Practice and Academic Research Partnerships - A Win for School Nurses [Enduring]

Release Date: 9/14/2023
Expiration Date: 9/14/2025
Originally presented at Virtual NASN2022.

Cost: $20.00/Free for NASN members!

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Program Overview
Every school nurse collects data. Much of that data is student-specific related to nursing assessment and care provided. Data is also collected that is required for various forms of reporting at the school, district, or state level. Increasingly, school nurses are learning to participate in data collection and reporting at the national level through opportunities like the National School Health Data Set: Every Student Counts! Often school nurse data collection is directed to the needs of these specific uses and is gathered without thought regarding format for collection, future storage, and other purposes that the data might serve in support and advocacy for school nursing and students with special health care needs, a possible hidden gold mine for research and knowledge. A bridge is needed to connect limited purpose driven data collection and broader vision for data use in research. That bridge is partnership between practice and academia. This session will discuss one such partnership and the North Carolina Annual School Health Services Report data. It will describe the challenges presented, successful outcomes generated, and suggest strategies to help existing and currently collected data sets become more ‘research friendly.’

Learning Outcomes
As a result of participating in this educational activity, learners will be able to:

• Identify sources of purpose directed data collection currently used in school nursing practice.
• Describe potential research questions that currently collected data might inform.
• Examine common barriers to use of practice generated data sets designed for non-research purposes.
• Explore ways to partner with academia and other strategies to address common barriers presented.

Intended Audience
This continuing education program is a knowledge NCPD program developed to meet the educational needs of registered nurses who are interested in child, adolescent health, community/public health, and school nursing.

Faculty

Ann O. Nichols, MSN, RN, NCSN
NASSNC Special Projects Manager, State School Health Nurse Consultant, Ret.
National Association of State School Nurse Consultants

Nakia Best, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor
University of California, Irvine

Faculty and Nurse Planner(s) Disclosures
NASN must ensure that all educational program content is free of commercial interest, bias, influence, and that the integrity of the content is uncompromised. The intent of this disclosure is to provide learners with information on which they can make their own judgments.

The nurse planner(s), faculty, and reviewers disclose there are no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies for ALL those involved with the ability to control the content of this program.

Accreditation Statement
The National Association of School Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Accredited status does not imply endorsement by NASN or ANCC of any commercial products discussed in this learning program.

Commercial Support or Grant Funding
This program did not receive commercial support or grant funding.