Title III: Other regulated pharmaceutical products and substances

The nurse will seek out the most appropriate methods, depending on the age and personality of the pupil, in order to inform her of the various possibilities for emergency contraception and to point her in the direction of existing facilities for obtaining such medication: pharmacy, planning centre or family education centre. The nurse may administer emergency contraception to the student concerned in order to prevent an unwanted pregnancy. The nurse…

The administration of this medication is recorded in writing by the nurse, dated and signed in the “nurse’s notebook” or another document provided for this purpose in the school. At the end of each school year, the nurse, regardless of the school in which he or she works, will draw up and send a report to the technical adviser to the education inspector for schools under the authority of the…

The nurse will organise follow-up for each pupil to whom emergency contraception has been administered. In all cases, it is the nurse’s responsibility to ensure that the pupil receives psychological support and medical follow-up from a planning or family education centre, or from a general practitioner or specialist, in order to : 1° Ensuring that emergency contraception is effective, in particular by recommending a pregnancy test when periods are late;…

University and inter-university student health services supply students with emergency contraception drugs under the following conditions: 1° Medicines are issued and administered free of charge to students; 2° In the case of medicines for which a doctor’s prescription is compulsory, these are prescribed and may be dispensed and administered by a doctor or midwife; they may also be dispensed and administered by a nurse working in the service on the…