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School Nurse Essentials Conference AGENDA This 3 day course agenda was created by the NH School Nurse Association Education Committee |
Wednesday, August 16 |
7:30 AM | Breakfast and Registration |
8:00 AM | Welcome Introduction and Housekeeping |
8:15 AM | Welcome to School Nursing and School Nurse Advocacy |
10:00 AM | Break |
10:15 AM | Nursing Delegation in the School Setting This session will review the Standards of Delegation for School Nurses in NH. There will be an interactive component with conference participants applying delegation in the school setting. Presentation |
11:15 AM | Vision Screening: Tips for Tools and Reducing the Gap Between Referrals and Eye Exams This session will describe tips for using tools in the NHSNA vision screening recommendations, suggest an additional tool you may want to add for preschoolers, and offer tips for reducing the gap between vision screening referrals and follow-up eye exams. |
12:30 PM | Lunch |
1:15 PM | NH School Immunizations - 2023-2024 The School Nurses handbook for understanding NH Public Health law as it pertains to Immunizations, the required Annual School reporting, and the current state of immunization rates of students in NH. |
2:30 PM | Hearing Screening and Hearing Loss This presentation will cover the basics of hearing loss and hearing screening in the school setting. |
3:30 PM | Adjourn |
Thursday, August 17 |
8:00 AM | Breakfast and Registration |
8:30 AM | Welcome Introduction and Housekeeping |
8:45 AM | Navigating Legal Issues in the School Environment An overview of common legal issues that arise as a nurse in a school environment, and understanding best practices on how to navigate this role. |
10:00 AM | Break |
10:15 AM |
Child Advocacy and Protection Program
Anna Marsh, APRN, CPNP-PC Jessica B. Heiple Abby Hancock, MSN, RN Brooke Garrow, BSN, RN, SANE An introduction to the CAPP program at Dartmouth Health Children's and how to report suspected child abuse and neglect. Presentation slides |
11:15 AM | IDEA/Section 504 This session will introduce the school nurse's role with the Americans with Disabilities Act and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, two federal laws supporting children with disabilities in an educational setting. |
12:45 PM | Lunch |
1:30 PM | Emergency Planning and Crisis Planning Steven Cooper Scott Lambertson IS-100.C: Introduction to the Incident Command System, ICS 100 School nurses play important roles in emergency readiness. Every school must provide and all-hazards emergency operations plan, emergency response procedures, and training opportunities for staff. This session emphasizes the importance of maintaining good safety and security practices in schools. |
3:30 PM | Adjourn |
Friday, August 18 |
8:00 AM | Breakfast and Registration |
8:30 AM | Welcome Introduction and Housekeeping |
8:45 AM | On the Front Lines: School Nurses Key Role in Helping Anxious Students Anxiety’s negative impact on learning, school attendance, and the subsequent development of depression and substance use is well-documented. Following the pandemic, schools are being asked to do more and more to support the emotional well-being and mental health needs of their students, while often feeling ill-equipped to do so. When it comes to dealing with anxiety, school nurses are on the front lines. Anxious students often arrive in their offices, either chronically seeking to avoid or in a state of panic. Consequently, there is great potential for constructive interactions as part of an overall strategic plan. Unfortunately, accommodations are frequently put in place that make the problem worse. This training will focus on HOW to interrupt anxiety’s cognitive and physical patterns. I will present concrete, process-based strategies that challenge anxiety’s quest for certainty and comfort, and shift from common approaches that inadvertently support the disorder to those of building skills. |
10:00 AM | Break |
10:15 AM | On the Front Lines: School Nurses Key Role in Helping Anxious Students (continued) |
11:45 AM | Lunch |
12:30 PM | Student Inclusivity for Gender Expansive Youth Appropriate terminology, allyship techniques, mental health impacts of inclusion, and opportunity for Q&A |
1:30 PM | Break |
1:45 PM | Documentation and Data: Essentials for Every School Nurse School nurses keep students in school so they can learn. Yet teachers, parents, and decision-makers often do not understand the important role of the school nurse. This presentation will discuss how school nurses can use their documentation and data in practical ways to inform their own practice, as well as create change. Innovative and successful examples from fellow school nurses in will be New Hampshire highlighted and tips will be shared so that every school nurse can incorporate see how important documentation is in their practice.
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3:30 PM | Wrap up |
3:45 PM | Adjourn |
This live activity has been approved for nursing continuing professional development contact hours by JSI Research and Training Institute, Inc. Provider #4002966 JSI Research and Training Institute, Inc. is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. Day One | August 16, 2023 has been approved for a maximum of 6.25 contact hours Participants must attend at least 90% of the program day for which credit is being claimed and submit a program evaluation for that day in order to receive their certificate. |