HONOLULU (KHON2) -- After months of negotiations, Kapiolani Medical Center and the Hawaii Nurses' Association have finally reached a tentative deal on a new contract. Get Hawaii's latest morning news delivered to your inbox, sign up for News 2 You Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children released the following statement: We are pleased to reach a tentative agreement with the Hawai‘i Nurses’ Association. This agreement reflects a year of negotiating, listening to our nurses and incorporating their priorities into this contract. As we await the voting results, we look forward to the day our nurses return to the bedside to care for our patients. Gidget Ruscetta, COO of Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children How can Hawaii attract and retain more nurses? The announcement was made more than two weeks after union nurses were locked out of the hospital for participating in a one-day strike. Nurses were fighting for improved working conditions and a better patient-to-nurse ratio to provide adequate care. The tentative agreement also comes just days after a federal mediator joined negotiations to help facilitate discussions. "It's a sigh of relief knowing 600 nurses at Kapiolani can go back to work and do what they do best. But now I have Queen's to worry about. That's 1,800 nurses. We're still negotiating. I have Wilcox about 140 nurses they're still negotiating and you know what time to get back to work," said Rosalee Agas-Yuu, Hawaii Nurses Association. Check out more news from around Hawaii The union will hold its ratification vote on Wednesday. The earliest nurses can return to work is Sunday.