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Data Privacy for School Nurses 2023: Navigating the Complex Minefield of Privacy Laws

Release Date: 12/05/2023
Expiration Date: 12/05/2026
Originally presented as a webinar on December 5, 2023

Cost: $20.00/Free for NASN members!

Upon successful completion of this offering,
participants will be awarded 1.0 Nursing Continuing Professional Development (NCPD) contact hour.

Instructions to Complete This NCPD Program
To receive a Certificate of Completion and be awarded NCPD contact hours for this program, follow the steps below, and complete and view the full content of the program including the program evaluation. If an assessment is included in the content, you will need to have 75% of the answers correct in order to pass the assessment. You will also have unlimited retakes on the assessment.

Step 1: Enroll in the program through the e-commerce system. Select the Purchase button. You will be directed to the e-commerce system. The program should already be in your shopping cart (look for the shopping cart icon at the top of the e-commerce web page). Select the shopping cart and choose "check out." You will receive a confirmation email with a link back to this program after your transaction.

Step 2: Complete and view the full content of the program. Content items are indexed at the bottom of this screen. After you enroll, you will return to this screen. The first content item will be “unlocked” so that you can begin completing the course. Subsequent items will “unlock” as you complete previous items.

Step 3: Retrieve the certificate.  After completing all content items, you will earn a certificate. You can save or print it.  Certificates are also stored in your Learning Center Profile.

Program Overview

This activity will help attendees acquire an enhanced understanding of the legal framework that governs data privacy and data sharing in schools with the ability to apply such knowledge to specific situations that school nurses encounter in their day-to-day work.

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

  • Obtain a working knowledge of health information privacy requirements under HIPAA and FERPA.
  • Articulate when and how each federal law may govern health information privacy and sharing in schools.
  • Understand how state privacy laws might affect student health information privacy, including the real and perceived implications of recent state legislative trends.
  • Apply learned information to school nursing scenarios.

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

Kerri Lowery, J.D., M.P.H.
Deputy Director and Director for Grants & Research,
Network for Public Health Law—Eastern Region

Kimberly Stanislo, DNP, APRN-CNP, LSN, CPNP-PC
Research, Education, and Practice Director
National Association of School Nurses

Carrie Waggoner, JD
Director, Network for Public Health Law
Eastern Region

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
Funding is included in the CDC - School Based Active Surveillance contract. This work was supported by the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (Contract # 75D30121C12121).