The H1N1 Influenza A pandemic outbreak is an issue that will be on the forefront of school health for the upcoming school year. School health professionals will have multi-faceted roles in the management of this virus in the school setting. Our roles will include:
Assessment, triage, and care of ill students
Health education for students, faculty, staff and families of disease transmission prevention strategies
Documentation of the scope that the school has been impacted by the H1N1 Influenza virus
Voluntary reporting of students with Influenza Like Illness
Providing calm and sound guidance to the school and community
Since the beginning of the H1N1 Influenza A outbreak, the New York Statewide School Health Services Center has worked to provide school health professionals with the latest news and guidance from the New York State Education Department, the New York State Department of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization. There remains uncertainty about what the upcoming flu season will bring and in anticipation of the need to convey information to the field quickly and effectively, we have made some changes in how that information will be formatted.
We have redesigned our website to address this need by adding an “H1N1 Flu” link to our gold main navigational bar that appears horizontally across the webpage below the words “Making the Difference”. We have moved our H1N1 page to that link in an effort to make it easier to access that information. You can view that page from any page of our site or directly at the link at the bottom of this page.
We will also change the format of our updates from a listserv note to a memo on our H1N1 page. These memos will be one page (more if needed) and will be able to be printed for you to share with administration or keep in a notebook for reference. The date of the update will appear at the top of the page for you to be able to quickly reference the latest release of information. We will post the Updates on an as needed basis, but anticipate having them posted on a weekly basis. Many health organizations are updating their information on Fridays, so our Updates will likely follow that pattern. We will keep the latest Update at the top of the H1N1 page and archive the Updates on a linked page so that you can continue to access them.
- H1N1 Flu Page - NYSSHSC
- H1N1 Flu Archived Update Page
