Undesignated Medications

This is to notify you that Sherrard School District may maintain a supply of:

Undesignated Asthma Medication (Albuterol Inhaler) which may be administered by school nurse or trained personnel, when they, in good faith believe a person is having respiratory distress. Respiratory distress may be characterized as mild-to-moderate to severe. Sherrard School District is participating in the State of Illinois' Undesignated Emergency Asthma Medications Program.

Undesignated Epinephrine injection which may be administered by school nurse or trained personnel, when they it, good faith, believe a person is having an anaphylactic reaction.

Undesignated Opiod Antagonists (Nasal Spray) which may be administered by school nurse or trained personnel, when they in good faith, believe a person is having an opiod overdose.

Parents/Guardians will be notified when emergency medications are administered.

Parents/Guardians of students should not rely on the District for the availability of undesignated medications. Nor does this guarantee the availability of undesignated medications.

When a school nurse or trained personnel administers an undesignated epinephrine auto-injector to a person whom the school nurse or trained personnel in good faith believes is having an anaphylactic reaction, administers an opioid antagonist to a person whom the school nurse or trained personnel in good faith believes is having an opioid overdose, or administers undesignated asthma medication to a person whom the school nurse or trained personnel in good faith believes is having respiratory distress, not withstanding the lack of notice to the parents or guardians of the pupil or the absence of the parents or guardians signed statement acknowledging no liability, except for willful and wanton conduct, the school district,  public school and its employees and agents, and a  physician, a physician assistant, or an advance practice registered nurse providing standing protocol and a prescription for undesignated epinephrine auto-injectors, an opioid antagonist, or undesignated asthma medication, are to incur no liability or professional discipline, except for willful and wanton, conduct, as a result of any injury rising from the use of an undesignated epinephrine auto-injector, the use of an opioid antagonist, or the use of undesignated asthma medication, regardless of whether authorization was given by the pupil’s parents or guardians or by the pupil’s physician, physician assistant, or advanced practice registered nurse.