Clinic News

Welcome to the Clinic News Page for Reagan Middle School! My name is Nurse Megan and I am excited to start my 3rd year at Reagan MS. I am coming to you from 3 years of Emergency Room Nursing with experience in taking care of both adults and children. I am excited to be here and ready for the year ahead. If you have any questions about any health needs or otherwise, please reach out. We are going to have a great year!

Contact Mrs. Megan Deem, School Nurse
DeemMA@pwcs.edu or 571-402-3568

Student Health Services - Prince William County Public Schools (pwcs.edu)

Announcements

Medication Pick-Up:

All medications must be picked up from the school clinic by 12:00 pm on June 15. Medications not picked up will be discarded. No medications are held in the school clinics over the summer. New Medication Administration Forms and/or Health Treatment Plans are required each school year. Forms may be obtained from your school or the Student Health Services Website.

Please contact Nurse Deem with any questions.

Immunization Requirements for Rising 7th Grade Students:

The deadline for students to meet the immunization requirement for mandatory immunizations for public school enrollment is August 17, 2023. If proof of the required immunizations is not provided by August 17, 2023, the student will be excluded from school starting August 21, 2023, until the required immunization documentation has been provided to the school. If you have questions, please contact the school nurse or visit the immunization requirements webpage.

Meningococcal Conjugate (MenACWY) immunization and Tdap Booster are required for upcoming 7th grade students. If you have questions, please contact the school nurse or visit the immunization requirements webpage.

Immunizations can be obtained from your primary care doctor, the health department, or other health care facilities (CVS or urgent care facilities).

Immunization documentation may be faxed to 703-782-1638, scanned as a PDF file and emailed to deemMA@pwcs.edu or dropped off at Reagan Middle School Monday-Friday 8AM-4PM. 

Prince William Health Department

9301 Lee Avenue
Manassas, VA 20110
703 792-6300

4001 Prince William Parkway, Suite 101
Woodbridge, VA 22193
703 792-7300

This website contains the full list of vaccine requirements for students on the Virginia Department of Health website:

Immunization Requirements for School

Important documents

Important documents needed for health plans, medications, exemptions, etc can be found via the Student Health Services Website.

Stop the Spread of Germs

According to the Center for Disease Control you can help stop the spread of disease by doing the following:

• Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
• Wash your hands often with soap and water. If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand rub .
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth. Germs spread this way.
• Try to avoid close contact with sick people.
• If you are sick with flu-like illness, CDC recommends that you stay home for at least 24 hours after your fever is gone except to get medical care or for other necessities. (Your fever should be gone without the use of a fever-reducing medicine.)
• While sick, limit contact with others as much as possible to keep from infecting them.
• See Everyday Preventive Actions [257 KB, 2 pages] (PDF) and Nonpharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) for more information about actions, apart from getting vaccinated and taking medicine, that people and communities can take to help slow the spread of illnesses like influenza (flu).

Keep your child home when?

Reasons for which a child may be sent home from school or for a parent to keep the child home from school per Prince William County Public Schools Regulation 757-1:

1. Fever of 100.4 ºF and over - exclude until student has been fever-free for at least 24 hours.
2. Conjunctivitis (pink eye), strep infections, ringworm, and impetigo are all infections and must be treated with medication for a minimum of 24 hours before returning to school. Please do not allow affected students back before this time so that other students are not infected unnecessarily.
3. Rash of unknown origin (especially if accompanied by a fever).
4. Head injury.
5. Severe coughing or difficulty breathing.
6. Colds - a child with thick or constant nasal discharge should remain home.
7. Diarrhea or vomiting - exclude until student has been symptom-free for at least 24 hours.
8. Abdominal pain that continues for more than 2 hours or intermittent abdominal pain associated with fever or other signs or symptoms.
9. Stiff neck associated with a fever and/or a recent injury.
10. Inadequate immunizations with known disease outbreak in school.
11. ***Refer to the Virginia Department of Health's "Communicable Disease Reference Chart for School Personnel" for other exclusions/information.