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NEWS FROM AROUND THE PROVINCE
SAFETY ALERT! NURSING WEEK 2016
OUR NURSES MATTER
IS YOUR LANYARD SAFE?
All BCNU members are urged to immediately check their safety lanyards to ensure that break-away clasps are working properly. Plastic clasps should release immediately when the lanyard is subject to forceful pressure. No member should be using a lanyard without three quick-release clasps. If you are using an old lanyard without a three-point release, please discontinue use immediately and ask your steward for one of BCNU’s new berry-coloured lanyards. If you test your lanyard and it does not release as it should, do not continue to use it. Periodic re-checking of the quick-release clasps is also advised.
COMMUNITY OUTREACH JOIN BCNU AT THE PNE!
BCNU’s big blue bus will be spending a few days at this year’s Pacific National Exhibition, and you’re encouraged to come out and spend some time at the fair with other BCNU member-volunteers. Members will be interacting with the public, checking blood pressure and glucose levels, and talking about health care from August 25 – 28. Volunteers are required to commit to a minimum fourhour time block. You’ll get free admission on the day of your shift, meaning you can enjoy the PNE before or after you volunteer. Email BCNU Vancouver Metro region Lobby Coordinator Brooke Raphael for more information: brookeraphael@bcnu.org NEW VIDEOS BCNU members participated in the creation of a series of new Our Nurses Matter videos that were released during National Nursing Week.
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CNU MARKED NATIONAL NURSING WEEK WITH the release of a series of new videos produced by the unions’ professional practice and advocacy department that feature interviews with a variety of BCNU members from around the province. The union also ran a province-wide, week-long radio campaign with advertising that acknowledged nurses’ daily effort to provide safe patient care at the bedside and in their communities. Nursing Week took place May 9 to 15. The event is celebrated throughout the world honour the nursing profession. You can watch the new Our Nurses Matter videos on BCNU’s YouTube channel. update
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STANDING UP FOR HEALTH CARE Some of the fantastic BCNU member-volunteers who participated in last year’s community outreach effort at the PNE fair.
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