UNDESIGNATED EPIPEN AND INHALER

Pursuant to Public Act 100-0726 the school district may authorize the school nurse or trained personnel to provide an undesignated epinephrine auto-injector to any person that the school nurse believes in good faith is having an anaphylactic reaction or undesignated asthma medication to any person that the school nurse or trained personnel believes in good faith is having respiratory distress. Please note that each of Western Springs School District 101 health offices stock a supply of undesignated epinephrine auto-injectors and undesignated asthma medication with individual spacers. The school district and its employees and agents, including a physician, physician’s assistant or advanced practice registered nurse providing standing protocol and a prescription for the school’s epinephrine auto-injector and asthma medication, are to incur no liability or professional discipline, except for willful and wanton conduct, as a result of any injury arising from the administration of an epinephrine auto-injector or asthma medication, regardless of whether authorization was given by the individual’s physician, physician’s assistant or advanced practice registered nurse.