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President's Message
August is Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month. Uncorrected vision problems can impair child development, lead to behavior problems in the classroom, interfere with early literacy and learning, and lead to permanent vision loss.

A comprehensive vision health program is a school nurse intervention that makes a significant measurable difference in a student’s overall health and learning. See NASN's resources on vision health.

2022 is the “Year of Children’s Vision” at Prevent Blindness. Stay tuned for more content related to children's vision in the coming weeks as NASN's Executive Director Donna Mazyck, MS, RN, NCSN, CAE, FNASN, is interviewed by Jeff Todd, president and CEO of Prevent Blindness, for their Focus on Eye Health Expert Series.
Linda Mendonça, DNP, RN, PHNA-BC, NCSN, FNASN
NASN President
BETTER HEALTH. BETTER LEARNING. ™
NASN News and Highlights
Op-Ed Calls to Sustainably Integrate Health and Learning
In an op-ed written by Daniel A. Domenech, executive director of the American Association of School Administrators, he called for policymakers to sustainably integrate health and learning. NASN is a proud partner of The National Healthy Schools Collaborative with AASA and other organizations.

"At the federal level, the creation of an office within the U.S. Department of Education charged with overseeing all policy and funding related to healthy schools would bring desperately needed structure and accountability. This recommendation is one of more than 100 included in the Healthy Schools Ten-Year Roadmap, a collection of comprehensive and complementary priorities and associated policy, programmatic, and human-capital related opportunities intended to dramatically increase the number of healthy schools."
NASN School Nurse Article: Improving COVID-19 Data Collection Process
In one school district, the high school nurse and instructional technology specialist collaborated on improving the process of collecting COVID-19 information, dramatically reducing the time it took to process information and improving data collection and sharing. This NASN School Nurse article, A School Nurse and a Technology Specialist: Partnering for Improved Processes During COVID-19, describes the steps in pandemic-related data collection and communication used before and after implementing the improved tools and processes. 
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The Relentless School Nurse: In Conversation with The White House
NASN Director and Fellow Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FAAN, and author of the blog The Relentless School Nurse, was recently invited to engage with the White House and have a role in influencing the policy process by sharing her experiences as a clinician and advocate. She amplified the voice and role of school nurses. Her key focus was to open eyes and minds to the health and learning connection, the need for student health equity, and the urgency for school nurses in every school. 
NASN School Nurse Podcast on Role Transition for New School Nurses

In the NASN July 2022 Podcast - Episode 2, NASN School Nurse Editor, Cynthia Galemore, interviews authors Rachel McClanahan about the article, "Smoothing the Way Into School Nursing Practice." This article describes the barriers and facilitators to smooth role transition and provides evidence-based orientation strategies for new school nurses.
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.

Managing Chronic Health Conditions
Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline: Students with T1D Toolkit

The incidence of type 1 diabetes (T1D) is increasing in children and youth under 20. The literature demonstrates that children with T1D experience multiple challenges in school that may increase their risk for diabetes-related complications. It is critical that a safe and supportive school environment exists for students with T1D. NASN’s School Nursing Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline: Students with T1D provides evidence-based recommendations to assist the school nurse in improving the health and safety of the school-age child with T1D. The School Nursing Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline: Students with T1D Toolkit also offers tools and resources to aid in implementing those recommendations.
COVID-19 Updates, Resources and Events
Ensuring an Equitable Pandemic Response and Recovery
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Minority Health and Health Equity invite you to attend the Protecting Our Children and Youth from COVID-19: Information for Parents, Caregivers, and Community Partners Webinar tomorrow, July 29, from 1:30 to 3 p.m. ET. This webinar hosted by an interagency workgroup is working under Section 3 of Executive Order 13995: Ensuring an Equitable Pandemic Response and Recovery. 
Improving Indoor Air Quality in Schools
CDC’s Interactive School Ventilation Tool is available for schools to estimate how they can reduce virus particles, including COVID-19, year-round. The tool shows how simple methods, including running HEPA air purifiers, increasing the use of outdoor air in HVAC systems when possible, and running exhaust fans, can reduce virus particles. Improving indoor air quality in schools also helps protect teachers, staff, and students from other respiratory illnesses. This tool is a collaboration between CDC and the National Institute for Standards and Technology. Find more information about improving ventilation to help reduce the buildup of COVID-19 virus particles. 
Improving School Community & Student Health
Ensuring a Healthy and Restorative Start to School
As partners of the 2022 Attendance Awareness Campaign, we invite you to join us at Webinar 3 of 4: Ensuring a Welcoming, Healthy, and Restorative Start to School on August 3 at 3 p.m. ET to learn how to create belonging and connection for students and families. Speakers will share lessons learned, tools for helping students overcome barriers to getting to class, and strategies for the entire school community to promote a positive and engaging learning environment. Learn more and register.
Promote Well-Being Among Children and Adolescents
The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recently released its 2021 Annual Report to Congress. The report spotlights children’s mental health and highlights CPSTF recommendations for school-based cognitive behavioral therapy programs that can help improve children’s access to mental health services. CPSTF recommends universal and targeted school-based cognitive behavioral therapy programs as effective ways to prevent or reduce anxiety and depression symptoms among children and adolescents. Decision makers can use the CPSTF recommendations to inform their efforts to prevent or reduce anxiety and depression and promote well-being among children and adolescents. 
Innovation in School Nursing
Do you have an innovative idea that's going to bring positive change to school nursing this year? MakerHealth wants to listen to your ideas and take action on them to promote the health and safety of students and families. Maybe you've spotted an opportunity to invent something to aid students in managing their chronic conditions, or maybe you want to co-create a personalized diabetes or asthma kit with a student. MakerHealth is recruiting for their Fall cohort of the MakerHealth Academy Certificate program. This program supports creative school nurses ready to lead the creation of new tools and more devices to boost students' confidence and increase health equity in their communities. Scholarship opportunities for the MakerHealth Academy certificate program will be prioritized for NASN members.
Keeping Kids Fed
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will provide nearly $1 billion in additional funding to schools to support the purchase of American-grown foods for their meal programs. President Biden recently signed the Keep Kids Fed Act, which equips schools, summer meal sites, and childcare food programs with extra resources to continue serving children through the 2022–2023 school year. Both actions are in response to the significant challenges child nutrition programs continue to face, such as high food costs and supply chain disruptions. 
Promote Physical Activity by Walking To/From School
CDC Healthy Schools researchers recently published “Improving active travel to school and its surveillance: an overlooked opportunity in health promotion and chronic disease prevention” in Translational Behavioral Medicine. The commentary offers insights into strengthening surveillance and data collection of active travel to school (ATS) behavior and ATS environmental, policy, and program supports.  
Today is World Hepatitis Day
World Hepatitis Day brings the world together under a single theme to raise awareness of the global burden of viral hepatitis and to influence real change. With a person dying every 30 seconds from a hepatitis-related illness – we can’t wait to act on viral hepatitis. Learn more and join the campaign.

  • NASN Resources: Visit NASN's Immunizations page, to find vaccine resources for school nurses.
Mark Your Calendar
NASN Annual Conference:
Deadline to Complete NCPD CNE

October 14

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.


State Associations of School Nurses' Conferences

  • 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

  • Kansas School Nurses Organization - 46th Annual Governor's Conference for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect - October 11-20 - Learn more

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 2021 calendar. 
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