{"id":635,"date":"2018-08-24T10:38:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T14:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shield\/?p=635"},"modified":"2019-04-10T12:15:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T16:15:36","slug":"august-24-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shield\/2018\/08\/24\/august-24-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"School Health Services Update: August 24, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Colleagues,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome to the beginning of a new school year!\u00a0 Like the children and adolescents we serve, I hope you have come back refreshed, renewed and excited for the many opportunities to improve the health and safety of our students!\u00a0 There is much happening across the state\u2026.the email below is filled with important updates, new guidance, valuable resources and available continuing professional development programs for all School Health personnel!\u00a0 (There are also\u00a0 five attachments included with this email.)\u00a0 Please be sure to forward this to your colleagues in your school building, in your district and in your community!<\/p>\n

A reminder to mark your calendar for the first statewide meeting for all School Nurse Managers to be held on Wednesday, September 12th<\/sup>,<\/a> at our new location in Westborough.\u00a0 An School Nurse Leadership orientation program<\/a> for all nurses new to their role in a leadership capacity is scheduled for Friday, September 21st<\/sup><\/u>.\u00a0 Registration for both of these programs is available soon on the SHIELD website<\/a> and open to all school nurses in leadership roles.<\/p>\n

Our best wishes for a wonderful and productive school year!<\/p>\n

Mary Ann, Janet and Alison<\/em>
\nMDPH School Health Team<\/em><\/p>\n

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SCHOOL NURSES IN THE NEWS:<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Congratulations to Brenna Quinn, PhD, RN, NCSN, CNE<\/strong>,\u00a0 and her co-authors, Jean C. Solodiuk, PhD, RN, Dominick Morrill, MPH, and Sangeeta Mauskar, MD, MPH for their publication in the American Journal of Nursing (AJN), August 2018, on their research related to, Pain in Nonverbal Children with Medical Complexity: A Two Year Retrospective Study<\/em>.<\/a>\u00a0 The findings reveal the importance of including childhood ailments as potential pain sources.\u00a0 Brenna has worked as a school nurse and is currently an assistant professor at the Solomont School of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Lowell. Jean C. Solodiuk is the clinical manager and Dominick Morrill is a project manager in the Pain Treatment Service, Department of Anesthesia, at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital. Sangeeta Mauskar is director of the Complex Care Service Inpatient Program at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital.\u00a0\u00a0 Brenna continues to work with school nurses to improve pain assessment skills of non-verbal students.\u00a0 She also serves on the National Board for the Certification of School Nurses, representing school nurses in Massachusetts!<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Shanyn Toulouse,<\/strong> MEd, BSN, RN, NCSN,<\/strong> Northeast Regional Consultant and a Children’s Vision Massachusetts (CVMA) attended the 2018 Focus on Eye Health National Summit.\u00a0 Prevent Blindness held its 13th\u00a0annual “Eyes on Capitol Hill” program on Tuesday, July 17, 2018, in Washington, D.C.\u00a0Members of CVMA and Prevent Blindness met with congressional and senate members and their staff to relate their personal stories and experience in vision and eye health, discuss the prevalence and prevention of vision conditions, and the impact of unnecessary vision loss in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/u><\/em><\/strong>From right: Gayathri Srinivasan, OD,\u00a0NECO; Clifford Scott, Past President, NECO;\u00a0Paulette Tattersall, Director, Co-Chair of CVMA, and\u00a0Priscilla Kelangi, Mgr of Comm and Dev.,\u00a0Prevent Blindness NE; Stacy Lyons, OD, NECO;\u00a0Shanyn Toulouse, RN, NE School Nurse Consultant, Haverhill Public Schools;\u00a0Marcia Feist-Moore, Educator; Bruce Moore, OD, Emeritus Professor, NECO, Co-Chair of CVMA; and Jack Huang, Volunteer.<\/p>\n

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DESE REQUIREMENTS FOR NEW SCHOOL NURSE LICENSURE:<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The below information will be posted in ELAR and the License Requirements Tool on the DESE website with relation to the orientation requirement for licensure as a School Nurse in Massachusetts:<\/p>\n

If you complete the school nurse orientation program through the Boston University School Health Institute for Education and Leadership Development (SHIELD) prior to 7\/1\/18, please submit a copy of your certificate of completion for each one of the three following mandated trainings:<\/p>\n