Board moves to adopt WASDA model language for health plans, renumbers school patrol policy

The Longview School Board addressed two policy items on April 27: a second reading of a policy about individualized health plans (medication administration/delegation) and a motion to renumber the district’s school patrol policy to align with WASDA numbering.

Superintendent Martha Cloninger said legal review recommended adopting the WASDA model policy for individual health plans, noting state law limits delegation of injections but contains a distinct allowance for specific health plans. District nurses recommended that any emergency plans be developed and inserted by school nurses into the policy. Cloninger reported the district has nurses in all but one health room and recommended adding specific language — "the plan will include emergency plans, which will be developed by school nurses" — before final approval. The board agreed to bring the revised language back for a third reading next month.

The board also voted to change the existing local school patrol policy numbering from 3425 to 6605 to conform with WASDA and state numbering conventions. A board member moved the renumbering, it was seconded, and members approved the change by voice vote; no substantive change to patrol procedures was described in the public record.

Board members asked follow‑up questions during both discussions about who would be trained to carry out delegated medical tasks, how non‑district designees would be handled in an emergency, and the district’s current staffing of nurses. Superintendent Cloninger answered that administration and nurses would review any medical action plan from a physician and that training would be required as spelled out in the model policy.

The medication/individual health plan text will return for a third reading with the recommended insertion specifying nurse‑developed emergency plans.