Schedule
Saturday, Sept 25
2:00pm – 6:00pm
Cabinet on Economic and General Welfare meeting
Sunday, Sept 26
9:00am – 12:00pm
Cabinet on Economic and General Welfare meeting
12:00pm – 1:30pm
Early Registration
1:30pm – 5: 30pm
Fall Local Unit Council Meeting
All are welcome to attend.
Monday, Sept 27
7:30am – 8:30am
Breakfast
8:30am – 9:00am
Welcome
9:00am – 10:00am
Keynote Address
Confident Voices
Nurses have enormous potential to transform healthcare! This presentation will teach us how to transform that potential into real problem solving power! By combining stories, facts, experience and theories Ms Boynton speaks directly to the heart of many distressing problems that nurses face. By validating the experiences of nurses and providing a fresh perspective Ms Boynton promotes success and respectful work relationships that improve patient safety and nurse staffing. Come and get 'real world" advice to age-old problems.
10:00am – 10:30am
Break
10:30am – 12:00pm
Crucial Confrontations Part 1
As leaders in our local units throughout the state, we are faced daily with extreme challenges with both professional and personal demands! This award-winning training teaches participants straightforward step-by-step processes for dealing with difficult problems and people in the workplace. We will explore and practice using: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior. Learn how to step up and lead the way to solve problems and save relationships.
12:00pm – 1:15pm
Lunch
1:15pm – 2:45pm
Crucial Confrontations Part 2
2:45pm – 3:00pm
Break
3:00pm – 4:30pm
Concurrent Sessions 1
A. Organizing Your Local Unit
- Jan Bussert, RN
- Tara Goode, BA, BSN, RN
- Mara Kieval, RN
The key to having strong and effective local units begins with internal organizing. Come hear about innovative and energized methods you can use to encourage new leaders, build your local unit rep structure and engage members to become and stay involved.
B. Advocacy Training
- Anne Tan Piazza, Dir. of Governmental Affairs, Communications, & Membership
- Lillie Cridland, Communications Specialist
- Sofia Aragon, RN, Senior Governmental Affairs Advisor
As lawmakers debate critical nursing and health care issues, it is critical that they hear from real nurses. Learn about the importance of legislative advocacy and the various ways for your voice to be heard and make a difference on important patient safety issues in Olympia such as meal and rest breaks.
C. Let's Settle This Now!
- Hanna Welander, BSN, RN, Nurse Representative
- Ed Zercher, BSN, RN, Nurse Representative
This course will help students understand the rationale and benefit of early resolution of grievances or potential grievances. Class participants will engage in learning why settling grievances and issues at the lowest level is always our goal. We will focus on what constitutes a potential grievance and discuss alternative resolutions might be more appropriate. Class participants will have opportunity to hear about and discuss examples of grievances/potential grievances that were settled to the nurses' satisfaction.
D. Labor Law's Fascinating History: A Tour through Time
Join us for this fascinating tour through time while we examine crucial milestones, hardships and victories the labor movement we have endured. You will gain a greater understanding and appreciation for those who have cut the path before us and for the work we must never give up!
4:30pm – 6:00pm
Break
6:00pm
Welcome Reception
7:00pm
E&GW Local Unit Awards Banquet
Theme for this year's banquet:
"Age of Aquarius"
Tuesday, Sept 28
7:30am – 8:30am
Breakfast
8:30am – 9:30am
Plenary Session
- Marla Weston, PhD, RN
Chief Executive Officer
American Nurses Association
Ms. Weston will discuss ANA's goals and priorities as the only full-service professional organization representing the interests of the nation's 3.1 million registered nurses through its constituent member nurses associations, its organizational affiliates, and its workforce advocacy affiliate, and the Center for American Nurses. The ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public.
9:30am – 9:45am
Break
9:45am – 11:15am
Concurrent Sessions 2
A. Organizing Your Local Unit
- Jan Bussert, RN
- Tara Goode, BA, BSN, RN
- Mara Kieval, RN
[See prior description]
B. Advocacy Training
- Anne Tan Piazza, Dir. of Governmental Affairs, Communications, & Membership
- Lillie Cridland, Communications Specialist
- Sofia Aragon, RN, Senior Governmental Affairs Advisor
[See prior description]
C. Let's Settle This Now!
- Hanna Welander, BSN, RN, Nurse Representative
- Ed Zercher, BSN, RN, Nurse Representative
[See prior description]
D. Compassion Fatigue
Caring too much can hurt. When caregivers focus on others without practicing self-care, a secondary traumatic stress disorder now labeled "Compassion Fatigue" can surface. Jeni will discuss this concept given all nurses have the potential to experience this as they care for patients and others. She will help us recognize the signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue, including behavioral, physical and spiritual and job performance changes that a nurse may experience. She will also discuss effective interventions- a first step towards healing.
11:15am – 12:15pm
Lunch / Check out
12:15pm – 12:45pm
The Voice of Labor
In unity, we have strength! Rick will speak to us all with passion and facts about our current labor movement in Washington State. Hear about how WSNA and our partnership with the Washington State Labor Council gives us collective power and strengthens our voice in our communities, among politicians and policymakers and in determining the future of organized labor in our state.
12:45pm – 1:30pm
National Federation of Nurses – National Labor Scene
- Barbara Crane, RN, President of NFN
We are honored to have our President of the NFN speak to us about the power and strength of registered nurses coming together across the nation. Today, Barbara brings to us an inspiring message of hope and endless possibilities achievable through our new federated structure national union. The NFN is committed to our goals to support, educate and assist our members in achieving their economic, workplace and practice goals on both state and national levels. Come share in our celebration of solidarity!
1:30pm – 2:30pm
End Note - Releasing the Nurse Within Us
Learn to be a champion for change in your work place by being willing to think about change, being able to talk about new thoughts and new ways of being. Class participants will learn collaborative problem solving skills to use in the workplace. We will learn to avoid contributing to the dysfunction while focusing on ways to optimize, cope with and seek alternative experiences! Come prepared and learn to be proactive in establishing a healthy work-life balance!