News from IASN

Congratulations to Robin Stirlen, our School Nurse of the Year and Sandy Burnette, our School Nurse Administrator of the Year!  See more information about our winners in the discussion list email from 3/18/24.  We are proud of all of our wonderful excellent School Nurses in our state!

The conference will once again be held at the Embassy Suites in Plainfield, IN on June 4th and 5th, with a preconference day on June 3rd.  The conference is free to all this year.  See the discussion post from 3/5 for more information.  Conference website: Register Here

The IASN annual conference will once again be held in Noblesville, Indiana at the Embassy Suites and Conference Center on November 20th and 21st.  Please check the conference tab on the IASN website for updates as they are posted.  Hope to see you all there!

Please consider joining Indiana nurses from other nursing associations at the Indiana legislature on February 20th 10 AM to 1 PM.  Come educate or Indiana legislators about school nursing issues. Click on the registration link to register and/or for more information: https://indiananurses.nursingnetwork.com/nursing-events/142639-2024-nurses-day-at-the-statehouse#!info

Please submit nominations now for School Nurse and School Nurse Administrator of the Year!  Here is the link to the Awards page and nomination form: Awards - Indiana Association of School Nurses (inasn.org)  Contact Deb Robarge directly if you have any questions.

Please see this month's Journal of School Nursing to read about the research that Dr. Tanner did on non-epileptic seizures in adolescents: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10598405231218287

We are very proud of you and so happy you call Indiana home!

Please send me your great photos from the recent IASN conference!  Also please send me photos of any activities you are doing at your school!

Welcome to all who have registered for our IASN conference tomorrow in Noblesville at the Embassy Suites and Conference center - we have a great agenda and interesting vendors waiting for you tomorrow! Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Check out these free CDC created resources about Infection Control brought to you by IDOH and the University of Indianapolis.  We could all use a review in infection control.

The IASN executive board recently met and elected Tori LaMotte our new President- Elect.  Tori will be working closely with Joy to learn the ropes of the annual conference.  Tori is the district nurse of the Garrett-Keyser-Butler CSD.  Welcome Tori!

Congratulations to our 2023 School Nurse Administrator of the Year, Esther Moeller, nurse supervisor at Perry township schools!

Congratulations to our 2023 School Nurse of the Year, Ryan Kandel, school nurse at the Sycamore School in Indianapolis!

Stakeholders from HS sports gathered to meet on Friday, April 21st at Gainbridge Field House in Indianapolis to discuss prevention of HS sports injuries. The two life-threatening topics discussed were sudden cardiac arrest and heat exhaustion prevention.  Representatives from the Athletic Trainers Association, IHSAA, superintendents, EMTs and scool nursing were in attendance at this meeting sponsored by the Korey Stringer Institute. It was good to be at the table with these stakeholders!