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Our Purpose:

To promote student academic success by supporting school nurses in providing quality school health services to all school communities throughout the state of Alabama.

Our Goals:

• Provide leadership in advancing school nurse practice by offering education and supportive services to school nurses and school communities.
• Increase health and wellness education within the school community.
• Provide support in decreasing the nurse: student ratio to meet standards set forth by the National Association of School Nurses.
• Increase public awareness of good health practices, children’s health concerns, and the practice of school nursing.
• Increase support of the AASN, Inc. through membership, including school nurses, educators, health partners, parents and the community.

Our History:

On April 30, 1970 school nurses attended a workshop, “The Nurse and the School Child” at the University of Alabama. The organization, then called the Alabama School Nurses Association was officially organized May 26, 1970, in Birmingham. Then, on March 15,1972, the name was changed to the Department of School Nurses under the Alabama Education Association. Later, the name was changed once again to become the Alabama Association of School Nurses (AASN) to avoid confusion with the Alabama State Nurses Association (ASNA). In 2006, the AASN be-came incorporated as a non-profit organization under section 501(c)(3) of the federal tax code.