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Putting Our Heads Together: Updates and Refreshers for School-based Concussion Management

Start
28 Jan 2021
End
25 Feb 2021
Schedule
2 sessions
#1.
28 Jan 2021, 4:00 PM 5:00 PM (EST)
#2.
25 Feb 2021, 4:00 PM 5:00 PM (EST)
Location
ZOOM
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151 registrants

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NHSNA Members
Included as part of your membership with NHSNA. This series is expected to sell out and will only be available to members. If you would like to join, please visit our webiste at www.nhschoolnurses.org.

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Two-Part Thursday Series: FREE to NHSNA Members
January 28th &February 25th
Time: 4:00-5:00 pm
2.0 Contact Hours

Sponsored by the Brain Injury Association of NH

Did you know that school districts are now required to have a Return to Learn Concussion Plan in place?

RSA 200:63 Head Injuries; Return to Learning Policy and Plan. –
I. The department of education shall collaborate with the Brain Injury Association of New Hampshire to develop a concussion and traumatic brain injury return to learning policy and plan for school districts. The plan shall include a recommendation on school-based concussion and brain injury in-service training.
II. The school board of each school district shall adopt a concussion and traumatic brain injury return to learning policy school education program.

Source. 2020, 38:16, eff. Sept. 27, 2020.

Presented by:
Dr. Jonathan D. Lichtenstein DHMC

Dr. Lichtenstein is the Director of Pediatric Neuropsychological Services at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, where he oversees the outpatient service and participation in multiple interdisciplinary clinics. Dr. Lichtenstein also serves as a consultant to concussion management programs at high schools and colleges in New Hampshire, including Dartmouth College Athletics. He is the co-director of Concussion Chalk Talk, a grant-funded school-based concussion management program, which places an emphasis on returning to learn.

January 28th: Putting Our Heads Together: updates and refreshers on school-based concussion management. Will include information on mandated Return to learn legislation.

February 25th: Head Games - Post- Concussion Syndrome in Adolescents

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