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March School Nurse Conference filled to capacity!
OSHNA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
March 15 and 16, 2010
“Advancing School Nurse Practice”
featuring FOUR prominent stateside speakers
Novotel Hotel
Kaiserslautern, Germany
Thank you members and guests for the overwhelming response in pre-registration for the Overseas School Nurse Conference .
About OSHNA
Overseas School Health Nurse Association (OSHNA)
OSHNA is the professionalorganization for Registered Nurses employed overseas as School Nurses.
The organization is unified with the NationalAssociation of School Nurses (NASN).
Last year, we had over 103 members, located in 12 countries, from India throughout Europe, and the Pacific.
Visit NASN's website www.nasn.org
Membership fees for NASN include OSHNA membership.
Membership categories include:
- Active membership in the Association shall be open to any registered, professional nurse employed overseas as a school nurse.
Upon payment of annual dues active members are entitled to full
membership privileges.
- Associate membership shall be open to any others with a vested interest
in school health. Upon payment of dues, associate
members are entitled
to all privileges except voting and holding office.
- Retired membership shall be any school nurse who is an OSHNA member and upon retirement shall be eligible to become a
retired member upon
notification of the Board of Directors. Retired members retain all
privileges, except voting and holding office.
- Member-at-large shall be persons who hold a special interest in or who
are working with OSHNA and who do not fit any other
membership
classification. Members-at-large have all privileges except those of
voting, holding office, and serving on a committee.
The Board of Directors meets more than quarterly per year. Technology allows members to meet by video conferences and
electronically, on a daily basis. Board members meet on their own time
and expense to work for the entire organization. The Board works with
the National Association of School Nurses and other organizations to
advance the practice of overseas school nursing DoDDS. There is an OSHNA
newsletter mailed/e-mailed to members twice a year. OSHNAç—´ website is
found at http://www.oshna.org. Here
members can find the latest information from the organization and links
to other sites of interest. OSHNA interprets overseas DoDDS School
Nursing to Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) and NASN, as
we are a unique group working under our own state licenses in an
overseas setting.
OSHNA was instrumental in insuring that there is at least one school
nurse in every school in the DoDDS system.
According to NASN, we are
ranked 4th for nurse to student ratio within all NASN affiliates.
OSHNA leaders are in communication with the Department of Defense
Dependent Schools leadership. Issues being addressed include:
- a new nurses in-service held early in each school
year,
- administrative leave (TDY) for an OSHNA annual
conference,
- nursing leadership within the administrative levels
of DoDDS,
- appropriate school nursing staffing,
- a yearly conference, brining the most up-to-date
information on school health to our members,
- continuing the work on the Health Services Guide
which sets the acceptable standard for our comprehensive school health
programs,
- a unified job description
- representation of School Nurse issues to respective bargaining agencies (FEA/OFT)
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