Hello Roadrunner Families!

I am so excited to be returning for my 3rd year at Camino Real Elementary. I graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. I started my career working on the Mother/Baby unit at Seton Medical Center. Over the course of my 7 years there, I also became a breastfeeding educator. After staying home with my children for several years, I then transitioned to working in an OB/GYN office setting. In my free time, I enjoy spending time with my family exploring local restaurants in the Austin area. I am looking forward to a wonderful school year.

My role as a school nurse is to support our student's education by promoting and maintaining good health, as well as taking care of acute injury and illness as it occurs. School nurses perform required health screenings, monitor state-mandated immunizations, and maintain the school population's health through identification of potentially communicable diseases.

¡Hola, familias de Roadrunner!

Estoy muy emocionada de regresar para mi tercer año en la Escuela Primaria Camino Real. Me gradué de la Universidad de Texas en Austin con una Licenciatura en Enfermería. Comencé mi carrera trabajando en la unidad Maternoinfantil del Centro Médico Seton. Durante mis 7 años allí, también me convertí en educadora de lactancia materna. Después de varios años cuidando a mis hijos en casa, pasé a trabajar en un consultorio de ginecología. En mi tiempo libre, disfruto pasar tiempo con mi familia explorando restaurantes locales en el área de Austin. Espero con ansias un maravilloso año escolar.

Mi función como enfermera escolar es apoyar la educación de nuestros estudiantes promoviendo y manteniendo una buena salud, así como atendiendo lesiones y enfermedades agudas en cuanto se presenten. Las enfermeras escolares realizan las evaluaciones de salud obligatorias, supervisan las vacunas obligatorias por el estado y mantienen la salud de la población escolar mediante la identificación de enfermedades potencialmente transmisibles.

Margarette Velázquez: BSN, RN

Medication reminder: If a student requires medication at school, please have a medical authorization completed and signed by parents and a physician. Medication Authorizations can be found here:

• Medication Authorization (English/Spanish)

Please do not send medication into the students’ pockets or belongings for them to take later. Medications must be kept in the nurse's office. Any medications to be administered at school will need parent and physician authorization, must be unexpired, and must come with their original prescription label.

• All students with asthma, severe allergies, and those who have seizures will need an updated asthma action plan, seizure action plan, and/or allergy action plan from their physician for this school year. If your student has seizures, we will also need the seizure questionnaire form to be filled out. Please use the links below to find these forms:

  • Asthma Action Plan (English/Spanish)

  • Seizure Action Plan (English/Spanish)

  • Food Allergy Action Plan (English/Spanish)

  • Non Food Allergy Action Plan

  • Seizure Questionnaire
    

• Health screenings are required by Texas state law. Each year we have school wide vision and hearing screenings for PreK, Kinder, 1st, 3rd, 5th as well as students that need a screen for other reasons. We also screen for Acanthosis Nigricans in 1st, 3rd, and 5th grade. In the fall, we screen for Scoliosis in 5th grade girls. Please email me if you have questions or if your child loses/breaks their glasses and you need help getting a new exam/pair.

• Immunizations: All students must be up to date on vaccines or have a current, valid exemptions form on file. If your student receives immunizations throughout the school year, please forward updated immunizations records to the nurse.

  Community resources for immunizations:

  • Hays County Health Department

  • Christus Trinity Clinic

• Wellness: Please keep your child home for a temperature of 100 or higher, vomiting or diarrhea. Your child may return once they are 24 hours free of fever/vomiting/diarrhea without the use of any fever reducing, antidiarrheal, or antiemetic medications.

• If you need medical insurance, food, transportation assistance, please check out https://www.findhelp.org/

• Students with no insurance but needing medical care can be seen by Lirios Pediatrics on South Congress in Austin. Follow the link for more information https://www.liriospediatrics.org/

Margarette Velazquez, RN
Camino Real Elementary School
(512) 268-8505, EXT. 42405
Email Margarette Velazquez