Today is our first day back to school after a much-needed holiday break. My Camden, New Jersey school district is one of two in NJ that is instituting a temporary return to universal masking following our break. I am so thankful to the team at Project N95 for providing more than 7,000 adult and 5,000 preschool-size masks for my district. The power of social media once again offers connections that would have not been possible without relationships built, albeit virtual. I “met” Marilyn Levi-Baumgarten on Twitter and learned about the mission of Project N95. The organization has delivered on its vision to Protect.Prepare.Empower communities through “equitable access to affordable, authentic” masks and other COVID-19-related products.
Please consider supporting this organization which has worked tirelessly through the pandemic to meet the needs of school districts like mine.
I am a grateful school nurse that Project N95 has enabled me to provide high-quality protection to the students and staff in my school district. My heart is as full as my car, knowing that we have the supplies to keep our school communities safe as we venture back after the break. I can’t wait to distribute them this morning!
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Published by Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN
Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN, is a Nationally Certified School Nurse (NCSN), currently in her 22nd year as a New Jersey school nurse in the Camden City School District. Robin is the Director for New Jersey to the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) Board. 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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Fantastic!!!!! I’m envious of your district’s decision to mask up for a couple of weeks and would be curious to hear how many others have taken this SENSIBLE approach.