POLICY NUMBER: 5.3212.

PURPOSE AND EFFECT: To provide for supervising, assisting with, or conducting blood glucose monitoring of students with diabetes mellitus or recurrent hypoglycemia pursuant to Florida law.

SUMMARY: This proposed Policy implements and makes specific the provisions of Fla. Stat. § 232.465(2): Specifies the authority of non-medical school personnel to perform or assist with (after appropriate training) student blood glucose monitoring that has been ordered by the student's physician; gives parents/guardians the responsibility of notifying the school that the student will have a glucose monitoring device; authorizes staff development training as deemed appropriate by the Superintendent; requires an annual directive from the Superintendent to principals to remind them to notify school staff of students who will use monitoring devices; authorizes principals to designate at least two (2) personnel to be trained in accordance with the statute by one of the Florida-licensed medical professionals named therein; sets forth procedures for supervising or conducting such monitoring; provides for emergency care procedures in an individualized health care plan or 504 plan; limits liability consistent with § 232.46(2) and Board Policy 5.321.

SPECIFIC RULEMAKING AUTHORITY: §§ 230.22(2); 230.23(22); 232.46, Fla. Stat.

LAWS IMPLEMENTED: §§ 230.23(6); 232.46(2); 232.465, Fla. Stat.

SUMMARY OF STATEMENT OF ESTIMATED REGULATORY COST (IF ONE HAS BEEN PREPARED): None. Any person who wishes to provide information regarding a statement of estimated regulatory costs, or to provide a proposal for a lower cost regulatory alternative, must do so in writing within 21 days of the publication of this Notice.

TEXT OF PROPOSED POLICY: Is available from the District's web site at www.SchoolBoardPolicies.com/revisions.htm (or from Office of Public Affairs, 3336 Forest Hill Blvd. Ste. B-102, West Palm Beach, FL 33406).

CONTACT PERSON: Ronald Armstrong or Lashandra Span, Student Services, 3308 Forest Hill Blvd. C-143, West Palm Beach, FL 33406.

PERSONS ORIGINATING THE PROPOSED POLICY: Debbie Neeson, Lashandra Span, and the School Health Advisory Committee’s Diabetes Subcommittee.

SUPERVISOR OR PERSON WHO APPROVED THE PROPOSED POLICY: Dr. Art Johnson.

DATE PROPOSED POLICY WAS APPROVED BY THE SCHOOL BOARD: June 17, 2002.

PROPOSED POLICY DEVELOPMENT NOTICE WAS PUBLISHED: June 10, 2002, in The Palm Beach Post.

HEARING INFORMATION: Adoption of the proposed Policy is expected to be considered at the School Board's Special Meeting on Policies on August 5, 2002 in the Board Chambers at 3300 Forest Hill Blvd., West Palm Beach, Fla. The meeting is open to the public.