Join in this important social media initiative created by Marion Leary and Dr. Tim Raderstorf to promote the wide scope of how nurses impact their communities. Use the hashtag #AsANurse and share your story. Fill in the number of years you have been a nurse and share how you have impacted your community through nursing. Remember to include #AsANurse and post on your social media platforms!
Here is my #AsANurse story:
In my 37 years #AsANurse I have…
- Devoted 21 years of my career to school nursing
- Held Community Cafes for parents to share concerns, challenges & triumphs
- Co-founded a community collaborative to improve health outcomes for students
- Co-principal investigator for two grants
- Faculty in school nurse certification program where I teach the next generation
- Preceptor for nursing students
- Preceptor for school nursing students
- Worked through a global pandemic
- Published in peer reviewed journals
- Published Op Eds in Newsweek, CNN Opinion & USA Today
- Interviewed on CNN twice
- Become a Johnson & Johnson School Health Leadership Fellow
- Inducted as a Fellow in The American Academy of Nursing
- Published an article in Current Trauma Reports
- Invited by Representative Lauren Underwood to speak at a press conference about the impact of gun violence in schools
- Been an opening and closing keynote speaker
- Provided care to 900 students in a PK – 8th grade school, by myself, for 12 years
- Started a blog with over 400,000 views and more than 600 posts
- Edited an edition of a school nursing certification review book
- Edited a chapter in a school nursing textbook
- Collaborated with colleagues I met on Twitter outside of nursing
- Presented at the American College of Surgeons conference about gun violence in schools
- Presented at a pediatric surgical conference about gun violence in schools
- Co-creator of an online Twitter conference along with amazing colleagues through Nursing Mutual Aid
- Testified before NJ legislators about school health issues
- Peer-reviewer for several nursing journals
- Board member for state and national nursing organizations
- Advisory board member for non-nursing organization
- Write a monthly column in My American Nurse
- Recepient of multiple awards for advocacy work in school nursing
- Quoted in The New York Times
- Use social media as part of my school nursing practice (thank you Barbara Glickstein)
- Teach and encourage other nurses to use social media too
- Interviewed by Lisa Ling about school reopening
- Spent 10 summers as an overnight camp nurse
