Health Office
Welcome to the Hanover High School Health Office Site!
The HHS Health Office is open 5 days a week, on scheduled school days. This is a busy office which services the student body, teachers, and staff members.
Our Staff:
Kathryn Bonyai, Candace Nattie and Lynn McRae
Candace Nattie, Kathryn Bonyai and Lynn McRae are all Registered Nurses who manage the operation of the Health Office. We work as a team to provide the HHS population with supportive health car throughout the school year. Our responsibilities include (but not limited to) the following:
- Assessment, and referral if needed, of illnesses, injuries and infectious diseases.
- Health screenings of vision, hearing, blood pressure, height, and weight.
- Annual Staff and Student Influenza Clinics
- Coordination and operation of the HHS Concussion Management Program, for students who sustain a concussion during the school year.
- Dispensing prescription and over-the-counter medications, as needed.
- Maintaining student immunization records and state reporting of compliance.
- Providing disease surveillance, and reporting infectious diseases to the State of NH when appropriate (i.e. Influenza).
- Ongoing health counseling, including stress reduction.
Our services are coordinated with the Hanover High School Health Education and Counseling programs. Our goal is to assist students to make healthy life-style choices, to learn to take responsibility for their health, and to become advocates for their own health care needs.
Please feel free to contact us at any time if your child has any changes in their health status. We want to work with students, families, and the school staff to make sure your adolescent's health care needs are being met in the school setting.
IMMUNIZATION
CONCUSSIONS
How It Works
- Concussion is diagnosed by a physician. MD note is provided to HHS Health Office.
- Parent or athletic department notifies the HHS School Nurses.
- With parental consent to participate in Chalk Talk, the School Nurses inform teachers and relevant staff members about the injury, and initiates the Return to Learn protocol.
- School Nurses assess your child’s symptoms on a daily basis at the start of each school day, and report back to parents and teachers which color phase of Return to Learn the student will be for that day. Phase progression is determined by lessening concussion symptoms, as well as student input.
- School Nurses will send an electronic BoWI (a simple “better or worse” form) to parents and teachers each day, to give feedback about how you/they think your child is doing with his/her progression.
- The student will progress through the Return To Learn color phases until completion.
- Once the student completes the Return to Learn protocol, the student is referred to the HHS Athletic Trainer to begin the gradual Return to Play protocol which may include Impact Testing (reviewed by Dr. Lichtenstein).
- Prior to returning to sports/Physical Education, the student must have an MD note stating they are ready to participate in sports. The MD note is to be sent to HHS Health Office. It may also be FAX’d to (603)643-0661, ATTN: Health Office.
Please contact the Health Office if you have any questions. (603) 643-3431 Ext 2125
The HHS School Nurses - Kathryn Bonyai, Candace Nattie & Lynn McRae