http://news.fasn.net Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:44:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://news.fasn.net/http:/news.fasn.net/2010/06/21/sample-post/ http://news.fasn.net/http:/news.fasn.net/2010/06/21/sample-post/#comments Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:27:23 +0000 webmaster http://news.fasn.net/?p=25 Continue reading →]]> Putting the Pieces Together

 

        Have you ever put together a puzzle?  Finding the edge pieces first so you knew the boundaries and the shape of the finished puzzle.  Then gradually adding the pieces to fill up the middle until, satisfied, you looked at a complete picture or frustrated, you looked at a picture with missing pieces and wondered where they were.  And if too many pieces are missing, you aren’t even sure what shape those pieces or that puzzle are supposed to be.

 

        School nursing often seems to be a huge puzzle.  There are so many pieces and it can be hard to find the edges.  At the end of the day, we are sure there must be missing pieces. In the last issue of FASNating News, we discussed the expanding role of school nursing.  Our expanding role has made the puzzle even larger.

 

        As a school nurse, your role is to improve the health and educational success of your students.  As your professional organization, FASN’s role is to support school nurses statewide by developing and providing the leadership necessary to advance the practice of school nursing.  Simply put, our role is to help school nurses put the pieces together. . . and if there is a piece missing, to help you find it.

 

        In this issue of FASNating News are articles from our scholarship winners to the national conference, articles on food allergies, brain injuries, self-inflicted violence and others.  There are also articles from some of our partner organizations, resources that can help us put the pieces together.  Finally, our own Board has information for us on Advocacy, Legislation, Problem Solving-Response to Intervention, Regional News, Elections, and the quest for next year’s School Nurse of the Year.

 

This year’s state conference, School Nursing: Putting the Pieces Together, is designed to improve your school nursing skills in all areas whether you are dealing with a student with seizures, asthma, diabetes, allergies or need more information on immunizations or STD’s or looking to address the issues of a professional school nurse.  We are planning 2 full days of learning with over 12 CEU’s!  This conference is designed to improve the skills of all school nurses in the school setting.  Our standards are set high.  We looked at the criteria for national certification and at last year’s evaluations as we chose the topics we would cover. 

 

In my office, hanging on the wall, is a beautiful framed picture.  When you get up close and really examine it, it’s hundreds of puzzle pieces that have been put together and framed to show the whole picture.  Our jobs, as school nurses, are hundreds of puzzle pieces interlocking and put together to make a whole.  The goal of FASN is to put a frame around it and place it on display so all can see its beauty.  Each day, as you go into work, you bring more of these pieces together.  As more and more school nurses join FASN, our frame becomes larger and larger. School nursing truly is a thing of beauty!

Kathy

Kathleen C. Rose, RN MHA NCSN
President, Florida Association of School Nurses
President@FASN.net

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