Considerations for Reopening U.S. Schools of Nursing During COVID-19
Webinar Details & Objectives
This webinar will focus on the risks that colleges and universities face when re-starting in-person classes during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the planning and mitigation measures that can help reduce risk. It will include a brief review of the landscape of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US and decisions that colleges and universities have made around reopening. It will cover topics including testing, isolation, quarantine, contact tracing, and indicators to inform decisions about increasing or reducing in-person activities.
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Webinar Resources
View the On-Demand COVID-19 related webinars, listed below:
- Making Informed Decisions in Response to COVID-19
- F.A.S.T: Academic Nurse Educators Respond to COVID-19
- Bridging the Gap- Implementing Technology to Deliver Courses Online
- A Call to Leadership: Navigating Uncharted Waters
- Aligning Simulation within COVID-19 Contingency Plans
- COVID-19: Update from Nursing Leadership on the Front Lines
- Teaching Nursing Students How to Manage Crisis During COVID-19
- COVID-19: Breaking Through Denial to Action
- COVID-19 Series: Techniques to Teach Assessment Online NOW!
- Public Health: Nursing Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Considering Pass or No Pass education in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Public Health Insight into the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Creating Calm and Civility during Uncertain Times
- Interprofessional Teaching and Collaborative Practice During COVID-19: A Community Conversation
- Moving Your Admissions Process Online During COVID-19
- Making the Pivot: Online Learning During COVID-19
- Preparing & Transitioning Students to Telehealth Clinical Hours in Graduate Education
- Strategic Diversity Leadership & Culturally Relevant Decision-Making During COVID-19
- COVID-19 Implications for Admissions and the Stability of Holistic Admissions Practices
- What is the New Normal? Guidance for Reopening & Returning to Campus
- Addressing the Collective Mental Health Burden Imposed by COVID-19
- Improving Nurse Preparedness for a Pandemic Response: Implications for U.S. Schools of Nursing
- Enhancing Public Trust and Health with COVID-19 Vaccination: Planning Recommendations
- Hosting a Virtual White Coat/Oath Ceremony
- Innovations in Personal Protective Equipment
These webinars are free and open to the public. Recordings of the webinars will be available soon after the webinars air.
Speaker

Senior Scholar, Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Dr. Watson is a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her policy research focuses on public health risk assessment, crisis and risk-based decision making, public health and healthcare preparedness and response, biodefense, and emerging infectious disease preparedness and response. During COVID-19 Dr. Watson has produced research and policy analysis related to burden of disease; contact tracing; and risk assessment and mitigation steps for reopening businesses, holding mass gatherings, and bringing students back to campus in the fall. Dr. Watson earned a DrPH in Health Policy and Management in 2017, and an MPH in 2009, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Professor of Nursing and Public Health, Visiting Scholar
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Tener Goodwin Veenema, PhD, MPH, MS, is a Contributing Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and a Professor of Nursing and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. At the Center, she leads research projects to explore health systems optimization and healthcare worker protection during disasters and large-scale biological events. She also serves as an Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Health Security (formerly Biosecurity and Bioterrorism). As an internationally recognized expert in disaster nursing and public health emergency preparedness, she has served as senior scientist to the DHHS Office of Human Services Emergency Preparedness and Response (OHSEPR), Department of Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs Emergency Management Evaluation Center (VEMEC), and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). An accomplished researcher, Dr. Veenema has sustained career funding over 2.2 million dollars, is a member of the Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness at the National Academy of Medicine, and is an elected Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, the National Academies of Practice, and the Royal College of Surgeons, Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery, Dublin, Ireland. Dr. Veenema is editor of Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness for Chemical, Biological and Radiological Terrorism and Other Hazards, 4th Ed., the leading textbook in the field. Dr. Veenema received the Florence Nightingale Medal of Honor (International Red Crescent, 2013) the highest international award in Nursing for her professional service in disasters and public health emergencies. She received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award (2017), was selected Visiting Research Scholar to Torrens Disaster Institute (Australia, 2017) and New York University (2018,) and received a lifetime achievement award from Columbia University School of Nursing (2019).
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free to deans, faculty, staff and students from AACN member and nonmember schools.
Continuing Education Credits
CE will not be offered for this webinar.