the student or individual until emergency medical services arrive.
Within 48 hours, the School Nurse will report to the Iowa Department of Education:
● The administration of a stock opioid antagonist, and/or
● Each medication error with the administration of stock opioid antagonist.
As provided by law, the District, Board, authorized personnel or School Nurse, and the prescriber shall not be liable for any injury arising from the provision, administration, failure to administer, or assistance in the administration of an opioid antagonist provided they acted reasonably and in good faith.
Approved: November 2022
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