Weekly Digest
NASN news & updates
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Health Law Professionals Walk
You Through Sharing Data
Across Sectors
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With a vast amount of data, school nurses face a new challenge in how to share it with other healthcare providers and agencies. This course will analyze a variety of issues including determining best practices in student care, enhancing continuity of care, and conducting educational and health research. Join us for a look at these important issues. |
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Protecting Young Adults From Meningococcal Disease |
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This new, complimentary educational activity provides school nurses with strategies to improve meningococcal vaccination rates for youth. This activity was developed through a partnership with the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) and NASN. Receive 1.0 CNE contact hour. |
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Red Ribbon Week Lesson Plans and Videos |
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Happy Red Ribbon Week! If you’re still looking for handouts, posters, flyers, lesson plans, and videos, you can find everything you need at Ask, Listen, Learn, from the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility. |
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Panel Discussion: The ACEs Epidemic Impacting School Communities |
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This discussion features understanding the generational impact of childhood adversity through a parent perspective and with a trauma-responsive lens. Building from the foundation of trauma-informed care to healing-centered engagement which covers the intersection of Adverse Community Environments and Adverse Childhood Experiences (also known as the “Pair of ACEs”). |
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Managing Chronic Health Conditions |
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Get Materials to Educate About Children's Oral Health |
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Tiny Smiles, a Give Kids A Smile® Program, a collaboration with Scholastic, is providing school nurses with free materials to help educate patients and families about oral health of children from birth to age 5. The free kit includes fun activity sheets, tips to share with parents, and a mini-poster to display in practices/clinics. Take a brief survey and get these free materials before Nov. 15 as supplies are limited. |
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Improving School Community & Student Health |
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Halloween Isn't Always Fun For Everyone |
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Halloween can be a grief trigger. Sometimes costumes or decorations reflect actual elements of the death a student is grieving — an injury, illness, or shooting for example. More often, the general focus on death, darkness, and fear may be enough to serve as a grief trigger for some students. Some may be troubled at the lightheartedness and humor being brought to the topic of death. |
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Resources for School Nurses |
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Model School District Policy on Suicide Prevention: The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, American School Counselor Association, National Association of School Psychologists, and The Trevor Project have collaborated to create this guidebook containing best practices in suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention policies for K-12 schools.
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Opportunities & Networking |
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E-Posters Are Due Feb. 6, 2020 |
Does speaking in public make you nervous? Many people say this is why they don’t submit an abstract for an oral presentation. However, we have an alternative for you: the e-poster. Choose e-poster when you submit your idea! |
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The Healthy Schools Toolkit 101 Webinar
2-3 pm EST Thursday, Nov. 14
This webinar, hosted by Health Equity Works, will introduce the Healthy Schools Toolkit - a research-informed tool that is grounded in the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model and designed to help schools and school districts strategize to build healthier school communities that support the whole child. Read more and connect with our team. |
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NASN Calendar of Events
This calendar includes upcoming events hosted by NASN and NASN affiliate school nurse organizations. Access the calendar.
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National Health Observances Calendar
This calendar lists special days, weeks, or months dedicated to raising awareness about important health topics. Access the 2019 calendar.
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