Members Celebrate Union’s 44th Anniversary with BCNU Day Quiz
Questions test members’ knowledge of stewards and minimum nurse-to-patient ratios
The BC Nurses’ Union was founded on June 11, 1981, when two hundred nurses held the organization’s first convention at the Empress Hotel in Victoria. Since that day, the union’s anniversary, BCNU Day, is marked on June 11.
The celebration returns this year with the annual BCNU Day quiz. Members are encouraged to participate and test their knowledge of stewards – ahead of the June 17-19 steward elections – and of minimum nurse-to-patient ratios as the union works to ensure ratios are implemented in hospital-based care settings.
Randomly drawn entries from BCNU’s 16 regions win a full set of Canadian-made and locally sourced scrubs.
June 19, 2025 Update
The BCNU Day quiz was available from June 1-11, 2025, and over 400 submissions were received. Congratulations to all who won!
Here is a full list of winners and their regions
- Leah Chacko - Vancouver Metro
- Bonnette Will - Thompson North Okanagan
- Manpreet Sidhu - South Fraser Valley
- Krista Thiel - Fraser Valley
- Yvette Mueller – Richmond Vancouver
- Heather Bertram - Simon Fraser
- Tracy Musey - Thompson North Okanagan
- Cameron Ward- Simon Fraser
- Leslie-Ann Auger - West Kootenay
- Katherine Morgan - Okanagan Similkameen
- Zainab Zelda Diesta - North East
- Martin Lapaire - South Islands
- Keara Manrique - Shaughnessy Heights
- Francis Kopieczek – Richmond Vancouver
- Michelle Sauk - South Islands
- Sheila Taylor - South Fraser Valley
- Sabrina Lefebvre - Okanagan Similkameen
- May Sanchez - Simon Fraser
- Aaron De La Espriella - Pacific Rim
- Barbara Holm - East Kootenay
- Shirley Oandasan - Coastal Mountain
- Paige Miller - South Fraser Valley
- Stacey Cooper - North West
- Laura Martin - South Islands
- Satinder Gulati - Fraser Valley
- Laura Gold - Shaughnessy Heights
- Anissa Roadhouse - Okanagan Similkameen
- Amanda Gervais - Pacific Rim
- Graham Olds - Pacific Rim
- Willa Julius - South Islands
- Punam Rainsford - South Islands
- Melissa Stodola - Simon Fraser
- Catherine Turcotte - Okanagan Similkameen
- Rupinder Nanra - South Fraser Valley
- Canan Duru - Coastal Mountain
- Yonica Jeet - South Fraser Valley
- Anamika Trehan - Central Vancouver
- Pak Kin Chan - Fraser Valley
- Fion Hew Tung Lee – Richmond Vancouver
- Ethan Smith - Thompson North Okanagan
- Harkirat Dhillon - South Fraser Valley
- Tanis Harrison - Pacific Rim
- Jayson Banching - Central Vancouver
- Kalena Ballarin - Central Vancouver
- Kevin Wittenberg - Central Vancouver
- Heather McAleney - North East
- Mathilda Fernandes - Vancouver Metro
- Noel Joseph - Simon Fraser
- Wai Han Chan - Vancouver Metro
Correction: Quiz question 8 asked members to correctly identify a list of three courses that are available to BCNU stewards. The quiz incorrectly indicated that "(C) Steward Financial Planning and Budgeting; Steward intermediate; Steward Advanced" was the correct answer. The correct answer is in fact "(A) Steward Intermediate; Crucial Conversations; Steward Advanced."
We apologize for any confusion.