Membership in the Massachusetts School Nurse Organization offers many benefits to you. One of these is MSNOnurse, an Enews Service, a free informational e-mail service. Currently, over 60% of MSNO members with e-mail addresses are subscribed. As a member, you can subscribe by sending a BLANK e-mail to:

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Subscribing provides benefits to both you and the organization. You stay up to date with late-breaking news about school nursing and school health issues on both the state and national level. Anne Sheetz, Director, MDPH SHS, sends weekly reports about school health issues in Massachusetts. Clinical updates on pandemic flu, diabetes, emergency preparedness, health and nutrition education, etc. are issued on a frequent basis. MSNO's Policy Strategists send Legislative Alerts and Fact Sheets which allow timely contact with state legislators and officials. Recently, legislators responded by supporting changes to Chapter 71 which gave professional status to school nurses. Currently, MSNO members are keeping legislators informed about the Essential School Health Services so that they will be adequately funded in the 2008 budget.

Your subscription contributes to the reduction of MSNO's mailing costs, which makes your dues money go farther. Postage stamps cost money; e-mail is free. Subscribing to MSNOnurse Service is a free e-mail service both for you and MSNO. Nothing is deducted from your annual dues. Volunteers staff the service. Your MSNOnurse subscription allows the money saved to be used for educational conferences, funding MSNO's legislative consultant, maintaining alliances with other professional and health organizations and meeting pressing organizational needs.

Confidentiality of members' e-mail addresses has been an essential part of MSNOnurse. In the interest of privacy, Topica.com requires that you confirm your e-mail address before your subscription is activated. Only you, not MSNO, can subscribe you to this free service.

All messages from MSNO Enews Service are archived by Topica.com. You can access all messages sent since June 2001 and refer to information that might otherwise be lost to you. Members using the archive free up their e-mail inbox and save e-mail downloading time. To access the archive after logging in, subscribers may go to:

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As a member of MSNO, you may take advantage of this free service to further both yourself and your organization. By subscribing to MSNOnurse you join your colleagues in empowering MSNO to assist all school nurses as well as the organizations, students and families that benefit from their expertise.

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