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NASN is very excited about getting together for NASN2021. This is NASN's annual event that brings together school nurses and others in the school community. We are ready to gather, to celebrate and to educate how school nurses are Leading the Way in Transforming Student Health . NASN is counting on you to help spread the word! The NASN Affiliate toolkit will who you how. It includes web, newsletter and social media messages to share with your audiences at least 1-2 times per week until the week of the conference. If you have any questions about these materials, please contact Jen McNally at jmcnally@nasn.org. Thank you for your leadership and your support! ...

Submitted by Paula McCoy, President of the West Virginia Association of School Nurses, this transcript of conversation with Brenda Isaac, RN on March 16, 2018 regarding the history of WVASN in honor of NASN’s 50 th anniversary. Brenda Isaac is currently the WVASN Executive Secretary and has served as the affiliate’s Past President, and she has been recognized as the West Virginia School Nurse Administrator of the Year. Q: Tell us about the history of WVASN . In 1991 we were the WV School Health Association and it included other professions, i.e. counselors and social workers. NASN offered a training on Emergency First Aid” train the trainer” program ...

Are you a goal setter? List maker? Challenger? I am. Something new each year. January 2017: I decided to enter the Tough Mudder Challenge Those obstacles are TOUGH! This was the hardest for me—Everest 2.0 That's not me in the video, but you get the idea I WANTED to get to the top. I kept trying. I made it—only after a stranger said –Ma’am, you are going to get OVER the top—six or seven guys stood on each other’s shoulders with their backs to the wall, I climbed up to the top man – standing there, reaching my arms as high as I could to stretch to the 8 or nine pairs of hands reaching down – listening to dozens of voices shouting encouragement--I ...