title: Creating a living document. The National Association of School Nurses Strategic Plan 1998-2001.
abstract: In all organizations, periodic assessments are prudent investments in the future. For the National Association of School Nurses (NASN), the dramatic changes in health care and their influence on school nurses, the shifting needs of schoolchildren, the ending of the time frame of NASN's previous strategic plan, and the need to better position the Association to identify and provide for the current and future needs of the membership, led NASN leaders and management staff to initiate an assessment of member needs. This assessment is the prelude to the development of the 1998-2001 Strategic Plan. The way in which it was accomplished--and the impact on school nurses--is described in the first of a series of three articles. Two future Nursing Practice Management section articles will discuss the Association's mission statement and suggest strategic planning for all school health programs as well as the implementation of the seven goals in the 1998-2001 National Association of School Nurses Strategic Plan.
authors.affiliation: Office of the Kern County Superintendent of Schools, Division of Special Education, Bakersfield, California, USA.
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Brandt
mesh_terms: D005544:Forecasting; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D016134:Organizational Policy; D010934:Planning Techniques; D012573:School Nursing / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012956:Societies, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States