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Head
Louse Infestations: Evidence-Based Strategies
and
Best Practices for Tackling Head Lice
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A
must-attend event for school nurses dealing with real and presumed lice,
misinformed parents, school officials, and misguided policies
YOUR PRESENTERS:
California State
University, Sacramento
As a school nurse, a significant part of your job includes
managing the controversies, misinformation, policy issues, and fear
surrounding one of the most common childhood maladies: head lice. Because
parents and school officials exaggerate the importance of head lice and
their impact on public health, you probably spend a lot of time on
search-and-destroy missions to eradicate head lice from your school. But
these expectations are often misguided and counterproductive and, as a
result, divert you from other responsibilities of your job.
If you think you're spending too much time identifying head
lice and other pests, diagnosing infestations, enforcing
"no-nit" or "no-louse" exclusion policies, and
providing information and guidance to parents and students, you're not
alone. These policies, frequently based on folklore and marketing ploys,
can perpetuate an unwarranted fear of head louse "outbreaks."
But by providing more up-to-date, evidence-based information to school
health personnel, and the students and parents they serve, you'll be
better able to make more appropriate decisions about and pursue effective
action against head lice.
School nurses like you must be equipped to guide and educate
your school community on best practices for identifying and managing
pediculosis (infestations of head lice). But do you know how to separate
the latest myths from the realities of head lice? What steps should you
take to evaluate the problem in your school? What's the best way to deal
with anxious parents and school officials? And how can you contain
infestations while minimizing exposure to potentially hazardous treatment
options?
Get answers to these questions and more when you register to
attend the latest SchoolNurse.com webinar, "Head Louse Infestations:
Evidence-Based Strategies and Best Practices for Tackling Head Lice"
on Thursday, October 4, 2012. Listen as two prominent experts on head
lice and other pest infestations show you how to identify and judge the
viability of head lice and their eggs. You'll learn how to provide better
guidance to parents and school officials on louse management and policy
issues. And you'll come away with ideas to help your school reduce its
reliance on inappropriate treatments, enhance attendance rates, and
develop better relations between parents and school officials.
Register today to guarantee your place
at this essential learning session. And remember that your entire team
can participate with you when you register. We also encourage you to
invite school-board and other school officials, PTA members, parents,
school-board, and anyone else with the potential to influence the
policies and procedures regarding the management of head lice
infestations in your school.
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SCHOOLNURSE.COM WEBINAR AT A GLANCE:
DATE: Thursday,
October 4, 2012
TIME:
2 p.m. EDT; 1 p.m. CDT; 12 p.m. MDT; 11 a.m. PDT
PLACE: Your
telephone or speakerphone and computer
COST: $99
per site non-subscribers ($129 after 9/21/12)
{$49 per site to subscribers of School
Health Alert newsletter}
TO REGISTER: Click here or call
1-866-370-7899 toll-free
For one low price-just $99 (through
9/21/12; $129 thereafter)---you, your staff, parents,
and other school officials can take part together in this fast-paced,
insightful webinar. Best of all, you'll be able to connect personally
with our speakers when we open things up for questions from the audience.
Here are just some of the questions
you'll get answers to during this in-depth 90-minute conference:
- What is the medical and
public health significance of head lice?
- How can you determine if
a child has been infested by head lice?
- How should a presumed
infestation be evaluated, and by whom?
- What can school nurses do
to help guide policy changes in schools, and how can they ensure the
success of those changes?
- How are head lice
transmitted and what can you do to prevent transmission?
- What is the risk of an
infested child to other students and how can you reduce that risk?
- Is there a
"best" method for treating an infested child?
- What are the safest and
most effective products available to treat infestations? And which
ones no longer work?
- What is the significance
of nits and can they be transmitted?
- No-nit and no-louse
policies: Do they really work?
...and much more!
Your webinar registration includes:
- A site license to attend
the conference (invite
as many people as you can fit around your speakerphone at no extra
charge)
- Downloadable PowerPoint
presentations from our speakers
- The opportunity to
connect directly with the speaker during the audience Q&A
session
Register Now! Or
for more information, call us toll-free at 1-866-370-7899.
Distinguished Presenters
 Richard J. Pollack, PhD
is President and Chief Scientific Officer at IdentifyUS, LLC where he
provides pest identifications and guidance services. Dr. Pollack has
consulted with a range of health/public health, housing, education
organizations as well as businesses worldwide. His advice is sought by
manufacturers as well as packagers and providers in the pesticide,
pharmaceutical, and food industries. He offers guidance on pest control
to property management companies, owners, tenants, the hospitality
industry, residential schools, hospitals and other health facilities, as
well as for legal counsel. He has inspected dwellings for municipal
agencies and private pest control companies and served as an expert
witness in legal challenges. Dr. Pollack has identified tens of thousands
of real and presumed pests for medical professionals and the general
public. He served as a public health entomologist at the Harvard School
of Public Health for 22 years where he engaged in research and provided
instruction on diverse pest species both locally and internationally. He
was also a research associate professor in the Department of Biology at
Boston University and maintains an appointment with that institution as
well as with Tufts University. Dr. Pollack earned degrees in Entomology
(B.S.) from Cornell University, Medical Parasitology (M.Sc.) from the
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Parasitology (Ph.D.)
from the University of Pennsylvania.
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 Joan
Edelstein, MSN, DrPH, RN has extensive experience as a
clinician and educator in maternal/child health as well as community
health. She is the Coordinator of the School Nurse Credential Program at
California State University, Sacramento and was a Professor of Nursing
for 22 years at San Jose State University. From 2005 to 2008, Dr.
Edelstein worked for the Alameda County Public Health Department in a
jointly funded position with the Oakland Unified School District as
Health Services Coordinator. During that time, she researched and
presented an evidence-based head lice policy to the board, which was
accepted and has become a model policy both nationally and
internationally. This policy change received coverage on NPR and serves
as a model no-exclusion policy for those wishing to change district
policy to one that is evidence-based. Dr. Edelstein has presented
internationally on changing lousy policies in school districts. She
received her MSN in pediatric nursing and PNP certification from Yale
University, and received both an MPH and DrPH in maternal/child health at
UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
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