NASN President Kate King participated in a back-to-school segment on the TODAY Show yesterday to discuss her five tips for families with students returning to school to promote health, safety, and readiness to learn. Watch the TODAY Show segment.

King also offered expert back-to-school health advice on the Town Square podcast with Ernie Manouse last week, sharing valuable information on immunizations, School Located Vaccine (SLV) clinics, proper nutrition, and more. Listen now.

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NASN is calling for presentation submissions for NASN2024, Stronger Together, June 28 - July 1, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. The deadline for submissions is October 13, 2023, at noon ET. We seek evidence-based conference submissions that support the NASN2024 learning outcomes and incorporate learner-centered strategies. Review a list of possible topics of interest.

New in 2024, all submissions must include a discussion on Diversity, Equity, and/or Inclusion related to the submitted topic. In addition, they must briefly discuss the topic’s connection to NASN’s Framework for 21st Century School Nursing Practice™. Lastly, all presentations must be presented or co-presented by a school nurse to embody or demonstrate the application of the topic content to school nursing.

Each of the five social determinants of health is equally important; however, education directly correlates with good health and social mobility; it is the great equalizer. The Journal of School Nursing (JOSN) free access article, Education Is a Social Determinant of Health: School Nurses Level the Playing Field, documents that school nurses are vital to the nation's public health infrastructure and the need for a national policy ensuring a stable funding mechanism for school nurses to ensure all children have the opportunity to excel academically.

• Additional NASN Resources: NASN believes every student should attend school in a safe, supportive, and equitable environment. View our Safe, Supportive, Equitable Schools position statement.

JOSN and NASN School Nurse journal access is among the many NASN member benefits. Sign up for New Content alerts for JOSN and NASN School Nurse and receive notifications when the latest issues are released, and new articles are published online.

Listen to the JOSN August Podcast, where Martha Dewey Bergren, editor of JOSN, interviews author Krista Schroeder to discuss the article "The Association of School Nurse Workload With Student Health and Academic Outcomes: A Cross-Sectional Study."

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This section highlights news stories featuring NASN and school nurses. If you have a story about school nurses you'd like us to consider including, please send it to us.

• Opinion: The Question Every Parent Should Ask Before School Starts (Source: edition.cnn.com)
• The Inside Scoop: Keeping Healthy with Melanie Bales (Source: cobbk12.org)
• The Relentless School Nurse: A New School Nurse’s Experience with Sudden Cardiac Arrest (Source: relentlessschoolnurse.com)
• Springfield Public Schools Have Nurses in Every School for a Reason That’s More Than Treating Cuts and Colds (Source: ky3.com)
• Polluted Skies and High Heat Expose School Facility Issues, Threaten Students’ Health (Source: edweek.org)
• Experts Say Get Back to School Vaccines Now Before It’s Too Late (Source: youtube.com)
• School Nurses Unite: New NYSUT Program Connects School Nurses Across the State (Source: nysut.org)
• ECSNA Member Spotlight Congratulations Dr. Cynthia Samuel, PHD, RN, Csn-Nj (Source: shoutout.wix.com)
• MCSD Urging Students to Get Meningococcal Vaccine Before Classes Resume (Source: timesrepublican.com)

Visit NASN's Diabetes in Children page, offering resources to assist school nurses in providing evidence-based quality care to students with type 1 diabetes (T1D). There you'll find NASN's School Nursing Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline: Students with Type 1 Diabetes which provides practice recommendations and strategies to improve the health and safety of the school-age child with T1D, School Nursing Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline: Students with Type 1 Diabetes Toolkit to help school nurses implement those recommendations and more.

• Additional NASN Resources: Stay up to speed on diabetes technologies with Danatech. NASN is proud to collaborate with the Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists (ADCES) to bring Danatech to NASN members, and access is free.

Call for Abstracts: 2024 Preparedness Summit

The 2024 Preparedness Summit, to be held March 25-28, 2024, in Cleveland, OH, is now accepting abstracts. The theme is Public Health, Healthcare, and Emergency Management: Aligning to Address Cascading Challenges, which provides an opportunity for sectors to come together, align missions, and discover better ways to work as true partners to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow. Learn more, submit an abstract, and bring your school nurse experiences, research findings, best practice training models, tools, or other resources to the forefront by September 15.

Allergy & Asthma Network is hosting a free webinar on August 23 at 4 p.m. ET to teach how to handle asthma attacks in schools. Register for the webinar. They also offer Managing Asthma in School: A Guide for Parents that school nurses can share with their school communities.

• NASN Resources: Visit NASN's Asthma page for asthma-related resources and guidelines. You can also check out the NASN NCPD program Evidence-Based Decision Making - "As-Needed" Inhaled Corticosteroid Therapy for Pediatric Asthma.

CMS has just released the School-Based Communications Toolkit. Education and early education professionals can use this toolkit to help share information about Medicaid and CHIP renewals with families. The toolkit includes ready-to-use resources, such as letters to staff and families, social media messages, robocall scripts, and more.

The U.S. Department of Education is hosting the Miniseries on Supporting Students’ Social, Emotional, Behavioral, and Academic Well-Being and Success as part of the Lessons from the Field Webinar Series, designed to enhance state and district implementation of the Guiding Principles for Creating Safe, Inclusive, Supportive, and Fair School Climates to ensure that all students can learn in safe, inclusive, supportive, and fair environments. The next event, Strategies for School and District Leaders, is on August 23. Register to participate in this miniseries.

Deadline to Earn NCPD for Both

In-Person and Virtual NASN2023

October 12

Assess and evaluate sessions you attended to earn NCPD contact hours.

• Steps to receive NCPD contact hours.

• Assess/Evaluate In-Person sessions.

• Assess/Evaluate Virtual sessions.

Presentation Submissions Deadline:

October 13

NASN invites you to submit an oral or poster presentation for In-Person or Virtual NASN2024! 

Learn more and submit.

• School Nurse Organization of Washington Fall Conference - Growth from Change - October 13-14, 2023. Learn more and Register

• Illinois Association of School Nurses 66th Annual Conference - Building for the Future: Emergency Preparedness, Advocacy, and Leadership - October 20-21, 2023. Learn more

• Save the Date: School Nurse Organization of Minnesota Fall Conference - November 3-4, 2023. Learn more



• Save the Date: Colorado Association of School Nurses 2023 Fall Conference - Mastering Self-Efficacy: A Key to School Nursing Success - November 3-5, 2023. Learn more

• Save the Date: West Virginia Association of School Nurses 2023 Fall Conference - November 9-11, 2023. Learn more

• Indiana Association of School Nurses Conference 2023 - THE TIME IS NOW - November 15-16, 2023. Learn more and Register

NASN Calendar of Events

This calendar includes upcoming events hosted by NASN and NASN affiliate school nurse organizations. Access the calendar.

National Health Observances Calendar

This calendar lists special days, weeks, or months dedicated to raising awareness about important health topics. Access the 2023 calendar. 

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