Meet our new Alaska State School Health Nurse Consultant - Wendy Williams, BSN, RN, NCSN

Wendy has been a registered nurse for 21 years and has a background in pediatric behavioral and mental health, internal medicine, maternal and neonatal health, pediatrics, and public health.  The last 6 months, Wendy had the pleasure of working with Barb Pennington and the School Nursing/Health Services Program, under contract with the CDC Foundation, as a school nurse consultant since January 2022.  During this time, she had the pleasure to support the rural school district health services/school nurses in school health topics, mentor new rural school nurses, update state guidance manuals for medication and emergency medication administration training for unlicensed school staff and participate in the State-wide School Health/Nursing Advisory Committee.  During the first two years of the pandemic, she worked for the Anchorage Health Department as a Public Health Nurse and Nursing Supervisor for Immunization Services and COVID Response, focusing on COVID response, immunization services, epidemiological communicable disease investigation, and community outreach where she was able to support municipal COVID case investigation, monitoring, contact tracing, COVID testing, COVID vaccination, and overseeing the municipal contracts for the same services as well as supervising mass vaccination POD.  Prior to that, Wendy was a school nurse for 14 years with the Anchorage School District where she worked with students, pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, predominantly in Title I schools.  She grew up in Alaska and currently lives in Anchorage with her two teenage children and two huskies.  They enjoy spending time at their family cabin north of Willow where they snowmachine, four-wheel, and get out in nature. 

 
Wendy A. Williams, BSN RN NCSN (she/her/hers)
State School Nurse Consultant II
School Nursing/Health Services Program
Women, Children, and Family Health | Division of Public Health 
Department of Health | State of Alaska
907.269.7368 Office
907.744.5567 Work Cell
                                     email: wendy.williams2@alaska.gov