COVID-19 Resources:

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

• Minnesota Department of Health (MDH).

• Minnesota Department of Health Schools and Child Care COVID-19 Best Practice Recommendations

• National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN)

• NCSBN's International Center for Regulatory Scholarship (ICRS)
  ICRS is offering a series of free online COVID-19 courses for health care professionals. 

• NCSBN Policy Statement: Dissemination of Non-scientific and Misleading COVID-19 Information by Nurses
  The Minnesota Board of Nursing adopted the NCSBN Policy Statement which addresses the misinformation being disseminated about COVID-19 by nurses.

• Office of Governor Tim Walz and Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan

• Recommendations for Improving National Nurse Preparedness for Pandemic Response: Early Lessons from COVID-19
  In June 2020, the John Hopkins Center for Health Security published Recommendations for Improving National Nurse Preparedness for Pandemic Response: Early Lessons from COVID-19

• State of Minnesota Emergency Executive Order 21-21
  Safely Sunsetting COVID-19 Public Health Restrictions

• Vaccinator Update
  Effective January 28, 2021, the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP) amended to increase workforce authorized to administer COVID-19 vaccines. In addition, HHS provides additional resources related to the PREP Act Declaration and PREP Act FAQs.