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Happy New Year!
2007
 Volume 36, No. 4
 Winter 2006
2 Calendar of Eents3 You Were Represented4 2007 Legislatie Priorities5 2007 Legislatie Platform7 2007 Legislatie Agenda8 Nurse Legislatie Day 11 E&GW Update12 Patient & Nurse Safety Update13 Health & Safety Update15 Immunization Update16 Nursing Practice Update19 WSNA Dues - WhereThey Go20 ANA News23 District News24 Nursing & Other NewsBriefs24 In Memoriam25 Continuing EducationCalendar26 Membership DepartmentNews27 New Members29 2007 WSNA Conention
Inside...5 Million Lives Campaign • Can Hospitals Cause Asthma? • Continued Competance
2007 Legislative Session
Page 4
Immunization Update
Page 15
 
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The Washington Nurse
Issue 36, No. 3
 Vm 36, N. 4
Winter 2006 
WashiNgtoN state Nurses associatioN
575 Andover Park West, Suite 101Seattle, WA 98188, Tel: 206/575-7979Fax: 206/575-1908, wsna@wsna.org
the WashiNgtoN Nurse
—(ISSN# 0734-5666)newsmagazine is published quarterly by the Washington State Nurses Association, 575 Andover Park West, Suite 101, Seattle, WA98188, 206/575-7979. It is distributed as a benet o membership to all WSNA members. Amember rate o $10 per year is included in WSNAmembership dues. Institutional subscription rateis $20 per year (Canada/Mexico: US $26 per year;Foreign: US $39 per year) or $37.50 or two years.Single copy price is $5.00 each prepaid.The inormation in this newsmagazine is or the beneit o WSNA members. WSNA is amulti-purpose, multi-aceted organization.
The Washington Nurse
 
 provides a orum ormembers o all specialties and interests toexpress their opinions. Opinions expressed are the responsibilities o the authors and do notnecessarily refect the opinions o the ocers ormembership o WSNA, unless so stated. Copyright2005, WSNA. No part o this publication may bereproduced without permission.
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, under PR and
The Washington Nurse,
 
or by contacting the WSNA Business Agent at 206/575-7979. Advertising deadlinesare: March 1, June 1, September 1, and December1. Advertising will be accepted on a rst come,rst served basis or preerred positions, pendingspace availability. WSNA reserves the right toreject advertising. Paid advertisements in The Washington Nurse do not necessarily refect theendorsement o the WSNA Members, Sta orOrganization.
coNtributor guideliNes
—Article ideas andunsolicited manuscripts are welcome rom WSNA members (300 word maximum). Pleasesubmit a typed copy and diskette (Word Perect6.0/Windows 98), and include identied relevant photos, a biographical statement, your name,address and credentials. It is not the policy o  WSNA to pay or articles or artwork.
 article subMissioN deadliNes
 Winter .............................................November 15Spring ................................................February 15Summer .....................................................May 15Fall .......................................................August 15
 January 2007
1 Office Closed - New Year’s Day 
5DeadlineforSubmissionofNon-EmergencyResolutions
15 Office Closed - Martin LutherKing Jr Day 
17Bylaws/ResolutionsCommittee18OccupationalandEnvironmentalHealthandSafetyCommittee26CabinetonEconomicandGeneral Welfare29-31NDNQIMeeting-LasVegas,NV 
February 
2TicketofNomineesforWSNA
Elected Ofces Mailed andPublished in an Ofcial WSNA 
Publication5NurseLegislativeDay 
19 Office Closed - Presidents’ Day 
22OrientationofWSNADelegatestoUANNationalLaborAssembly 24ProfessionalNursingandHealthCareCouncil28DeadlineforSelf-DeclaredCandidatesforWSNAElected
Ofces
March
5WSNABoardofDirectors6WSNFBoardofTrustees20-23UANNationalLaborAssemblymeetings-WashingtonDC
 April
2-4CNEWS-Spokane,WA
May 
2-4BiennialWSNAConvention-Tacoma,WA 
 June
20-22ANAQuadrennialPolicyConference:“NursingCareinLife,DeathandDisaster,”-AtlantaGA 
September
22-25LocalUnitLeadershipConference-Chelan,WA 
May 2008
6WSNACentennialAnniversaryCelebration
Calendar of Eents
 WSNA BOARD OF DIRECTORS& HEADqUARTERS STAFF
presideNt
Kim Armstrong, BSN, RNC, Olalla
 Vice presideNt
Mary Walker, PhD, RN, FAAN, Bellevue
secretary/treasurer
Jean Peier, BSN, Kirkland
directors-at-large
Harriet Colwell, RN, PascoSally Herman, RN, Mount VernonPamela Rimel, RN, YakimaJudith Turner, RN, Fox IslandStasia Warren, MSN, RN, Spokane
chair, professioNal NursiNg& health care couNcil
Joan Caley, RN, MS, CNS, CNAA-BC, Vancouver
chair, legislatiVe &health policy couNci
l
Susan E Jacobson, RN, Yakima
chair, cabiNet oN ecoNoMic& geNeral Welfare
Tim Davis, RN, Mt. Vernon
executiVe director
Judith A. Huntington, MN, RN
director, labor relatioNs
Barbara E. Frye, BSN, RN
director, NursiNg practice & educatioN
 
