School Nursing:
Orient, Renew and Review
Preparing and Improving Your Practice

Purpose: To promote and improve effectiveness in this specialty practice by providing key skills, knowledge and tools to initiate, revitalize and sustain quality school health services.  An extensive 350+ page manual will be provided to each participant.

This multiday conference is sponsored by the Missouri Association of School Nurses in cooperation with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.

When: September 23 - 25, 2010
Where: Tan-Tar-A Resort, Osage Beach, MO

Topics include: Professional Issues including delegation and standards of school nursing practice; new immunization requirements and how to improve compliance; communicable disease control and how to initiate a school-site vaccination program; medication administration including discussion about safe delegation; the ins and outs of special education and 504 and the school nurse's role; asthma, diabetes and seizures including hands-on demonstration of equipment and supplies needed for best management; child/abuse and neglect when and how to report; and screening programs, hands-on demonstration of various vision equipment for mandatory screenings and review of MO State Vision Commission Report; Hearing screening and physical exam of the ear, and much more...

Who Should Attend? New school nurses, nearly new school nurses and those with experience that desire to improve their standard of school nursing practice. Formerly known as School Nursing: An Orientation to Practice; this conference has been expanded to meet the needs of all school nurses whether new or seasoned.

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Conference Information

***IMPORTANT PLEASE READ***
HOUSE BILL NO. 1375: HPV Brochure

As required by HOUSE BILL NO. 1375 effective August 28, 2010, 167.182. 1. "The department of health and senior services shall develop an informational brochure relating to the connection between human papillomavirus and cervical cancer, and that an immunization against the human papillomavirus infection is available.  The department shall make the brochure available on its website and shall notify each public school district in the state of the availability of the brochure to be printed and included or referred to in any other printed material to be provided directly to parents as the school district deems appropriate.  However, materials made available pursuant to this section may only be distributed to parents directly and not distributed to students as material to be given to parents."

The Department has made the brochure available at the following websites:

http://www.dhss.mo.gov/

http://www.dhss.mo.gov/Immunizations/WhatsNew.html

Time To Register!!!!!

15th Annual Bi-State
Infectious Disease Conference
October 15, 2010

For Registration, Click Here

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Missouri Immunization Conference
Nov. 17-19, 2010

Conference Information and Registration

Urgent Notification!!!!!!

Governor Nixon has completely cut the School Health Grant Program from the State's Budget!!!!

This will immediately affect 279 school districts, 400 school nurse health professionals and 270,000 school children!!!!

READ MASN's Letter to Govenor Nixon.

READ Grant Funding Letter by Deb Cook.

Email Governor Nixon

Contact Your Legislator

October 13 - 16, 2010
Hyatt Regency Crown Center
Kansas City, MO

Registration Fees:

Professional - Member: $300
Professional - Non-Member: $430
Team Discount - Member: $265
Team Discount - Non-Member: $345
Retired Member: $150
Student - Member: $65
Student - Non-Member: $110

Questions? - Please contact Mary at mbramsier@ashaweb.org or 800.445.2742, x127.