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the student has been cleared to resume sport activities. This note must be received by
the school nurse, documented in SIS, and placed in the student’s health file.
Parents/guardians need to understand what concussion is and what the recovery
phase may look like. An excellent information sheet for parents is available on
concussions; see Heads-Up on the CDC website:
http://www.concussiontreatment.com/images/CDC_Heads_Up_Fact_Sheet_Parents_Hig h_School.pdfReference:
Centers for Disease Control. Heads Up Schools, A Fact Sheet for School Nurses.
http://www.cdc.gov/headsup/pdfs/schools/tbi_factsheet_nurse-508-a.pdf .Centers for Disease Control. Injury Prevention and Control: Traumatic Brain
Injury.
http://www.cdc.gov/TraumaticBrainInjury/index.html .National Association of School Nurses, Position Statement, “Concussions – Role
of the School Nurse”, 2012. Available at:
http://www.nasn.org/PolicyAdvocacy/PositionPapersandReports/NASNPositionSta tementsFullView/tabid/462/ArticleId/218/Concussions-The-Role-of-the-School- Nurse-Adopted-January-2012 .G-2 Resources
Resources recommended and purchased by DoDEA for all school health offices
are listed in
Section I: I-2(Professional Library).