A program for annual inspection, in addition to those conducted by authorized agencies, of the equipment, facilities, and grounds will be conducted as part of the maintenance schedule for school district buildings and sites. The results of this inspection will be reported to the board at its annual meeting. Further, the board may conduct its own inspection of the school district buildings and sites annually.
Legal Reference: Iowa Code § 279.8
Cross Reference: 802 Maintenance, Operation and Management
The safety and security of the school community is paramount to Mid-Prairie. While there is no absolute guarantee of safety, it is the goal of the district to encourage and support physically secure learning and working environment within its buildings. The district shall work in conjunction with community stakeholders including local emergency management coordinators and local law enforcement agencies to create emergency operations plans for all district buildings and school buildings where students are educated.
The superintendent shall be responsible for the development, review and implementation of the district emergency operations plan. The plan shall include procedures for transmitting alerts regarding emergency situations to school personnel, students, and employers for non-school employees whose presence is regularly required in the school building. The emergency operations plan shall be updated and reviewed annually by the Board and shall address responses to natural disasters, active shooter scenarios and other emergencies as determined by the district. The emergency operations plans are confidential and shall not be subject to disclosure under Iowa Code Chapter 22. However, the district shall publish procedures for students, school personnel, parents, and family members to report possible safety threats on school grounds and at school activities.
The administration shall hold annual emergency operations drills at each district building covered by an emergency operation plan in accordance with law. The district shall determine which school personnel shall participate and whether local law enforcement and students participate in annual drills.
Legal Reference: Iowa Code § 100.31
Cross Reference: 507 Student Health and Well-Being
711.7 School Bus Safety Instruction
Friable and nonfriable asbestos containing materials will be maintained in good condition and appropriate precautions will be followed when the material is disturbed. If there is a need to replace asbestos it will be replaced with non-asbestos containing materials. Each school building will maintain a copy of the asbestos management plan.
The school district will annually notify, appoint and train appropriate employees as necessary.
Legal Reference: 20 U.S.C. §§ 3601 et seq.
40 C.F.R. Pt. 763.84
Iowa Code §§ 279.52-.54
Cross Reference: 403.4 Hazardous Chemical Disclosure
802 Maintenance, Operation and Management
The Mid-Prairie Community School District seeks to provide a safe environment for students, staff, and visitors who are at risk of potentially life-threatening incidents including severe allergic reactions, respiratory distress and opioid overdose. Therefore, it is the policy of the district to annually obtain a prescription for epinephrine auto-injectors, bronchodilator canisters and spacers and/or opioid antagonists from a licensed health care professional, in the name of the school district, for administration by a school nurse or personnel trained and authorized to administer to a student or individual who may be experiencing an anaphylactic reaction, respiratory distress or acute opioid overdose.
Procurement and maintenance of supply: The district shall stock a minimum of the following for each attendance center:
One pediatric dose and one adult dose epinephrine auto-injector;
One pediatric and one adult dose bronchodilator canister and spacer;
One dose naloxone or other opioid antagonist.
The supply of such medication shall be maintained in a secure, easily accessible area for an emergency within the school building, or in addition to other locations as determined by the school district.
Building school nurse shall routinely check stock of medication and document in a log monthly:
The expiration date;
Any visualized particles or color change for epinephrine auto-injectors;; or
Bronchodilator canister damage.
The employee shall be responsible for ensuring the district replaces, as soon as reasonably possible, any logged epinephrine auto-injector brochodilator canister or spacer or opioid antagonist that is empty after use, damaged or, close to expiration., The district shall dispose of stock medications and delivery devices in accordance with state laws and regulations.
Training: A school nurse or personnel trained and authorized may provide or administer any of 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 anaphylactic reaction, respiratory distress, asthma or other airway-constricting disease, or opioid overdose. Training to obtain a signed certificate to become personnel authorized to administer an epinephrine auto-injector, bronchodilator canister or spacer or opioid antagonist shall consist of the requirements of medication administration established by law and an annual anaphylaxis, asthma, other airway-constricting disease, opioid overdose training program approved by the Department of Education. .
Authorized personnel will be required to retake the medication administration course, training program and provide a procedural skills demonstration to the school nurse demonstrating competency in the administration of stock epinephrine auto-injectors, bronchodilator canisteror spacer or opioid antagonists to retain authorization to administer these medications if the following occur:
Failure to administer an epinephrine auto-injector , bronchodilator canister or spacer or opioid antagonist according to generally accepted standards of practice (“medication error”); or
Accidental injection injury to school personnel related to improperly administering the medication (“medication incident”).
Reporting: Authorized personnel will contact the school nurse or emergency medical services (911) immediately after a stock bronchodilator canister is administered to a student or individual. The school nurse retains accountability for professional nursing judgment with the administration of stock bronchodilator and whether to contact emergency medical services in accordance with Iowa laws.
The district will contact emergency medical services (911) immediately after a stock epinephrine auto-injector, or 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 district will report to the Iowa Department of Education:
Each medication incident with the administration of stock epinephrine, bronchodilator canister or spacer, or opioid antagonist;
Each medication error with the administration of stock epinephrine, bronchodilator canister or spacer, or opioid antagonist; or
The administration of a stock epinephrine auto-injector, bronchodilator canister or spacer, or 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 epinephrine auto-injector, bronchodilator canister or spacer, or opioid antagonist provided they acted reasonably and in good faith.
The superintendent may develop an administrative process to implement this policy.
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Iowa Code §§ 135.185; 190; 279.8. 281 I.A.C. 14.3. 655 I.A.C 6.2(2) |