LAST CHANCE: Fall Book Club: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store | |
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Date: Saturday, October 19, 2024, 9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Location: Zoom
Only Option: Bring Your Own Book: $10 KCNA members, $30 nonmembers, $10 students
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride is described as a groundbreaking book on race, religion, social justice and history. The book is inspired by the author’s grandmother, a Jewish immigrant from Poland who ran a grocery store in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, during the 1930s and 40s. The book explores the lives of the residents of Chicken Hill, where African Americans and Jewish immigrants coexisted as a community.
Event to be facilitated by Cheryl Cooke, Phd, DNP, PMHNP-BC.
**2-hour Certificate of Completion after event evaluation submitted
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Click here to register for The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book club. | |
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Registration Deadline: November 8, 2024, or until filled. Limited capacity.
Cost: $25 KCNA members, $45 nonmembers, $15 students
**Boxed lunch included with ticket price.
Location: Phinney Center, 6532 Phinney Ave. N, Seattle, WA 98103
Description: Come learn about health equity and implicit bias and how it applies to your role as a nurse. This workshop will give you the tools and strategies to increase your health equity IQ, which along with self-reflection, can help reduce your bias during patient assessment.
Nurses in Action: Following the presentation, we will assemble 400 cold/flu kits for Real Change newspaper vendors.
Event to be facilitated by Fawzi Belal, MS, Nursing, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Associate at the Washington Center for Nursing.
**2-hour Certificate of Completion after event evaluation submitted. Completion fulfills the WABON requirement of 2-hours of continuing education in health equity.
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Winter Book Club: The Black Angels | |
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Date: Saturday, December 7, 2024, 9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Location: Zoom
Cost: $20 KCNA members, $40 nonmembers,
$15 students
Bring Your Own Book: $10 KCNA members,
$30 nonmembers, $10 students
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses who helped cure Tuberculoisis by Maria Smilios is a remarkable story of sruvival and sacrifice. The book is set in New York's largest municipal hospital in 1929, a time when tuberculosis killed one in seven people. As white nurses quit in droves, officials sent out the call to Black Southern nurses, luring them with false promises. Confronting racism and consigned to a woefully understaffed facility, these young Black women risked their lives to serve the poor when no one else would.
Event to be facilitated by Cheryl Cooke, Phd, DNP, PMHNP-BC.
**2-hour Certificate of Completion after event evaluation submitted
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KCNA members attend WABON Vision & Voice conference | |
Great conversations were had at the WABON 2024 Vision and Voice Conference held earlier in October! Among those in attendance were KCNA Board President Chris Henshaw, Board Member at Large Alison Bradywood and Executive Director Jennifer Bravo. The conference fostered engaging discussions and provided valuable insights into the future of nursing. | |
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Are you attending an upcoming nursing conference, seminar or volunteering for an event? Have you been featured in an article or the recent recipient of an award? We’d love to hear from you! We’re looking to highlight our members and share their experiences to inspire other nurses who are eager to get involved.
Share your photos and experiences with us at kcnurses@kcnurses.org.
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Looking for CNE contact hours? WSNA offers professional development to help you stay current and enhance your professional competency. Find on-demand courses on topics ranging from leglistation 101, workplace violence prevention, telehealth assessment for providers and more.
Click here for more continuing education opportunities offered through WSNA.
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Continuing education with WCN: So You Want to be a Professor | |
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The Washington Center for Nursing is committed to creating a strong and diverse nurse faculty workforce. So You Want to be a Professor is a FREE half-day Zoom workshop that introduces participants to nursing education as a career and the different and surprising paths nurse educators can take.
Who should register? Practicing nurses and nursing students interested in pursuing the nurse educator path can register. To support greater diversity among Washington’s nursing faculty, WCN also strongly encourages diverse practicing nurses and nursing students interested in pursuing the nurse educator path to register.
Earn 4 CNE hours and hear from KCNA Board Member Antwinett O. Lee, EdD, MSN-CNS, BSRN, RN who will be presenting.
To resgister click here.
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UW School of Nursing, Voices of Nurses podcast | |
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The Voices of Nursing podcast by UW School of Nursing, highlights the insights of exceptional nurse leaders, researchers and scholars. Listen as they share their stories, challenges, successes and the significant difference they make in the lives of patients, families and communities.
Tune in to Episode 1, Becoming a Nurse Researcher and Advocate hosted by KCNA member Monica McLemore, PHD, MPH, RN.
Download the Voices of Nursing podcast on Spotify.
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LIMITED TICKETS: Nurse Unseen movie screening with Q&A | |
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Nurse Unseen, a documentary by Michele Josue, explores the little-known history and humanity of the unsung Filipino nurses who risked their lives on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic while facing a resurgence of anti-Asian hate in the streets.
Grand Illusion Cinema in Seattle will be hosting two screenings with Q&A. Both offerings are sold out, but limited tickets may be available at the door. Please contact Grand Illusion Cinema before attending. KCNA will be monitoring and sharing additional screening options.
- Sunday, Oct 20, 2024, 12:30pm
- Monday, Oct 21, 2024, 7:00pm
To view the trailer, click here.
“A heartfelt and illuminating documentary.” -Cleveland International Film Festival
“Nurse Unseen is a love letter honoring the history and humanity of Filipino nurses who have been the backbone of the American caretaking system.
-CAAMFest
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Support those in need this holiday season | |
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Seattle Union Gospel needs your support to help hungry neighbors this Thanksgiving season! Volunteering with Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission goes beyond a typical service project. Whether you're serving meals, mentoring guests, or sorting donations, your involvement makes a real difference in the lives of the men, women and children we serve.
Can't donate time? With just $2.80, you can provide a meal and vital care for a homeless individual this holiday season.
Find out more by visiting Seattle Union Gospel Mission or email their Volunteer Experience Team here.
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