Florida’s School Health Program provides professional staff and school-based health services to ensure students are healthy, in the classroom, and ready to learn. The School Health Program is established by Florida Statutes and is a collaborative effort of the Florida Department of Health, Department of Education, and Santa Rosa County School District personnel.
The school health nursing staff requires expertise in pediatrics, public health, and mental health. Health promotion, assessment, and referral skills are also an integral component of the role.
The school nurse provides health screenings to students and faculty, handles chronic disease education, creates individualized nursing plans for students with special health care concerns, helps develop guidelines for school policies, and serves as a liaison between school and community health care needs.
School Health Resources
Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child
The ten components of this strategy, when looked at in a coordinated manner, have been shown to be highly effective in facilitating the creation of policies and environments that provide students and staff the opportunity to reach their personal potential by removing health related barriers to academic success.
Healthy Schools: E-Learning Series Training Tools
The Training Tools for Healthy Schools: Promoting Health and Academic Success e-learning series consists of four core training tools. Each module is 1-1.5 hours.
SHAPE America – Society of Health and Physical Educators
The organization’s extensive community includes a diverse membership of health and physical educators, as well as advocates, supporters, and 50+ state affiliate organizations.
OPEN – Physical Education Curriculum
Serves as a centralized educational ecosystem serving educators, coaches, parents and students.
Privacy of Student Health Records
Student records and reports; rights of parents and students; notification; penalty
Section 1002.22, F.S.
This purpose of this section is to protect the rights of students and their parents with respect to student records and reports as created, maintained, and used by public educational institutions in the state.
Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
20 U.S.C. § 1232g and regulations 34 C.F.R. § 99
FERPA defines and provides privacy protections for educational records when such records are held by educational institutions that receive federal funds. FERPA defines education records as those records, files, documents and other materials that contain information directly related to a student and that are maintained by an educational agency or institution.
U.S. Department of Education
- Joint Guidance on the Application of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1966 (HIPAA) to Student Health Records
- FERPA
- FERPA Guidance for Students
Florida Department of Education
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Public Law 104-191
HIPAA is intended to promote the confidentiality of individually identifiable health information and mandates that covered entities and providers engaged in certain types of transactions comply with the privacy requirements of the rule.