Learning Burst Library: School Health

This learning burst describes the purpose and key components of Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule. It also explains how these laws apply to health information-sharing in the school setting with a few examples.

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This learning burst defines the term referral, describes five key steps of an effective school-based referral for health services and explores opportunities to formalize the referral process in your institution.

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This learning burst explains what it means to have a food allergy, the impacts food allergies have on children and adolescents, the key priorities for managing food allergies in schools and how to manage food allergies based on effective partnerships.

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This learning burst explains what school-based health centers (SBHCs) are, the impact they can have on health, educational outcomes and equity, and how to partner with local SBHCs.

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This learning burst, co-developed with Attendance Works, describes the major causes of absenteeism, identifies interventions to improve attendance and reduce inequities, and discusses how schools and healthcare providers can collaborate to promote school attendance.

Lead Contributing Author: Attendance Works

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This learning burst explores existing pediatric oral health disparities, possible partners to improve pediatric oral health outcomes, and steps that school health staff can do to improve oral health of their students.

Lead Contributing Author: Deborah J Mattheus PhD, APRN-RX, CPNP, FAAN

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This learning burst provides practical strategies to help prevent and manage the spread of infectious diseases in K-12 school settings.

Contributing Author: Alice Sato, MD, PhD, FAAP

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This learning burst discusses how and why schools, pediatricians and families can work together to prevent and manage infectious diseases in the school community.

Contributing Author: Beverly L. Nazarian, MD, FAAP

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This learning burst provides basic information about anxiety attacks and strategies a school professional can use if they encounter a student experiencing an anxiety attack.

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This learning burst defines care coordination, describes the roles of school nurses, the medical home, and families in care coordination in schools and explains the benefits of care coordination.

This learning burst was adapted from a presentation developed by Kristy Vitter MPH, BSN, RN.

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This learning burst explores how the focus on equity advancement in schools, using approaches rooted in the understanding of health disparities and COVID-19, can impact students and their communities.

Note: The following 3 learning bursts relate to providing culturally effective health care in schools. It is recommended that these 3 trainings be completed in this order.

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This learning burst defines culturally effective health care and its guiding principles in order to identify strategies that best address barriers seen within the school health settings.

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This learning burst describes how to identify potential community partners and ways to engage them to support the implementation of culturally effective health care practices that improve student health.

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