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 Volume 37, No. 2
Summer 2007
2 Calendar of Eens3 You Were Represened4 In Focus6 Healh Care Reform8 Legislaie Updae9 Conenion Highlighs10 Nursing Pracice Updae11 WSNA Elecion Resuls13 WSNA Honorary Recogniion Awards13 E&GW Updae14 WCN News14 CEARP Updae15 Immuniaion Updae15 Enironmenal HealhUpdae17 Baby “Green” Seps17 WA Sae PBDE Ban19 Nursing Sudens of Washingon Sae24 Coninuing EducaionCalendar25 Membership Updae26 New Members28 News Briefs29 WSNA Receies “Pario Award”29 Disric News30 ANA News30 Specialy NursingOrganiaion News
Inside...
News from the WA Center for Nursing • Election Results • News Briefs
Michael Moore’s Film“SiCKO”
Page 6
Nursing’s Agenda for Health Care Reform
Page 7
 Washington State Bans PBDEs
Page 17
“Green” Baby Steps at Work 
Page 17
 
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The Washington Nurse
Issue 37, No. 2
 Vm 37, N. 2
Summer 2007 
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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—Inormation on advertisingrates may be obtained on the WSNA website
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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
Calendar of Eens
Sepember 2007
3OfceClosedforLaborDayHoliday 6WashingtonNursingLeadershipCouncil(WNLC)Meeting9-13UANNationalLaborLeaderInstitute-Seattle,WA 11JoanGarner’sRetirementPartyatSalty’sonAlki-Seattle,WA 17WSNALegislativeandHealthPolicyCouncil-Seattle,WA 22-23CabinetonEconomic&GeneralWelfareMeetings-Chelan,WA 23LocalUnitCouncilMeeting-Chelan,
 WA 
23-25LocalUnitLeadershipConference-Chelan,WA 2656thAnnualGovernor’sIndustrialSafetyandHealthConference-Tacoma,WA 
Ocober
2WashingtonCenterforNursingForum- Vancouver,WA 4ANA:NurseCompetenceinAging:CaringforOlderAdults-Coeurd’Alene,ID6WSNASafeStafngRegionalWorkshop-Spokane,WA 8-12WashStatePublicHealthAssociationJointConferenceonHealth-Yakima,
 WA 
8WSNASafeStafngRegionalWorkshop-Bellingham,WA 9WSNASafeStafngRegionalWorkshop-Olympia,WA 10WSNASafeStafngRegionalWorkshop-Vancouver,WA 11-12CouncilofNursingEducationin WashingtonState(CNEWS)-Seattle,WA 13NursingStudentsofWashingtonState(NSWS)19WSNAFinanceandExecutiveCommitteeMeetings-Seattle,WA 22WSNASafeStafngRegionalWorkshop-Mt.Vernon,WA 23WSNASafeStafngRegionalWorkshop-Tacoma,WA 24WSNASafeStafngRegionalWorkshop-Richland,WA 25WSNASafeStafngRegionalWorkshop-Yakima,WA 27WSNASafeStafngRegionalWorkshop-Seattle,WA 
February 2008
4WSNANurseLegislativeDay-Olympia,
 WA 
May 
6WSNACentennialAnniversaryCelebrationandGala-Seattle,WA 
 WSNA BOARD OF DIRECtORS& HEADqUARtERS StAFF
INFORMAtION & RESOURCES AvAILABLE ONLINE At WWW.WSNA.ORG
presideNt
Kim Armstrong, BSN, RNC, Olalla
 Vice presideNt
Tim Davis, BSN, RN, Mt. Vernon
secretary/treasurer
Stasia Warren, MSN, RN, Spokane
directors-at-large
Ed Dolle, RN, Port OrchardPam Pasquale, MN, RN, SeattleJean Peier, BSN, RN, Kirkland Vee Sutherlin, MEd, BSN, RN, Nine Mile FallsJudith Turner, RN, Fox Island
chair, professioNal NursiNg& health care couNcil
Sharon Bradley, MSN, RN, Spokane
chair, legislatiVe &health policy couNcil
 
Susan E Jacobson, RN, Yakima
chair, cabiNet oN ecoNoMic& geNeral Welfare
Jeanne Avey, RN, Longview
executiVe director
Judith A. Huntington, MN, RN
director, NursiNg practice & educatioN
 
