Blogging Guidelines

SEIU Healthcare 1199NW’s blogging guidelines have been developed for SEIU Healthcare 1199NW members who post comments on this blog.

Best Practices
We want to hear from you! The DSHS/DOH blog is intended to inform and educate SEIU Healthcare 1199NW members about bargaining updates. Participants are invited to read updates, post questions and provide feedback for bargaining team members.

• Be respectful: Be thoughtful and accurate in your posts, and be respectful of how other DSHS and DOH nurses will interpret posts and comments. Keep in mind that all posts and comments can be publicly viewed by anyone, inside and outside our union and state government.
• Be courteous.
• Tell your own story: write what you know.

And, don’t forget:
• Speak for yourself. Others will care about what you write. As with any blog, you are legally responsible for commentary you post. Individual bloggers can be held personally liable for defamatory, obscene, proprietary, or libelous content. Exercise caution with exaggeration, colorful language, guess work, obscenity, copyrighted materials, legal conclusions, and derogatory remarks. Don’t assume you’re posting anonymously.
• Protect patient confidentiality. Don’t disclose personal patient health information, including identifying characteristics or details that violate HIPPA. And, don’t blog about confidential DSHS/DOH information.
• Take it home. State employees may browse websites on work computers, subject to state government de minimus use policies. These are described both in our contract (Article 4.3) and in state policy. If you want to blog or do anything on this website that exceeds de minimis use, then do it from your home computer. Use your personal email account at home, and not your work email for blog-related purposes.
• Play nice. SEIU Healthcare 1199NW Bargaining Team members will remove any posting or comment that contains obscene language, personal attacks, or content that is off-topic.