Hello school nurse colleagues, counselors, administrators, and other school or health professionals! Northeastern University School Health Academy (NEUSHA) has two exciting continuing nursing education conferences planned, along with 5 live webinars, and our selection of 30+ online programs! Scroll down for information and registration for our latest programs:
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You may be following the news of the
human trafficking
ring found in Vero Beach, Florida. But did you know that the manager of this "Spa" was arrested in Oxford, MA for human trafficking in 2011? Unfortunately, this was one year before the new Massachusetts human trafficking law took effect.
Please join us for a special interdisciplinary conference on this important topic:
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Thanks to those who have been able to join us so far for our #WeeklyWebinars! Check out our upcoming webinars below, and i
f you missed any of our recent webinars, head to our
Online Programs page
where many of them are being made available for you to take on your own time!
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$10, 1 contact hr 3:30pm-4:30pm EST
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Did you know that Surgeon General Jerome Adams declared youth vaping an epidemic in the United States in December 2018?
(Yale Medicine)
Dr. Susan Feeney will discuss the
growing epidemic
of student vaping, including current evidence of student use and public health concerns, design and ingredients of e-Cigarettes and Vaping devices, and best practices for school nurses, public health professionals and primary care providers.
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$10, 1 contact hr 3:30pm-4:30pm EST
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Michael Pistiner, MD, MMSc, Director of Food Allergy Advocacy, Education and Prevention for the MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Food Allergy Center, will share the latest best practices for prevention and management of life-threatening food allergies by private school nurses.
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$20, 2 contact hours, 3:30pm-5:30pm EST
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This
two hour
webinar features grief specialists of the national nonprofit HealGrief. The objective is to increase school nurse knowledge and confidence to support grieving students.
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Kiri Meyer, MS, LPC, NCC Director of Programming for Actively Moving Forward, founder of StarBright Grief Guidance LLC,
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Andy McNiel, MA, Advisory Board member of Heal Grief, Co-founder and Executive Partner with The Satori Group, LLC, Co-author of Understanding and Supporting Bereaved Children: A Practical Guide for Professionals
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Micayla Freehan, BS, RN
Alumni Board Member, Actively Moving Forward (AMF)
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Fran Solomon, Founder and President, HealGrief
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$10, 1.25 contact hrs 3:30pm-4:45pm EST
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Samar Moushabeck, a native Arabic speaker and teacher at Deerfield Academy, will teach school nurses about factors to be aware of to increase culturally competent care to improve health outcomes for students of Middle Eastern backgrounds.
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Maryellen Maguire-Eisen MSN, RN is Executive Director of the Children’s Melanoma Prevention Foundation, which seeks to teach children and nurses about sun protection and skin cancer prevention. School nurses will learn about epidemiologic trends in skin cancer mortality and morbidity, factors that affect UV intensity, skin sensitivity, proper sun protection, and skin cancer assessment, and the SunAWARE K-12 curriculum and accompanying resources.
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Webinar registration coming soon
March 14th: Behavioral Telehealth
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With a pre-conference Sunday August 11th on Epilepsy
Summer Academy topics including:
- Effective Messaging; Family Dynamics and Organizational Health; John Kriger
- Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Dr. Peter Rowe
- Behavioral Telehealth, Maureen Donovan
- Best Practices, Challenges and SMART goals for every practice level
- Student Vaping, Bob Collette and Morissa Vital
Registration coming soon at www.neusha.org
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NEW Online Programs:
If you missed our annual Election Day CNE conference, you can take advantage of these two new online programs made from the recorded presentations:
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School health professionals will understand the negative effects of marijuana use for youth and adults, understand the current marijuana laws in MA, and understand how legalization of marijuana leads to increase youth use and misconceptions that marijuana is safe to use.
Contact hours: 2.0 Cost $25
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Robin Cogan MEd, RN, NCSN School Nurse Advocate NJ
This program was taped from a presentation on November 6, 2018 by Robin Cogan. She discusses the statistics of firearm violence on students in our schools and communities. Robin also discusses her story about finding her nursing advocacy voice for this public health issue. This is not a political presentation.
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Webinars as Online Programs
Were you unable to join us for some of the past few Weekly Webinars? Now you have the option to take some of them online, at your own pace:
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Cyndi Aldrich, RN, BSN, M.Ed. HNB-BC shares her expertise as a school nurse for over two decades and a board-certified holistic nurse. Cyndi teaches evidence-based holistic stress management and shares techniques that may be used in for a more holistic approach to school nursing practice.
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Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, school nurse activist and author of
TheRelentlessSchoolNurse
blog, shares her
Twitter advocacy expertise
with school nurses! Thank you to those of you who joined us for the #twitterversity! If you were inspired to join Twitter, don't forget to follow NEUSHA
@NEUSHA2019
.If you missed the webinar, click the title linked above to take it as an Online Program!
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This webinar took place on Jan. 6th, 2019 and was recorded via BlueJeans. Kelli Garber, MSN, APRN, PPCNP-BC, Lead Advanced Practice Provider and Clinical Integration Specialist for the Center for Telehealth at the Medical University of South Carolina, and Lynn Floyd, School Nurse and Telehealth Presenter, explain how telehealth works in the school setting. Click the title above to view it as an online program!
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The 2018-2019 series:
“Advancing Leadership in Every School Nurse”
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Northeastern University School of Nursing is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation (ANCC).
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Information about conflict of interest and commercial support for each program is
identified on registration.
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We hope you will take advantage of some of our learning opportunities, whether Face-to-Face or Online, and share them with your school nurse or counselor colleagues!
Sincerely,
Kathy, Jenny and Lindsay
The NEUSHA team
NEUSHA phone: (617) 373 3466
Northeastern University School Health Academy (NEUSHA) provides school health personnel engaging, professional learning opportunities to benefit youth health and safety.
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