All NSU campus community members are encouraged to self-monitor for COVID-19 symptoms daily.
If you have COVID-19 symptoms
- Employees who have symptoms of COVID-19 should:
- Contact their health provider and follow the healthcare guidance of their heath provider. Relate to their health provider that they work on a campus and need to help prevent or slow the spread of COVID-19.
- Stay home and self-quarantine
- Inform roommates and/or family members with whom they share a residence and ask them to follow the What if I’ve been in Contact with Someone who is Sick? protocol.
- Immediately notify their supervisor.
- Students who are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 should:
- Self-quarantine in their residence.
- Inform roommates and/or family members with whom they share a residence and ask them to follow the What if I’ve been in Contact with Someone who is Sick? protocol.
- Contact a healthcare provider. If you use NSU’s on-campus Avera Health Services, please call 605-626-7694 (8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., Monday-Friday). After hours contact Avera St. Luke’s at 605-622-8690 or download the AveraNOW app (App Store, Google Play) to connect with a provider 24/7.
If you have been diagnosed with COVID-19
Employees who have tested positive for COVID-19:
- Employees who have a positive COVID-19 test or are confirmed by their health provider as having COVID-19 must:
- Immediately notify their supervisor, as well as Susan Bostian in NSU Human Resources.
- Isolate in their residence or a location approved by their healthcare provider for isolation.
- Follow the healthcare guidance of their healthcare provider.
- Comply with the S.D. Department of Health contact tracing.
- Follow the guidance of the S.D. Department of Health Coronavirus Quarantine and Isolation Calculator.
Students who have tested positive for COVID-19:
- Students who reside off campus and who have a positive COVID-19 test or are confirmed by their health provider as having COVID-19 must:
- Isolate and return to their permanent residence or quarantine in their off-campus housing.
- Follow the healthcare guidance of their healthcare provider.
- Comply with the S.D. Department of Health contact tracing.
- Inform roommates and/or family members with whom they share a residence and ask them to follow the What if I’ve been in Contact with Someone who is Sick? protocol.
- Contact their faculty to arrange to continue classes remotely.
- Follow the guidance of the S.D. Department of Health Coronavirus Quarantine and Isolation Calculator.
- Self-report their positive case at this site.
- Students who reside on campus and who have a positive COVID-19 test or are confirmed by their health provider as having COVID-19 must:
- Isolate and return to their permanent residence or relocate to a quarantine room and begin the housing isolation process as instructed by Residence Life.
- Follow the healthcare guidance of their healthcare provider.
- Comply with the S.D. Department of Health contact tracing.
- Inform roommates and/or family members with whom they share a residence and ask them to follow the What if I’ve been in Contact with Someone who is Sick? protocol.
- Contact their faculty to arrange to continue classes remotely.
- Follow the guidance of the S.D. Department of Health Coronavirus Quarantine and Isolation Calculator.
- Self-report their positive case at this site.