Joan Garner, MN, RN
educatioN specialist
 
Hilke Faber MN, RN, FAAN
director, goVerNMeNtal affairs, coMMuNicatioNs& MeMbership serVices
 Anne Tan Piazza
coNtract lobbyist
Tamara Warnke
Web & coMMuNicatioNs specialist
Ben Tilden
geNeral/corporate couNsel
Timothy Sears, JD
geNeral couNsel
Linda Machia, JDMichael Sanderson, JD
ecoNoMic aNd geNeralWelfare staff
Debbi Bessmer, BSN, RNKate Boyle, RNJan Bussert, BSN, RNDarlene Delgado, RNCarmen Garrison BSN, RNJuanita Heaton, BSN, RNKathi Landon, RNPat McClure, RNDeborah Neiman, RNHanna Welander, BSN, RN
busiNess ageNt &systeMs adMiNistrator
Deb Weston
INFORMATION & RESOURCES AvAILABLE ONLINE AT
  WWW.WSNA.ORG
 
 You Were Represented
The WSNA sta and elected and appointed leaders represent yourinterests in a wide variety o meetings, coalitions, conerences and work groups throughout the year, anticipating and responding to theissues the membership has identied as priorities. In addition to manymeetings with legislators, policy makers, other health care and nursingorganizations and unions, the ollowing represents a partial listing o  the many places and meetings where you were represented during themonths o mid-October 06 through December 06.
• Public Health Funding Roundtable and Meeting with the Governoron Public Health Funding• WA DOH Public Health Emergency Preparedness Joint AdvisoryCommittee• Seattle-King County Public Health Reserve Corps PlanningCommittee• Meetings with DOH sta on proposed DOH legislation• Working or Health Coalition (access to care issues or children)• Meetings o the Mental Health Parity Coalition• 21st Annual Washington Health Legislative Conerence• WA Department o Labor and Industries Task Force to ExamineLiting in Health Care• Meetings o the Medication Saety Initiative• Washington State Hospital Association Inection Saety AdvisoryCommittee• Washington State Labor Council “Fair Share” work group on access• WSNA and WA Health Foundation Healthiest State o the Nationmedia campaign• Steering Committee o the Foundation or Health Care Quality onPrevention o Medical Errors• Washington Nursing Leadership Coalition(WNLC) meeting• Washington Center or Nursing (WCN) BoardMeetings & Open Forums (Spokane & Yakima)• Meetings o the Washington State Nursing CareQuality Assurance Commission, its Practice andEducation subcommittees and the Committee onContinued Competence• Meeting o the Council o Nurse Educators o  Washington State regarding development i amaster plan or nursing education in WA• Washington Toxics Free Legacy CoalitionSteering Committee and the John H. MerckFoundation• Health Care Without Harm Nurses Work Group• CHE-NW on environmental health issues• ANA Constituent Assembly meeting in Washington DC • SNA Labor Coalition meeting in Chicago• UAN E&GW Program Directors meetings inChicago• UAN Executive Council Meetings
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