The new WSNA contract includes some of the most significant improvements we've negotiated in years, but the work doesn't stop at ratification. Now it's time to ensure these provisions are fully implemented and that every nurse understands the new tools available to improve staffing, scheduling, breaks, and patient care.

Over the next six weeks, WSNA will be hosting a series of 90-minute interactive education sessions every Thursday, with two sessions each day (7:45 a.m. and 5 p.m.) to improve access for both day and night shift nurses.

Location: Columbia Room 1 (all sessions)

Each week's session will focus on a specific group of departments, but all bargaining unit nurses are welcome to attend any session if they are unable to attend their department's scheduled week.

Topics Include:

✅ Scheduling Workgroup authority and unit-specific scheduling rules
✅ Washington meal and rest break law
✅ Hospital Staffing Committee (HSC) authority and staffing plan review
✅ Understanding and using your unit staffing plan
✅ Assignment Despite Objection (ADO) documentation
✅ The new Break Compliance Review Memorandum of Agreement
✅ Contract enforcement and how nurses can help document staffing and break compliance
✅ Questions, discussion, and sharing best practices across departments

Weekly Schedule

🗓 Week 1 – July 16
Critical Care & Emergency Services

• Emergency Department
• Freestanding ED
• ICU
• 9RP

🗓 Week 2 – July 23
Women's & Children's Services

• Labor & Delivery
• Mother Baby
• NICU
• Pediatrics

🗓 Week 3 – July 30
Procedural Services

• Clinical Decision Unit (CDU)
• Operating Room
• Peri-Anesthesia Unit (PAU)
• Pre-Admission Testing (PAT)
• Endoscopy
• Cardiac Cath & Pre/Post

🗓 Week 4 – August 6
Acute Care I

• 3OP
• 4OP
• 4RP
• Resource Team

🗓 Week 5 – August 13
Acute Care II

• 6RP
• 7RP
• 8RP
• Resource Team

🗓 Week 6 – August 20
Make-Up Session – Open to All Bargaining Unit Nurses

These sessions are more than contract education, they're an opportunity to strengthen your department's Scheduling Workgroup, better understand your rights and responsibilities and help ensure the improvements we negotiated are implemented as intended.

Whether you're a new nurse or have been at Kadlec for years, your participation matters. We hope you'll join us and help shape the future of staffing, scheduling, and patient care at Kadlec.

We fought for these improvements. Now let's put them to work!

WSNA Kadlec Officers and WSNA Nurse Representative

Meri Bukovisnky – CDU, WSNA Chair
Jamie Woodall – FSED, Vice Chair
Crystal Rivera – ED, Member at Large
Milari Romero – ICU, Member at Large
Deborah Langston – PACU, Grievance Officer
Anita Dennis – PACU, Grievance Officer
Jessica Cardenas – 4RP, Grievance Officer
Jamie White – 9RP, Secretary/Treasurer

WSNA Nurse Representative Jennifer Jackson at jjackson@wsna.org.