Joan Garner, MN, RN
educatioN specialist
 
Hilke Faber MN, RN, FAAN
director, goVerNMeNtal affairs,coMMuNicatioNs & MeMbership
 Anne Tan Piazza
coNtract lobbyist
Tamara Warnke
Web & coMMuNicatioNs specialist
Ben Tilden
director, labor relatioNs
Barbara E. Frye, BSN, RN
 assistaNt director, labor relatioNs
Darlene Delgado, RN
geNeral/corporate couNsel
Timothy Sears, JD
geNeral couNsel
Linda Machia, JDMichael Sanderson, JD
ecoNoMic aNd geNeral Welfare staff
Debbi Bessmer, BSN, RNKate Boyle, RNJan Bussert, BSN, RNMargaret Conley, ARNP, RNCarmen Garrison BSN, RNChristine Himmelsbach, MN, RNKathi Landon, RNPat McClure, RNDeborah Neiman, RNRosie Tillotson, MSN, RNHanna Welander, BSN, RN
busiNess ageNt & systeMs adMiNistrator
Deb Weston
 
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Issue 37, No. 2
The Washington Nurse
 You Were Represened
The WSNA sta as well as elected and appointed leaders represent your interests 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 themany places and meetings where you were represented during the monthso April 2007 through July 2007.
•PublicHealthFundingRoundtable•WADOHPublicHealthEmergencyPreparednessJointAdvisory
Committee
•MeetingswithDOHstaffonproposedchangestotheUniform
Disciplinary Act Regulations
•LegislativehearingsinOlympiaonpendinglegislation,including:
mandatory overtime, the Patient Saety Act, proposed changes to theuniorm disciplinary act, unding or nursing education and acultysalaries, unding or Public Health, and the PBDE environmentalhealth legislation
•
Working or Health Coalition
(access to care issues or children)
•PrimaryCareCoalition•FareShareHealthCoalition•OlympianHealthCareForumwithSenatorsCantwellandMurray.•PressconferenceswithSenatorCantwellonSCHIPfunding•WSNAscreeningofSiCKOanddiscussionof
Nursing’s Agenda or Health Care Reorm
•HealthCarePersonnelShortageTaskForce•WADepartmentofLaborandIndustries
Task Force to Examine Liting in HealthCare
•MeetingsoftheMedicationSafetyInitiative•WashingtonStateHospitalAssociation
Inection Saety Advisory Committee
•WashingtonStateLaborCouncil“Fair
Share” work group on access
•WSNA,WSMAandWAHealthFoundation
 joint statewide media campaign orChildhood Immunizations and Public HealthFunding
•WashingtonHealthFoundationBoardof
Directors meeting
•SteeringCommitteeoftheFoundation
or Health Care Quality on Prevention o Medical Errors
•WashingtonNursingLeadershipCouncil
(WNLC) meeting
•WashingtonCenterforNursing(WCN)
Board Meetings
•MeetingsoftheWashingtonStateNursing
Care Quality Assurance Commission, itsPractice and Education subcommittees and the Committee on Continued Competence
•CouncilofNursingEducationinWashington
State semi-annual meeting
•MaryMahoneyProfessionalNursesAssociationannualscholarship
 luncheon
•NorthwestNursingStudentCareerDays•WAStateOccupationalandEnvironmentalHealthNursesAnnual
Meeting
•WCN-CNEWSInvitationalSummit:DevelopingaMasterPlanfor
Nursing Education in WA State
•FoundingmeetingsofthenewNursingStudentsofWashington
State (NSWS)
•WashingtonToxicsFreeLegacyCoalitionSteeringCommittee•HealthCareWithoutHarmNursesWorkGroup•CHE-NWonenvironmentalhealthissues•ANAnationalpolicyconferenceonNursingCareinLifeDeathand
Disaster
•MeetingofANA,WSNAandNYSNAwithkeystaffoftheJoint
Commission in Chicago to discuss development o Nurse StangStandards
•WashingtonStateLaborCouncilHealthCarePolicyMeeting•LaunchoftheSEIUNationalHealthCareDivision•UANE&GWProgramDirectorsmeetings•UANLaborCabinetmeetings•UANExecutiveCouncilMeetings
 
I
promise
to care for the sick with all the skill andunderstanding I possess.
~ based on the “Original Florence Nightingale Pledge”
At Swedish Medical Center, our drive to deliver the best care possible goes beyond a commitment we make to our patients. It’s apromise we make to ourselves. To surpass expectation, anticipate need, and treat the whole person. Our commitment, dedication,and trust in one another give us a powerful foundation, enabling us to feel supported and to make the right decisions.Due to our continued growth, we have opportunities for experienced Nurses in a variety of departments and disciplines:As a Nurse at Swedish, the work you do will protect and save lives in and beyond our Seattle community. Join a team that is committed to excellence.
www.swedish.org/jobs
We stand by our pledge to offer equal employment opportunities to everyone.
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