Facebook Live on Working with School Personnel

Join us on Wednesday, August 21, 2019, at 8:00 p.m. ET.

Are you back at school or getting ready to send your child back? This can be a stressful but exciting time of year for everyone – students, parents, and school personnel. Planning ahead and developing strong relationships with school staff is essential to maximize student success. The time you spend working to create a plan now is worth it!

Join Patty Osborne Shafer RN, MN, and Mary Nasuta MS, BSN, RN, NCSN, for a Facebook Live to learn how a school nurse can help you plan for managing seizures in school and coping with other challenges that may occur. Get answers to questions like

• Should every student with epilepsy work with a school nurse?
• What type of information should you have available for the school nurse at the start of every school year?
• When and how do you meet with a school nurse?
• How can they help make sure my child gets the right care during a seizure? 
• Are they part of the educational team? 
• How can the school nurse, medical team, and family work together?

Speakers

Patty Osborne Shafer RN, MN
Senior Director, Epilepsy Foundation
Biography

 

Mary Nasuta MS, BSN, RN, NCSN
Supervisor of Health Services, Harford County Public Schools
Nationally Certified School Nurse

Mary Nasuta is the Supervisor of Health Services in Harford County Public Schools and is a Nationally Certified School Nurse. In her current role, she works and collaborates with approximately 38,000 wonderful students and families and 75 professional nurses, all striving to improve student academic success. Ms. Nasuta has been a registered nurse for 35 years and has 25 years of experience in school nursing. She has a special interest in helpings students with chronic health care conditions thrive in school. Ms. Nasuta is the former President of the Maryland Association of School Nurses and has been elected as the Maryland State Director for the National Association of School Nurses. She recently participated as faculty on the Epilepsy Foundation’s “Managing Students with Seizures ECHO: The Importance of School Nurses” and has been a participant in the Consensus Conference on Best Practices for the Use of Rescue Therapies.

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Note: presenters cannot address individual medical concerns and cannot provide individual advice.