Members Celebrate Union’s 44th Anniversary with BCNU Day Quiz

May 29, 2025

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
  1. Leah Chacko - Vancouver Metro
  2. Bonnette Will - Thompson North Okanagan
  3. Manpreet Sidhu - South Fraser Valley
  4. Krista Thiel - Fraser Valley
  5. Yvette Mueller – Richmond Vancouver
  6. Heather Bertram - Simon Fraser
  7. Tracy Musey - Thompson North Okanagan
  8. Cameron Ward- Simon Fraser
  9. Leslie-Ann Auger - West Kootenay
  10. Katherine Morgan - Okanagan Similkameen
  11. Zainab Zelda Diesta - North East
  12. Martin Lapaire - South Islands
  13. Keara Manrique - Shaughnessy Heights
  14. Francis Kopieczek – Richmond Vancouver
  15. Michelle Sauk - South Islands
  16. Sheila Taylor - South Fraser Valley
  17. Sabrina Lefebvre - Okanagan Similkameen
  18. May Sanchez - Simon Fraser
  19. Aaron De La Espriella - Pacific Rim
  20. Barbara Holm - East Kootenay
  21. Shirley Oandasan - Coastal Mountain
  22. Paige Miller - South Fraser Valley
  23. Stacey Cooper - North West
  24. Laura Martin - South Islands
  25. Satinder Gulati - Fraser Valley
  26. Laura Gold - Shaughnessy Heights
  27. Anissa Roadhouse - Okanagan Similkameen
  28. Amanda Gervais - Pacific Rim
  29. Graham Olds - Pacific Rim
  30. Willa Julius - South Islands
  31. Punam Rainsford - South Islands
  32. Melissa Stodola - Simon Fraser
  33. Catherine Turcotte - Okanagan Similkameen
  34. Rupinder Nanra - South Fraser Valley
  35. Canan Duru - Coastal Mountain
  36. Yonica Jeet - South Fraser Valley
  37. Anamika Trehan - Central Vancouver
  38. Pak Kin Chan - Fraser Valley
  39. Fion Hew Tung Lee – Richmond Vancouver
  40. Ethan Smith - Thompson North Okanagan
  41. Harkirat Dhillon - South Fraser Valley
  42. Tanis Harrison - Pacific Rim
  43. Jayson Banching - Central Vancouver
  44. Kalena Ballarin - Central Vancouver
  45. Kevin Wittenberg - Central Vancouver
  46. Heather McAleney - North East
  47. Mathilda Fernandes - Vancouver Metro
  48. Noel Joseph - Simon Fraser
  49. 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. 

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