California School Nurses Organization

The news release on the booklet may be downloaded and printed for your use here 

Communicable Disease Control

• Link to "Wash Those Hands"
• MRSA Parent Information Flyer - English
• MRSA Parent Information Flyer - Spanish
• VisualDxHealth, one of the most trusted sources for online health information, has developed a MRSA resource that you can link directly to at http://www.visualdxhealth.com/diseaseGroups/mrsa.htm
  
  • Downloadable MRSA-related handouts with images to assist with early recognition and to help increase awareness of simple prevention guidelines
  • A more detailed MRSA overview written by Dr. Loren Miller, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, and VisualDxHealth’s infectious disease editor
  
  

  Conflict Resolution

  Conflict Resolution for School Personnel

Dental

• Oral Health in America
• Information about AB 1433 - to be effective January 1, 2006 - Requires Oral Health Exam for all entering Kindergarten (or First Grade if no Kindergarten) - Click here for more info from CDE
• Frequently Asked Questions regarding AB1433 Emmerson. Click to download and print this document developed by CDA, CSNO, and ACSA.
• 4/2/07 Press Release regarding AB 1433 - Click to download, read, and/or print
• June 2009 press release indicating the data base use for collecting information is now FREE for School Districts to use. Please Click here for information.

Health Insurance

• Healthy Families

Hepatitis

• Hepatitis Foundation International

HIPAA

• HIPAA Release Forms
• HIPAA electronic submission of claims requirements
• Center for Health and Health Care in Schools
  Several articles posted on both HIPAA and FERPA - Enter "HIPAA" or "FERPA" into the search box at the top of the front page for a listing of pertinent articles. Click on the links listed there for articles. Any other topic can be entered in the search box - This is a very large website/resource.
• Office of Civil Rights HIPAA
• Schools and HIPAA
  15 page draft article on schools and HIPAA from the University  of North Carolina, School of Government

Immunizations

• State Public Health Officer Flu Shot Resolution

•  C3I Six Simple Messages to promote influenza vaccine
•  C#I Six Simple Messages to promote influenza Vaccine - Translated to Spanish

Medications (Compounding)

Several FDA articles on compounded medications, and how to report the counterfeit medications, if you have students using them, to the FDA

• http://www.fda.gov/counterfeit/