Weekly Digest from NASN View as Webpage Weekly Digest NASN news & updates June 23, 2022 The Weekly Digest will not be published on June 30 or July 7. NASN News and Highlights See more. Upcoming Events See more. Weekly Digest Archive See past issues. Follow NASN on Social ‌ ‌ ‌ President's Message On June 12, a bipartisan group of 20 U.S. Senators announced a proposal to address the gun crisis in America. This proposal aims to keep children and schools safe while reducing the overall threat of violence across our country. This proposal includes mental health resources, school safety resources, and gun violence prevention components. On Tuesday, June 21, "we finalized bipartisan, commonsense legislation to protect America’s children, keep our schools safe, and reduce the threat of violence across our country," Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, said in a joint statement along with Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and Thom Tillis, R-N.C. Read more about the text of the bill here. You can continue the powerful actions of Virtual Hill Days and reach out to your Senators and let them know that you support this commonsense, bipartisan legislation to stop senseless gun violence and prevent more loss of life. Search for your Senator here. Linda Mendonça, DNP, RN, PHNA-BC, NCSN, FNASN NASN President BETTER HEALTH. BETTER LEARNING. ™ NASN News and Highlights New Ten-Year Roadmap Resource to Create Healthy Schools NASN is a proud partner of The National Healthy Schools Collaborative and supporter of The Collaborative’s Ten-Year Roadmap. The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear how connected health and learning are. We cannot return to the pre-pandemic status quo, leaving millions of children and adults in unhealthy schools. This resource offers a bold, comprehensive, and popular blueprint to create healthy schools over the next decade. Informed by the real experiences of students, school staff and administrators, families, and nonprofit organizations, as well as successful policy experiments around the country, the roadmap offers a bold and practical path forward. This is the beginning of a movement to build and sustain healthy school communities with real resources to get involved. School Nurse Wellness Tools School nurses face challenges every day. NASN continues to reach out through the Healthy School Nurse community with suggested strategies to support the energy and resiliency of school nurses. The Healthy School Nurse Community in SchoolNurseNet provides a place where you can discuss how you model healthy living. Check out the latest blog on Mind-Body Skills, Week 3, and continue to follow all month long for more! We hope you will join us and share how your mental health and wellness journey is going. Paid advertisements JOSN Article: School Nurses’ Language Needs Education is associated with improved health outcomes. However, fewer non-Hispanic Black Americans earn high school diplomas, baccalaureate, or advanced degrees than white Americans, placing them at higher risk for poor health outcomes. Through NASN’s Framework for 21st Century School Nursing Practice™, school nurses can impact academic success and college readiness for Black youth. In this Journal of School Nursing Article: An Integrative Review of College Readiness Programs for Black High School Students; Opportunities for School Nurse Involvement, a review of the literature was conducted to describe programs to promote college readiness for Black high school students and evaluate school nurse involvement. Influencing the Future of Nursing The Brandywine School District was among six organizations nationwide that received a Nursing Innovations Fund award to address nursing’s role in building health equity and well-being and promoting a culture of health. With the grant money and additional organizational support, the BSD Lifesavers program was created. The BSD Lifesavers program provides early exposure to the nursing field for middle school students. Learn more about the inspiring inaugural program and its participants by watching the video, including an appearance and statement from Donna Mazyck, Executive Director of NASN. Identification of Workload Measurement Indicators for School Nursing In The Journal of School Nursing (JOSN) 2022 podcast, Martha Dewey Bergren, editor of The Journal of School Nursing, interviews author Beth Jameson to discuss the article, "Identification of Workload Measurement Indicators for School Nursing Practice." School Nurses in the News 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.  Bailey receives school nurse award (Source: eagleobserver.com) Hot Topics in Nursing: How the Pandemic Changed School Nursing in Aurora (Source: news.cuanschutz.edu) Kemi Loftin’s outreach leads to Discovery’s ‘Staff Member of the Year’ (Source: themadisonrecord.com) Shortage of school nurses prompts action from Arizona Department of Education (Source: downtowndevil.com) Stat! It’s a Special Kind of Field Trip (Source: news.christianacare.org) COVID-19 Updates New COVID-19 Vaccination Recommendations for Children CDC recommends COVID-19 vaccines for everyone ages 6 months and older and boosters for everyone ages 5 years and older if eligible. COVID-19 vaccines available for children include Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. Learn more. Article: Supporting Immunization Programs to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Immunization Action Coalition, Emory University, Vanderbilt University, and Association of Immunization Managers recently published an article in Vaccine, titled Supporting Immunization Programs to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Recommendations for National and Community-Based Stakeholders. The article focuses on effectively addressing the complex challenges of vaccine hesitancy, the value of community-based partnerships, stakeholder engagement, and the next steps. Toolkit: Addressing Decline of Vaccination Rates Of U.S. Students AASA, The School Superintendents Association, in partnership with the Merck Foundation, developed a comprehensive toolkit for educational leaders to address the decline in vaccination rates of students resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. This toolkit is available to superintendents, school boards, executive staff, school-based administration, teachers, families, and community members. A major priority of this offering is to ensure that superintendents and other district leaders have the knowledge, skills, and resources to address this challenging national health issue. Learn more and share with your education leaders. Know Your COVID-19 Community Level COVID-19 Community Levels is a tool to help communities decide what prevention steps to take based on the latest data. Levels can be low, medium, or high. Hospital beds in use, hospital admissions, and the total number of new COVID-19 cases in an area will determine community levels. School nurses can use the map of the U.S. by county to track the community level of transmission for your school(s), which is updated