Weekly Digest from NASN View as Webpage Weekly Digest NASN news & updates July 14, 2022 NASN News and Highlights See more. Upcoming Events See more. Weekly Digest Archive See past issues. Follow NASN on Social ‌ ‌ ‌ President's Message It's a wrap! In-Person NASN2022 and Virtual NASN2022 have just finished and it was so wonderful to see all of you in person and online. We had more than 800 school nurses gather together in Atlanta, and more than 1,800 join us online this week for Virtual NASN2022. The learning experiences were unparalleled and included timely discussions on epilepsy, asthma, health equity, Type 1 diabetes, suicide prevention, COVID-19, and trauma-informed care. Don't forget to complete the assessments and evaluations on the Assessment and Evaluation Platform by October 14 to earn your NCPD CNE. And mark your calendar for NASN2023 in Orlando, FL, next June! Linda Mendonça, DNP, RN, PHNA-BC, NCSN, FNASN NASN President BETTER HEALTH. BETTER LEARNING. ™ NASN News and Highlights School Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, 4th Edition NASN is pleased to offer this premier one-volume guide to contemporary school nursing. Based on ANA’s Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice for all registered nurses, these standards are authoritative statements on the duties that school nurses should competently perform. Composed of two sets—the Standards of Practice and the Standards of Professional Performance—these standards delineate how outcomes for school nurse activities are measured. Come and see what is new in this edition. PURCHASE YOUR COPY National Healthy Schools Collaborative Ten-Year Roadmap Healthy schools recognize and advance the mental, physical, social, and emotional well-being of students and school staff as a fundamental strategy for effective teaching and learning. An amazing group of over 25 health and education nonprofits—including NASN— has collaborated to craft a bold, comprehensive, and popular blueprint to create more healthy schools. The Healthy Schools Ten-Year Roadmap features hundreds of opportunities for action on the federal, state, and local levels. Explore the Roadmap Paid advertisements JOSN Article: Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy This Journal of School Nursing article, Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy Among Students and Families: Interventions for School Nurses, reviews the history of vaccine mandates, addresses challenges associated with vaccine compliance, and provides interventions school nurses can use when providing care to students and families regarding vaccine hesitancy. School Nursing for the Novice: How Do I Begin? Obtaining a position as a school nurse is an exciting career opportunity. But the reality of a new position in a new specialty area can quickly lead to anxiety and feeling overwhelmed. In the NASN July 2022 Podcast - Episode 1, NASN School Nurse Editor Cynthia Galemore interviews authors Cheryl Blake and Gail Trano about the article, "School Nursing for the Novice: How Do I Begin?" 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.  'I'm so lucky:' Beloved school nurse of nearly three decades honored by students (Source: king5.com) ABSS school nurse administrator recognized (Source: youtube.com) MY TURN: KIM UPTON (Source: marylandeducators.org) School Nurse of the Year (Source: aps.edu) BC's Connell School of Nursing honors Katherine O'Neill (Source: bc.edu) 'We’re not just here to fix boo-boos' (Source: newsbreak.com) BISD nurses honored as unsung heroes (Source: mysoutex.com) COVID-19 Updates New CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR) Although COVID-19 vaccination has been recommended for children aged 5–11 years since November 2021, coverage among this age group remains low. CDC released a new MMWR on July 1st, showing that ensuring broad access to COVID-19 vaccines could help increase vaccination coverage among children aged 5–11. Learn more. Poor ventilation in schools plays a significant role in infectious disease transmission, including COVID-19. Substantial federal financial resources are available to improve ventilation in schools. CDC released a new MMWR on June 10th reporting on the varied strategies impacted by school characteristics, including poverty. Learn more. New CDC Recommends COVID-19 Spikevax for Ages 6-17 On June 23, 2022, CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, endorsed the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ recommendation that Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine (also known by its trade name, Spikevax) be administered as a vaccination option for children and adolescents ages 6 through 17 years, in addition to its already recommended use in children 6 months through 5 years and adults 18 years and older. This recommendation expands options available to families, offering a second safe and effective vaccine. Learn more. Resources About COVID-19 Vaccinations for Children HHS’s public education campaign, We Can Do This, provides talking points with details on COVID-19 vaccinations for children ages 6 months and up to help with your outreach efforts. The materials include a sample letter to parents, talking points, posters, flyers, and digital communications like social media posts and sample text messages, and they are also available in Spanish. Get the resources here. 