KING COUNTY NURSES ASSOCIATION
King County Nurses Association distributes The Buzz several times a year to nursing students throughout the county with the help of our school liaisons.
FEATURED EVENT:
Nurse MentorLink Session: If I Only Knew Then What I Know Now
Thursday, January 16, 2025 - 6 PM - 8 PM
Registration Deadline: January 14, 2025
Cost: Free for nursing students, KCNA members/scholarship recipients
Location: Zoom
Description:While nursing is a rewarding and honored profession, it can also be challenging and stressful, especially when you first begin. There is so much to learn, and you may not feel like you can ask questions at school or in the workplace. That’s where KCNA’s MentorLink comes in! Our most experienced nurse mentors will be reviewing how they started their nurse journey, where it took them, and how, with 20/20 vision, they can look back and share the things they wished they would have known at that time.
Q&A session will follow the presentation.
Click here to register for MentorLink Session.
FEATURED EVENT:
KCNA 2025-26 Scholarship Information Session
Thursday, January 9, 2025 - 6 PM - 7 PM
Click
here to register for the KCNA 2025-26 Scholarship Information Session.
Fall Summit: Health Equity & the Nurse Role
Saturday, November 16, 2024 - 9:30 AM-1:30 PM
Registration Deadline:November 8, 2024, or until filled. Limited capacity.
Cost: $15 students
**Boxed lunch included with ticket price.
Location: Phinney Center, Seattle, Brick Building, Community Hall
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. Event to be facilitated by Fawzi Belal, MS, Nursing, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Associate at the Washington Center for Nursing.
Nurses in Action:Following the presentation, we will assemble 400 cold/flu kits for Real Change newspaper vendors.
**2-hour Certificate of Completion after event evaluation submitted.
**KCNA member and nonmember pricing can be found on event registration site.
Click
here to register for the KCNA Fall Summit.
Nurses Book Club:The Black Angels
Saturday, December 7, 2024 - 9 AM-11 AM
Click here to register for The Black Angels book club.
Nurses Education Series: Sleep Across the Lifespan
Helping patients in their sleep journey - RECORDING
This is a recording of a live event that took place in January 2024. In this video you will learn about sleep at different life stages and it's influences on specific conditions. Hear from an incredible speakers' panel of five UW researches and come away with information and tools to help patients along their sleep journey.
Cost: $20 nursing students
**2 ANCC contact hours
**This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved by Oregon Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Approval valid through 1/27/2026 (live activity) or 1/4/2027 (enduring activity). OCEAN ID #2023-46.
Attendees may earn 2 contact hours. Participants must be present for all the educational activity and complete the workshop evaluation to receive contact hours.
To learn more or to register for this event, click HERE.
Scholarship Application Update
King County Nurses Association is pleased to announce that 15 scholarships will be awarded at $4,500 per student for the 2025-2026 school year.
The application for 2025 will be available in early January 2025.
Other Local Scholarships
The Washington State Nurses Foundation
WSNF awards scholarships annually to qualified students who meet the eligibility requirements and are selected. Scholarships begin with a minimum award of $1,000. For more information, click here.
In addition to scholarship funds drawn from the WSNF general fund, students who qualify may be selected to receive funds from the Deo Little Scholarship Fund and the Judy Huntington Scholarship Fund.
Mary Mahoney Professional Nurses Association
For students of African Heritage, the Mary Mahoney Professional Nurses Association offers scholarships to qualified students enrolled in a school of nursing in Washington State, leading to an RN degree or higher.
Rucking for Fitness: What is it?
If you’ve ever gone on a walk with a heavy backpack on, you’re ahead of the curve on a new fitness trend, called rucking. In this article featured in "Right as Rain", a digital publication of UW Medicine, the author explains what rucking is, how to get started and the benefits it can provide.
Click HERE to read this article.
Nursing Students of Washington State
Looking for more comradery and a way to connect with other nursing students? The Nursing Students of Washington State is the only statewide nursing association for students in the state. They are a chapter of the National Student Nurses Association and an independent organization supported in part by the Washington State Nurses Association.
Their mission is to develop a collaborative and cooperative structure between nursing schools within the state to create consistent high standards that support nursing students through education, scholarship, legislation and networking.
Membership is open to everyone enrolled in an accredited Washington State nursing school at all levels, nursing school faculty and pre-nursing students.
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The Seattle Center Foundation has announced that the 10th Anniversary of the Seattle/King County Clinic will be held from April 24-27, 2025, at Seattle Center.
Seattle/King County Clinic brings together healthcare organizations, civic agencies, non-profits, businesses, and volunteers from across the State of Washington to produce a giant free health clinic at Seattle Center. Over the past nine years, 30,000 patients have saved $26 million in out-of-pocket costs for dental, vision, and medical care, and have been connected to resources that can help with their continued care.
Sign up for the April 2025 clinic and related events will begin Monday, January 6, 2025.
For more information, check out Seattle/King County Clinic's volunteer page.
