Tanya Sullivan, DNP, APRN, CNP
Assistant Clinical Director / Family Nurse Practitioner, Brown University Health Services
President, New England College Health Association
Greetings NECHA!
I hope this letter finds you well as we enter the spring semester. January always brings a feeling of renewal however this month feels particularly sanguine. Despite a year of unprecedented tumult, daylight hours continue to be two minutes longer each day and we have almost an hour of extra sunlight compared to last month.
Our first virtual annual meeting in December, Health Equity: Light the Way, could not have been such a success without the help of so many talented volunteers. Whether you presented a workshop, facilitated a focus group or track lunch, or helped with behind the scenes planning your impact was felt and appreciated. I’m pleased to say that we had 197 attendees, 29 concurrent workshop sessions, ten discussion groups and seven continuing education options offered. Attendees should have received virtual swag and each institution was also sent a copy of Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily & Amelia Nagoski, the amazing and authentic keynote speakers.
The theme for next year’s annual meeting is… Read More
In lieau of the NECHA Awards in 2020, we decided to recognize all the amazing work being done by college healthcare providers with our kudoboard for NECHA 2020. Please take a look and feel free to add! Thank you to everyone for all your amazing work and dedication in 2020 and beyond!!
As an affiliate of the American College Health Association (ACHA), we defer to them for all position statements. Those can be found on their website here.