Kinkaid Health Services

The Kinkaid School’s Health Services goal is to assist all students to maintain their health and support their success at school.  

The school nurses serve as public health advocates who provide nursing services to advance the well-being, academic performance, lifelong achievement, and health of students. According to the National Association of School Nurses, the school nurse does the following:

• Facilitates positive student responses to normal development
• Promotes health and safety including a healthy school environment
• Intervenes with actual and potential health problems
• Provides case management
• Actively collaborates with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self-management, self advocacy, health education and learning

The Kinkaid Health Services’ staff administers nursing services in two locations. The main Health Center is located in the Student Life Center and the satellite location is in the Lower School Administration Suite.

The Kinkaid Health Centers are staffed by a team of Registered Nurses who provide the following:

• Collect and analyze the Kinkaid  Student Health Form annually
• Maintains student immunization compliance
• Performs Texas state-required screenings
• Delivers first aid and emergency care utilizing nursing professional assessment skills
• Administers medications required for students to complete the school day
• Manages health conditions such as diabetes, asthma, food allergies, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), ADHD, seizures, etc
• Prepares student individual health plans and food allergy action plans, as needed
• Collaborates with parents, teachers, coaches, school counselors, administrators and health care providers to maintain students’ health and promote academic success
• Maintains Emergency Equipment such as AEDs, travel medical kits and disaster kits