Christina Maxwell, TSNO 2009 School Nurse of the Year Region 19		Sherry Freeland, TSNO 2009 School Nurse of the Year Region 10
Christina Maxwell is the proud mother of two lovely children. She has been a registered nurse for fifteen years. This is her twelfth year as a school nurse. She graduated from Robeson Community College in Lumberton, North Carolina in 1994 with her Associate Degree in Nursing. She returned back to school and received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 1997. She continues to pursue her master’s degree. Christina began school nursing in 1998 at Andress High School in El Paso, Texas.  Presently, she works at Barron Elementary School for El Paso Independent School District. She has implemented several programs to promote health and wellness among the faculty and the students and has been awarded grants for her school. One of her accomplishments includes being named a School Nurse Fellow through Johnson & Johnson’s School Health Leadership Institute.  Most recently, she used a grant for Leukemia Awareness at her school in honor of one of her students battling leukemia. She feels that her strong Christian beliefs have helped her become the nurse she is today.		Sherry Freeland worked as a CCU nurse for 16 years and home health nurse for 6 years. She had always volunteered at your children's schools and served on the PTA board. She approached by her son's school nurse about applying for a job in RISD. The rest is history. She has been employed for 6 years at Spring Valley Elementary which is the third lowest socioeconomic school in Richardson.  She serves a primarily Hispanic population with an enormous need for health teaching and education which is what she enjoys. Her "Super Stars Fitness Program" is an integrated approach with help from the RISD dietitians and PE to educate students and their families about how to prevent diabetes. This is an award winning program from the Texas Department of Health Services. Her energy and enthusiasm is evident in the many programs she has implemented. They involve dental programs and fund raising, school wide health videos, assist students to receive low cost or free health care, increase the number of families with Chips/Medicaid insurance, instruction to families on how to take temperatures while getting a new thermometer, participating in all school assemblies,  developing a research project with other nurses and many more. She is proud to be a school nurse and enjoys the complexity of the job which involves developing care plans for a variety of students including diabetics, severe asthmatics, and students with spinal bifida requiring urinary catheterizations and many more disease processes.