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• NHSNA Board Meeting

  • Start
    21 Nov 2024
  •  
  • End
    19 Jun 2025
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  • Schedule
    8 sessions
  • Location
    Zoom

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  NHSNA Board Meetings are open to any NHSNA member who would like to attend.  It's a great way to learn more about the current initiatives underway.  

  We do set our agenda ahead of time and if you want to discuss a particular subject please be sure to list it on your registration form.  

  Our Set agenda for each meeting includes:

  • President's Remarks
  • Secretary / Approval of last meetings minutes
  • Treasurer’s Report 
  • Executive Administrator Report / Correspondence
  • NASN Director 
  • Reports of the Standing Committees 
  • Old Business / Review of Action Items
  • New Business 
  • Meeting adjourned – next meeting time

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• Supporting Students with Cystic Fibrosis in the School Setting

  • When
    05 Feb 2025
  •  
    4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Supporting Students with Cystic Fibrosis
  in the School Setting

  February 5th, 2025  via Zoom
  4:30 to 5:30     1 Contact Hour

   
  Danielle Cantin, MSN, APRN, FNP-C
  Children's Hospital at Dartmouth

  Accommodations in the school setting for CF requires a lot of teaching from the school nurse on the reasons behind the accommodations.  Gain confidence in your knowledge of CF by attending this webinar.

  Danielle Cantin, MSN, APRN, FNP-C will present information about the pathophysiology of cystic fibrosis, current treatments, and how important the communication between school nurses and CF providers is to keep these students healthy and in school.

    ***  NHSNA members may add other School Nurses in the district at a discounted price.  Encourage your administration to send you all! 

  You may submit questions ahead of time in your registration.

  Danielle Cantin, MSN, APRN, FNP-C is a Nurse Practitioner at Dartmouth Health Children’s.  After receiving her BSN from Saint Anselm College in 2007,  she fell in love with taking care of children with chronic illness including those with cancer and cystic fibrosis.   She worked on the inpatient pediatric unit at Dartmouth and earned the title Nurse of the Year by the NH Nurse’s Association in 2010.   In 2012, she completed her MSN from the University of New Hampshire and began her APRN journey in primary care at Concord Pediatrics in Concord, NH.   She transitioned to specialty care and joined Pediatric Gastroenterology at Dartmouth Health Children’s in 2019,  eventually focusing on children with chronic GI conditions, namely inflammatory bowel disease.  She joined the Cystic Fibrosis team in 2021 to manage the GI manifestations in CF.   In 2023 she applied for and was awarded a grant through the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation with the goal of becoming a comprehensive CF Provider,  and independently manage both GI and Pulmonary manifestations.   She will complete her fellowship in September of 2025,  and is currently beginning a quality improvement project to assist school nurses in the care of NH CF patients.   She presented a case study at the National Cystic Fibrosis Conference in 2024.   One of her greatest joys is working with the Patient and Family Advisory Committee on ‘Move-a-Palooza’,  a one month challenge to get patients with CF and their families moving through winter months while simultaneously becoming more educated about their disease.   Danielle lives in Concord NH with her husband and 2 children ages 9 and 11.

  
  

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• Using Malpractice Data to Identify Risks in School Nursing Practice

  • When
    05 Mar 2025
  •  
    4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
  • Location
    ZOOM

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  Using Malpractice Data to Identify Risks in School Nursing Practice

  
  Wednesday, March 5, 2025
  via ZOOM
  1 Contact Hour

  Presented by:  Jennifer Flynn, CPHRM
  Vice President, Risk Management
  
  

  Objectives:

  • List the leading allegations made against school nurses in
    malpractice lawsuits.
  • Define the average incurred expense for defending and
    resolving school nurse malpractice lawsuits.
  • Identify key risk management tools school nurses can incorporate into their practice to increase patient safety and reduce risk.

