School nurse colleagues, here is an interesting opportunity to be part of the political process by sharing how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has positively impacted the health of your students and families. A politically minded ad group is looking for a school nurse from any of the three battleground states of WI, MI, and PA to be cast in an ad promoting the importance of supporting the ACA. If you would like more information, please contact writer producer Wendy Lehmann via email: marston.lehmann@gmail.com
Here is a message from Wendy:
I am a writer and producer working with a group called Creative Resistance making political ads to run in WI, MI, and PA in the next few months. We are looking to cast a real school nurse to talk about how the ACA has helped the students and families they see through their work in a public school. The ad is paid for by a group called Open Labs/https://www.futureforwardusa.org/. They did a lot of ads for the midterms and they did a lot of research on those ads, and which ones resonated. What they found was that real people talking in a compassionate way about what is important to them worked. Actors don’t work. Being snide about Trump doesn’t work. It’s real people talking about what they care about–that works. The ads are not affiliated with a politician, but just issue ads, with protecting the ACA and expanded Medicaid being the message. If you know anyone who fits this profile or anyone who interacts with school nurses, please let me know. The crew would come to the person being featured and the ads would run in the three battleground states.
Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN is a Nationally Certified School Nurse (NCSN), currently in her 21st year as a New Jersey school nurse in the Camden City School District. Robin is the Legislative Co-chair for the New Jersey State School Nurses Association. She is proud to be a Johnson & Johnson School Health Leadership Fellow and past Program Mentor. Robin is the honored recipient of multiple awards for her work in school nursing and population health. These awards include, 2019 and 2020 National Association of School Nurses President’s Award, 2018 NCSN School Nurse of the Year, 2017 Johnson & Johnson School Nurse of the Year, and the New Jersey Department of Health 2017 Population Health Hero Award. Robin serves as faculty in the School Nurse Certificate Program at Rutgers University-Camden School of Nursing, where she teaches the next generation of school nurses. She was presented the 2018 Rutgers University – Camden Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award for Part-time Faculty. Robin writes a weekly blog called The Relentless School Nurse. She also writes a monthly column in My American Nurse, the official journal of the American Nurses Association. Robin’s work is included as a case study in The Future of Nursing Report 2020-2030. You can follow Robin on Twitter at @RobinCogan.
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