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. A major priority of this toolkit 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 educational leaders. 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. 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. NASN2022 Assessment and Evaluation To receive the Certificate of Completion and be awarded Nursing Continuing Professional Development (NCPD) contact hours for the sessions for both In-Person and Virtual NASN2022, complete the assessments and evaluations on the Assessment and Evaluation Platform. Choose the event and the day of the session to locate assessments and evaluations for activities on that day. There you can also find the syllabus for each event (this includes the session handouts), event discussions, and instructions to complete NCPD. The deadline to earn NCPD for both events is October 14, 2022. Managing Chronic Health Conditions Using the WSCC Model to Implement Wellness Policies and Sustain Chronic Health Condition Management in Schools School nurse involvement with school wellness policies is critical to ensure the overall health and well-being of students are addressed – beyond nutrition and physical activity. The ‘gold standard’ model school wellness policy developed by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation was updated in June 2020. This course offers information on the updated model wellness policy that now includes recommended language to address all 10 components of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) Model and the (2020) NASN supplemental language to address chronic health condition management – positioning the school nurse to be able to fully participate when schools review and refresh current school wellness policies. Learn more and complete the course. Improving School Community & Student Health 988 Launch for Suicide and Crisis Lifeline In 2020, Congress designated the new 988 dialing code to operate through the existing National Suicide Prevention Lifeline’s network of over 200 locally operated and funded crisis centers across the country. Beginning July 16, 2022, 988 is the number to use throughout the United States to receive 24/7, free and confidential support for people in suicidal crisis or mental health-related distress. Learn more. Free Courses About Epilepsy The Epilepsy Learning Portal is your one-stop shop to access the Epilepsy Foundation's online and on-demand trainings about epilepsy and seizures. These courses are CDC-approved, and many classes offer continuing education credits. Look for the purple section called Seizure Safe Schools Courses for courses designed specifically for the school nurse. Preparing for Medical Emergencies in Schools The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published an updated policy statement, Individual Medical Emergencies Occurring at School, focused on medical emergency preparedness for medical, behavioral, and traumatic emergencies in schools. Read an AAP article addressed to families. Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Did you know children with lead poisoning usually do not look or act sick? If a child may have been exposed to lead, parents/caregivers should talk to their child’s healthcare provider about getting a blood lead test. Learn more about blood lead levels in children. Establishing the Framework for Health Equity at CMS The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Framework for Health Equity depicts how CMS will operationalize efforts to achieve health equity across CMS programs in the next decade. CMS is the nation’s largest health insurer and has a critical role in driving improvements in health equity over the next decade. Read this recent CMS blog post. Healthy Vision Month 2022 This year, the National Eye Institute wants to inspire families to team up and learn how to protect their vision together! This year’s campaign is centered around people who are more likely to have eye problems because of barriers to accessing eye care. Use the resources here to join the conversation! NASN Resources: Check out NASN's Health and Practice Topics page on Vision and Eye Health, which provides national guidance for school nurses and others involved in front-line vision screening. NASN Member Benefit: VSP Vision™ Eyes of Hope® (formerly Sight for Students) is a program that provides school nurses with gift certificates for a no-cost eye exam and, if prescribed, new glasses that NASN members can distribute to students who qualify. Learn more and get the enrollment form. Mark Your Calendar NASN Annual Conference: Deadline to Complete NCPD CNE October 14 NASN encourages you to evaluate activities you attended while the information is fresh in your mind to provide the most accurate evaluation possible. Instructions to Successfully Complete IN-PERSON NASN2022 Instructions to Successfully Complete VIRTUAL NASN2022 State Associations of School Nurses' Conferences 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 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 Florida Association of School Nurses Face to Face 27th Annual Conference - Celebrating School Nurses in Supporting Student Success - October 14-15 - Learn more and Register Overseas School Health Nurse Association Spring Conference 2023 - March 26-27, 2023 - Learn more and Pre-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. 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