Share your experience as a school nurse during the COVID-10 pandemic and receive a $10 gift card for your time! You are invited to complete a new anonymous survey to help the CDC Foundation (in consultation with Deloitte Consulting and CDC) understand experiences and impacts during the COVID-19 pandemic in school settings. This survey focuses on vaccination efforts. Please complete the survey by June 4, 2021. It should take 15-20 minutes to complete, is solely voluntary, and is totally confidential. Your responses will not be linked to you individually and your email will only be used to send you your gift card. Your insight is extremely important to us to improve nationwide COVID-19 guidance and response in school settings!

Prioritizing School Nurse Activities is an interactive tool designed specifically for school nurses to help in the prioritization of practice activities for the day, week, or year. It will assist you to focus your time, attention, resources, and advocacy efforts.

As schools continue transitioning to in-person instruction, school nurses will help prepare and implement COVID-19 prevention strategies. Kaiser Permanente has collaborated with over 30 national school health organizations to create the “Planning for the Next Normal at School: Keeping students, staff, and families safe and healthy” playbook, which provides evidence-based guidance to adapting to school life after the COVID-19 pandemic. This resource suggests various ways school nurses can work toward decreasing the likelihood of disease transmission. Learn more.

COVID Collaborative, Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Brown School of Public Health, and New America task force released resources to help schools implement CDC guidance and safely get students and staff back to in-person learning. The guidance focused on infection prevention and control, including a roadmap of helpful case studies, a consensus statement from leading scientists on the science of how to best protect students and staff, and a use of funds memo outlining how to strategically use authorized funds.

NASN and school nurses have been widely represented in the news media over the past few months and we are now including a section in the Weekly Digest to highlight some of those stories twice a month. If you have a story about school nurses you'd like us to consider including, please send it to us.

To help parents, caregivers, and educators protect children's vision when working on digital screens, Children's Vision Massachusetts and Prevent Blindness have produced a new free informational resource. Display in your home office, health office, preschool or school homeroom, and share the link with families. Download and print the free 81/2" x 11" page in English or Spanish.

The 2021 Children’s Environmental Health Series: Seeking Equity in Environmental Health Outcomes for Disadvantaged Populations on June 8, 15, and 22 is a free, three-day virtual event focused on the impact of environmental factors on children’s health and well-being. Hosted by the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF), this collaborative event will address health equity, social determinants of health, and provide important information about environmental impacts on children's health.

The National Academy of Medicine Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity report explores how we can unleash the power of the nurse to achieve health equity. Learn how the systems that educate, pay, employ and enable nurses can support them in building healthy communities.

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