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September 11, 2021
SOS: Health Professionals On The Frontline

Nurses address inequities in the healthcare system while battling the Coronavirus pandemic and a shortage of nurses. Questions about the nurses' role are being debated in the medical community. What is the future of the healthcare system?
Law Reforms Promote Nurse-Managed Care | The Regulatory...

Amid rising insured rates, physician shortages, and COVID-19, nurse-led care seeks to address health inequities. In Richmond, Virginia, a public health nurse leads a community clinic where refugees and immigrants can receive the COVID-19 vaccine. ...

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ANA Urges HHS to Declare Nurse Staffing Shortage a...

MEDIA CONTACTS: Shannon McClendon301-628-5391 [email protected] Keziah Proctor301-628-5197 [email protected] SILVER SPRING, MD - The American Nurses Association (ANA), representing the interests of the nation's 4.2 million nurses,...

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www.nursingworld.org
End Nurse Abuse

The American Nurses Association (ANA) convened a professional issues panel to develop policy and identify strategies to address barriers to nurses and other health care workers reporting violence and abuse, and to strengthen 'zero-tolerance'...

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The Delta Variant Surges Across U S

Learn the new guidelines in this ever-changing pandemic. As the virus mutates and spreads no one is safe. Use the map provided by NPR to discover how your state is coping with the new variant.
Do You Need To Wear A Mask Indoors Where You Live? Check ...

With the delta variant taking off around the U.S., the federal government updated its masking guidelines for fully vaccinated people last week. The new advice is to mask up indoors if you live in a place with "substantial" or "high" coronavirus...

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Feelings Of Trauma On 9/11

NAMI has specialized resources for frontline professionals, as well as veterans and active duty service members. They offer support to help anyone better cope with recovery from trauma.
NAMI Is Here To Help for Feelings of Trauma, As...

Reminders of 9/11 are all around us - in the news, in documentaries, on social media and in the broader public discussion. For many people, those reminders vividly bring back the trauma they first felt two decades ago. We respond to grief and...

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Understanding The Critical Race Theory

Civil rights law and policy expert Bob Kim answers some key questions and offers insight into what is happening across the country.
What Critical Race Theory Is and What it Means for Teachers

Editor's note: This blog was republished with permission from Robert Kim. You can view the original post on Heinemann.com. Watch Robert Kim, Cornelius Minor and Kass Minor talk about anti-CRT legislation as part of Heinemann's ForwardEd series on ...

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www.learningforjustice.org
News Literacy Provides Platform For Teachers

CNBC journalist Salvador Rodrigueq highlights efforts of teachers using Checkology to help students filter out misinformation about a catalog of topics as they start the new school year.
CNBC highlights NLP's Checkology® and an Alabama...

In a new piece for CNBC, journalist Salvador Rodriguez reported that amid the pandemic, quarantines, and homeschooling, "QAnon and anti-vaxxers brainwashed kids stuck at home." With schools open, "teachers have to deprogram them."

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newslit.org
Librarian K.C. Boyd an advocate for students, community, ...

School librarian K.C. Boyd is a passionate advocate for her profession, her students and her entire District of Columbia community.

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October 28: Tips and Tricks for Integrating News...

Please join us on Thursday, Oct. 28 for an important, free, day-long event, Summit: In Community, hosted by the School Library Journal (SLJ).

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