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• Vendor / Exhibitor Registration April 5th, 2025

  • When
    05 Apr 2025
  •  
    7:45 AM
  • Location
    Grappone Conference Center 70 Constitution Ave, Concord, NH 03301
  • Spaces left
    15
  • Registered
    5 registrants

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  Changing Climate  >>> Changing Health
  New Hampshire School Nurses Association 

  Annual Spring Conference and Vendor Fair

  
  The New Hampshire School Nurses’ Association (NHSNA) would like to invite you to take part in our upcoming continuing education spring conference and vendor fair. The goals of the event are to raise money for NHSNA and to provide continuing education to School Nurses with the opportunity to network with each other and with you!   We are anticipating that 70 to 100 School Nurses from all over the state of New Hampshire will be in attendance.

  Event details are provided below.  

  Date of the event: Saturday, April 5th, 2025

  Location: Grappone Conference Center  

  Address:  Courtyard Concord: 70 Constitution Ave, Concord, NH 03301

  Contact person: Paula MacKinnon  nhschoolnurses@gmail.com

  Suggested arrival time to set up booth: 7:00 / 7:15   Nurses start arriving at 7:30

  Vendor Fair hours: 1.0 hour dedicated as vendor time only, additional 1.5 to take place during Breakfast and Lunch for the nurses.

  • Breakfast 7:30 to  8:15   Help yourself to complimentary Breakfast
  •  10:00 to 10:30  (Vendor time only) (Lunch for vendors will be out at 11:00)
  • 11:30 to 12:00 (Vendor time only)
  •  12:00 to 12:45 (lunch and vendors for nurses)

  Important Event Parking Information   
  Parking is available in the main parking lot at the Grappone Center with overflow parking in the lot across from the attached Courtyard Marriott Hotel. Please be mindful of spots that are allocated to the Urgent Care & Medical Office building that share our lot and are noted as such. Violators will be towed as they do monitor those spots.

  Discounted Hotel Accommodations:  ** Rooms at the conference center are already sold out

  Fairfield Inn Marriott in Concord (2.2 miles away)

  159.00 USD per night - Last Day to Book : Friday, March 14, 2025
  

  4 Gulf St, Concord, NH 03301

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• Changing Climate >>> Changing Health

  • When
    05 Apr 2025
  •  
    8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Grappone Conference Center 70 Constitution Avenue Concord, NH 03301

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  NHSNA's Annual Conference, Membership Meeting and Vendor Fair

  Saturday April 5th  8:00 AM to 4PM

  In Person at Grappone Conference Center, 

  70 Constitution Ave, Concord, NH 03301

  5.25 contact hours
  Breakfast and Lunch Included
  NHSNA Members: $169
  Public: $189
  AGENDA
  
  Discount rooms available at the Fairfield Inn Concord for 159.00 USD per night - Last Day to Book : Friday, March 14, 2025

  Book your group rate for School Nurse Association Spring Conference

  NH weather is often the subject of jokes - 'if you don't like it wait, it'll change.' But many of the changes we have experienced recently are anything but funny. Returning from the garden or a walk these days means carefully checking for ticks and finding them far more frequently than in the past. Temperature has become an important go, no-go factor for outdoor activity. And this past year after gully washing rains, we have found our driveways and even roads washed out: inconvenient, expensive and perhaps scary.

  What are these changes and why are they happening? Perhaps more importantly, what can we do now to maintain a livable environment for ourselves, our children and their families?

  We have received a large grant to support the continuing education of school nurses.  Available print resources free of charge:

  • Pediatric Dermatology DDX Card Deck
  • Melt Anxiety and Relax Card Deck
  • Stop the Bleed Kits
  • RED Book 2024: Control of Communicable Diseases
  • Special Education and School Nurses
  • Eye Charts and Occluders
  • AND MORE

  At the end of the conference we will hold our Annual Membership Meeting.  Here we will recap the year, and honor our retirees and School Nurse of the Year.

  
  

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