What We Are Up To:
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ECSNA invites you to join us for our Back-to-school Check-in Zoom meeting on Wednesday, September 17, 2025 at 4:00pm. Please register for this meeting by clicking here so that we can send you our Zoom link.
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Wednesday, October 29th at 4:00pm in-person educational program: "From Collapse to Care: Managing Cardiac Arrest in the School Setting" at the West Orange Public Library. Please register for this meeting by clicking here so that we can send you our Zoom link. Presented by Michael Riley, Director, Resuscitation Education
Michael Riley has over 18 years of experience in emergency medicine and resuscitation. He has worked as a nationally registered paramedic in the pre-hospital and in-hospital settings. As an innovative leader, he is currently the Director of Cooper University Health Care's Center for Resuscitation Education & Community Engagement in Camden, New Jersey. Mike focuses on the importance of preventing cardiac arrest, promoting early recognition and management of a deteriorating patient, providing high-quality CPR, and ensuring the best post-arrest care. Mike has built a community engagement team to reduce the disparities in CPR, educate everyone on the life-saving skills of CPR, and teach them how to use an AED. Mike has worked to bring resuscitation education to underserved communities and is implementing an AED community donation program in partnership with the Cooper University Foundation to allow access to more public AEDs.
Location: West Orange Public Library, 10 Rooney Circle
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A dinner program is being planned for Bergen, Essex and Passaic County School Nurses in October sponsored by New Bridge Medical Center. We will keep you posted on the date for this program
Outside Educational Opportunities:
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Breakthrough T1D is offering a free T1D School Nurse Virtual Training on Tuesday, September 30 from 4:30-6pm. Perfect timing for back-to-school! The Flyer is attached with the link to register and here’s the link to the event on the website: T1D School Nurse Virtual Training.
Our thanks to Kristin Sabanosh MSN, APN, CPNP, CDCES, Clinical Coordinator of Pediatric Endocrinology, Certified
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist, for sharing this educational opportunity.
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Training Announcement : Fall 2025 Basic Course for Principles of Infection Prevention and Control
Dates: Available October 6, 2025, thru 11:59 PM on October 20, 2025Virtual Access
Place: (as recorded during April 2025 in-person course)
(VIRTUAL) – registration opens August 18th! The Northeastern Infection Control Educators (NICE) Are Excited to
Announce a Refreshed and Condensed Virtual Educational Series.
This course is designed to provide basic information on a variety of infection control and prevention topics to help prepare the new Infection Preventionist, or person responsible for Infection Prevention and Control, to perform the duties required in various types of healthcare settings.
Virtual access will be available only from October 6, 2025, through 11:59 PM on October 20, 2025. Prior
registration is required and will be available only from August 18th through October 1st, 2025.
If nursing contact hours are needed, you MUST follow the additional instructions provided in your registration confirmation email (additional, separate, registration for contact hours is required). Please see the attached flyer for more information.
If you have additional questions, please contact:
Gail via telephone at (973) 650-1018 or
This activity was planned and developed jointly by the New Jersey Department of Health and the Northern and Southern New Jersey APIC (Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology) Chapters.
Description: This course is designed to provide basic information on a variety of infection control and prevention topics to help prepare the new Infection Preventionist, or person responsible for Infection Prevention and Control, to perform the duties required in various types of healthcare settings.
Learner outcomes include:
Upon completion of this activity, attendees will be able to identify the major components of an Infection Prevention and Control Program.
Registration: August 18, 2025, thru 11:59 PM on October 1, 2025
Please click HERE to register for the course
Please Note: Course registration does not include registration to receive nursing contact hours. If contact hours are needed, you must register for them separately once you are registered for the course.
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$350.00 credit card payment only at the time of registration. PO and vouchers NOT accepted.
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Please see the attached flyer for the Infection Prevention and Control course.
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Save the date: Thursday, October 16th, 2025 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm for the RWJBarnabas Health Children's Kidney Center Annual Symposium: Prevention and Treatment of Kidney Disease in Children. Location: St. Barnabas Medical Center. More information to follow.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 8:00am to 3:20pm (Registration & Exhibits begin at 7:00am) NJAAP 34th Annual School Health Conference
NJAAP Members Only Early Bird Rate: $215 available until 8/15/2025, $295 for non-members (includes a year membership to NJAAP), NJSSNA members of NJAAP rate: $165 (register through your NJAAP account to receive this discount) - Cancellation policy: No refunds after August 15th.
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The USAsthma Summit this year is Friday, November 7, 2025 at the Hyatt Regency Orlando, Orlando, Florida. You can attend in-person or join them remotely via their interactive livestream. You can learn more about the USAsthma Summit by clicking here.
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