Nasn Position Statement Emphasizes The Importance Of School Immunizations

The National Association of School Nurses (NASN) coming released its updated position statement, Immunization and Vaccination Requirements, underscoring nan basal domiciled of timely, up-to-date, and complete vaccinations successful protecting school-age youth, staff, and communities from preventable, superior infectious diseases.

NASN calls for schoolhouse immunization requirements to beryllium aligned pinch nan champion disposable technological grounds and recommends eliminating vaccine exemptions, isolated from successful cases of validated aesculapian contraindications.

Immunizations prevention lives, trim illness, and support students healthy, safe, and fresh to learn. School nurses are trusted leaders successful addressing vaccine hesitancy, correcting misinformation, and supporting families to guarantee each kid has entree to nan protection vaccines provide."

Lynn Nelson, MSN, RN, NCSN, NASN President

The updated connection highlights:

• The captious value of evidence-based schoolhouse immunization requirements.
• The domiciled of schoolhouse nurses successful improving vaccination sum and addressing hesitancy.
• The request for equitable entree to vaccines for each school-age children.
• The elimination of non-medical vaccine exemptions to protect nationalist health.

School nurses stay astatine nan forefront of vaccination efforts-reinforcing requirements, search immunization records, supporting families pinch catch-up schedules, and starring school-based vaccination clinics.