When to call
You woke up with a fever and a sore throat and don't know if it's worth an appointment; a cut looks deep; a medication is causing a side effect. The nurse works through standardized questions and gives a recommendation — self-care, an appointment tomorrow, urgent care today, or the emergency room now — plus what to watch for.
How it fits
The advice line doesn't diagnose or prescribe; it routes you to the right place and saves an unnecessary trip or catches something that shouldn't wait. During Student Health hours it can also book you the next available slot.
In and around Porter Falls
The Porter Student Help Desk in Founders Union 118 is the single place to start when it is not obvious which office owns a question.
The practical details
Staffed by: Registered nurses, around the clock. Use it for: Symptom triage, home-care guidance, and whether to be seen and how soon. Free: No charge to call; included for all enrolled students. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Porter Student Help Desk (Founders Union, Room 118). Call (715) 555–0120 or email help@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.