weekly. Mayo Clinic COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker School nurses are actively monitoring vaccine uptake for student populations. The Mayo Clinic has a resource to identify U.S. COVID-19 vaccine rates by state. This resource also reports U.S. COVID-19 vaccine rates by age. Learn more. Key Details Registration Rates: Register for Virtual NASN2022 Today See the Health and Safety Protocols. See the FAQs. NCPD CNE info Speaking at NASN2022? See the Speaker Information Attending In-Person? Download Eventsential, the conference mobile app. Download it on the Apple App Store Get it on Google Play. The Endowment Fundraising Committee will once again host the popular Satchels and Purses for Nurses event at the In-Person NASN2022 conference! Each year, NASN Affiliates and NASN Past Presidents donate purses, satchels, or totes for a silent auction. Browse items and place bids in the In-Person NASN2022 Exhibit Hall on Tuesday, June 28, from 12 - 4:30 p.m. and Wednesday, June 29, from 10:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. You can purchase a conference-themed scarf at this same booth!  Thank you for supporting school nursing research and the educational advancement of school nurses! Whether you join us In-Person, Virtually, or Bundle the two events, you'll be sure your personal development gets the time and attention it deserves. Get answers, get inspired, have fun and make memories! There's still time to Register for Virtual NASN2022! Managing Health Conditions Facilitating the Learning Experience During and After Cancer Treatment School nurses play a key role in treating and supporting students and in educating students and school personnel on the various diseases that can affect students. Therefore, it is important for school nurses to understand childhood cancers and the potential effects treatment can have on their education. This program provides an overview of the effects of cancer treatment, including medical, cognitive, and psychosocial challenges for survivors throughout their education, strategies to help meet the students’ educational needs, and resources to support schools and families. This program also provides ways school personnel can help siblings and peers of the child diagnosed cope and support the child, advice on communicating with the family and school community, including grief and loss, and underscores the importance of self‐care for the nurse and other school personnel. Learn more and complete the course. Improving School Community & Student Health Human Trafficking Webinar Series The U.S. Department of Education, the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education’s Office of Safe and Supportive Schools, and the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments invite you to join the next webinar in the series, The Impact of Bias, Inequities, and Injustices in Supporting Students Impacted by Human Trafficking. This webinar will take place Wednesday, June 29, 2022, from 3 - 4:15 p.m. ET. Learn more and register. NASN Resources: Working in partnership with the school community, law enforcement, child protective services, community-based providers, and social services, the school nurse serves a pivotal role by increasing public awareness of human trafficking and assisting with developing protocols for intervention. View NASN's Position Statement on Human Trafficking. Parent and Caregiver Resources from Got Transition As students with chronic health conditions transition to adult care, parents/caregivers have questions. Got Transition provides resources and tools that school nurses can share with families and students. CDC Naloxone Materials CDC released a suite of trainings and resources to promote the importance of naloxone to mitigate risks associated with opioid-involved overdose, increase naloxone dispensing in the community, and reduce the stigma surrounding naloxone through effective communication. NASN Resources: The Naloxone in Schools Toolkit offers numerous resources to assist school nurses and other school leaders to evaluate and respond to the opioid epidemic appropriately. DeafBlind Awareness Week 2022 In 2022, celebrate Helen Keller DeafBlind Awareness Week from June 26 to July 2. This year's focus is Diversity and Inclusion: Creativity and innovation are built upon a diverse group of perspectives. Who better to help initiate that innovation than the DeafBlind community, a group whose lives are driven by the pursuit of change and innovation? NASN Code of Ethics: School nursing practice, built upon ethical foundations, is grounded in the NASN core values of child well-being; diversity, equity, and inclusion; excellence; innovation; integrity; leadership, and scholarship (NASN, 2020). Mark Your Calendar NASN Annual Conference: IN-PERSON NASN2022 June 28-30 To register or participate in person, you must: Register by June 6, 2022. No onsite registration will be offered in Atlanta, Georgia. Acknowledge that you have read and that you agree to the “Health and Safety Protocols.” Learn more and register NASN Annual Conference: VIRTUAL NASN2022 July 11-13 (online) Some of the content will be streamed in real time during the conference schedule. This content will also be recorded and available to view through October 14, 2022. NOTE: This event includes additional "anytime" or on-demand sessions that attendees can begin viewing on the first day of VIRTUAL NASN2022. Learn more and register State Associations of School Nurses' Conferences Georgia Association of School Nurses 2022 Business Meeting & Symposium - July 1 - Learn more and Register Mississippi School Nurse Association Conference - Transformation: MS School Nurses Emerging with a Renewed Vision of School Health - July 11-13 - Learn more South Dakota School Nurse Association 29th Annual Conference - School Nurses Riding the Waves - July 12-13 - Learn more and register Texas School Nurses Organization: Region IV Conference/44th Annual Belle Blackwell School Nurse Conference - School Nurses: Leading the Way to Healthier Students and Communities - July 15 - Learn more and Register Kansas School Nurse Conference 33rd Annual Statewide Summer Conference - Unstoppable! Better, Smarter, Stronger. - July 18-21 - Learn more and Register Wyoming School Nurses Association Annual Conference - Focus on the Framework, Community and Public Health - August 2-3 - Learn more and Register Vermont State School Nurses Association (VSSNA): Working Together Conference - Sponsored by VSSNA & University of Vermont Medical Center Nurse Educators - August 24 - 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. NASN CALENDAR National Health Observances Calendar This calendar lists special days, weeks, or months dedicated to raising awareness about important health topics. Access the 2021 calendar. OBSERVANCES CALENDAR Acceptance of advertising on the ad banner in this newsletter or resource information listed within in no way implies endorsement of advertised or listed products or services by NASN. No endorsement is intended or implied. 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