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Cross-Sector Collaboration Tools The CDC / Bureau of Justice Assistance "Public Health and Law Enforcement Emergency Preparedness Workgroup" has released two tools designed to improve cross-sectoral and cross-jurisdictional preparedness for public health emergencies. The first, “A Framework for Improving Cross-Sector Coordination for Emergency Preparedness and Response: Action Steps for Public Health, Law Enforcement, Corrections, and the Judiciary,” details background on and opportunities for strengthening cross-sectoral and cross-jurisdictional emergency preparedness. The second is a guide for developing a memorandum of understanding for coordinated cross-sector implementation of community response measures to contagious respiratory diseases such as influenza. More information and available documents Dismissal of School Children
in the Context of Pandemic Influenza In the News Iowa schools stretch to meet nursing law Dozens of school districts in Iowa are scrambling to meet the
requirements of a 2007 law making school nurses mandatory. According to
state records, at least 38 small school districts have no registered
nurses on staff. The average salary for a registered nurse in Iowa is
more than $35,000 a year -- a price many rural districts cannot afford.
"There seems to be a shortage of [nurses] in all areas right now, and
they could earn a pretty good wage going to the hospitals or clinics.
How does the school compete with that?" asked Rick Pederson,
superintendent of the Sumner and Fredericksburg school districts. The
law does not specify a minimum number of hours per week the nurse must
work, and some districts have gotten creative about meeting the
requirement.
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