Back-to-School Health Tips: Preventing Common Childhood Illnesses

Back-to-School Health Tips: Preventing Common Childhood Illnesses

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Children are gearing up for back to school, and some have already returned. When children miss school, they miss valuable opportunities for learning, social development, and emotional development. Let’s plan for a healthy school year. This starts with sufficient sleep, nutritious meals, and adequate physical activity to promote wellbeing. Even following those steps, children can become ill with any of the numerous common childhood illness. With students, families, and school staff following proper precautions, this will minimize disruptions from illnesses in the ever-important educational environment. For illnesses to spread, there needs to be a source, transmission, and a host. Transmission can be through contact with contaminated surfaces (e.g. desktops, doorknobs), sprays and splashes (e.g. from sneezing or coughing), inhalation from aerosolized particles, and vectors (e.g. mosquitos, ticks). The below measures…
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Meningococcal Disease and Vaccine Awareness

Meningococcal Disease and Vaccine Awareness

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Please join Kirsten Trudeau, APRN, FNP-C with the KyIP Training Center as she talks about Meningococcal disease and the importance of vaccine awareness. Vaccines for Meningococcal | CDC Meningococcal ACWY | Immunize.org Meningococcal B | Immunize.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-BsV8-Sarc
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Water Safety this Summer

Water Safety this Summer

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Please join Dr. Julia Frith with the KyIP Training Center as she talks about safety tips around water safety in the summer. https://www.cdc.gov/healthy-swimming/safety/how-to-safely-visit-oceans-lakes-and-rivers.html https://www.cdc.gov/healthyschools/bam/safety/water-safety.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stzYo5vHl5c
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Preventing Insect-borne Illnesses

Preventing Insect-borne Illnesses

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Please join Vanessa Fisk, BSN, RN with the KyIP Training Center as she discusses helpful tips to prevent insect-borne illnesses. Please join Vanessa Fisk, BSN, RN with the KyIP Training Center as she discusses helpful tips to prevent insect-borne illnesses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6YuFL8TGCc
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Updated CDC’s Respiratory Virus Guidance

Updated CDC’s Respiratory Virus Guidance

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In this video Dr. Julia Frith of the Kentucky Infection Prevention (KyIP) Training Center highlights some of the updated respiratory virus guidance from the CDC. To see the full updated guidance from the CDC visit https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/guidance/?CDC_AAref_Val=https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/guidance/respiratory-virus-guidance.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k2Y1Mj-5sM
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2024 IP Boot Camp

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2024 IP Boot Camp Rewind Another successful IP Boot Camp KyIP Training Center was thrilled to announce the highly anticipated return of Infection Prevention Boot Camp, which featured an enhanced program with new presentations, new interactive simulations and tabletop exercises, and new presenters from the CDC, KDPH, and KyIP Training Center.In the 2024 session, KyIP Training Center crafted a dynamic learning experience that combined the convenience of virtual didactic sessions with the hands-on practicality of in-person simulation training, all tailored to meet the unique needs of healthcare professionals in each region of Kentucky. Boot Camp was hosted virtually May 1st, 2024 from 8:30 am – 4:00 pm EST. In-person in Eastern Kentucky on May 9th, 2024 from 8:30 am – 4:00 pm and Western Kentucky from 8:30 am – 4:00 pm. …
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