Lisa Kern MSN, RN, NCSN, is the Director for the State of Florida Association of School Nurses and on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN). That Tweet was posted on February 17th.
Three days earlier, on February 14th, a mass shooting was committed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Seventeen people were killed and seventeen more were wounded, making it one of the world’s deadliest school massacres.
On March 24th, School Nurse Kern and school nurses across the nation joined thousands in March for Our Lives protests in Washington, DC and throughout the country to advocate for school safety and gun control.
NASNA has a policy statement on gun violence, Common Sense Solutions Needed to Keep Students Safe – School Violence – The Role of the School Nurse in Prevention. The 2018 NASN Legislative Priorities urges Congress to pass the Nurses for Under-Resourced Schools Everywhere (NURSE) Act. This bill establishes a competitive demonstration grant program to increase the number of school nurses in public elementary and secondary schools. The bill was introduced in the Senate by Jon Tester (D-Mont.) Senate Bill – NURSE ACT 2018 you can see the Senate co-sponsors and bill actions here. and introduced in the House by Dina Titus (D-Nev.) HR 5251 –
HealthCetera co-producer and host Barbara Glickstein talks with School Nurse Kern about the role of school nurses in preventing violence and the need for gun safety in our country in this segment of HealthCetera:
You can follow Lisa Kern on Twitter: @Lkern12 and the National Association of School Nurses @schoolnurses
Special Thanks to Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, Faculty – Rutgers-Camden School Nurse Certificate Program, Johnson & Johnson School Health Fellow and Nationally Certified School Nurse for permission to use #SchoolNursesDemandAction Photo Credit:Cogan/Knapp
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