Sometimes walking is the last option to improve patient care
St. Joseph’s-Tacoma nurses and others consider their options in light of administrative inaction.
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Cutting corners on RN benefits and working conditions proves costly for St. Joseph Medical Center-Tacoma
Nurse turnover at SJMC is, for lack of a better word, obscene, and incredibly costly.According to WSNA membership data, SJMC turned over 276 nurses in 2017, and 248 in 2018. This comes out to a turnover rate of 24.2% and 20.9% each year, respectively – rates much higher than national averages.
Member post: SJMC nurses demand better
Why nurses demand and deserve better than what St. Joseph Medical Center-Tacoma has offered.
When you’re there in body, but not in mind
Presenteeism is when someone is physically at work, but not fully engaged or performing. As nurses, we have a lot going on both at work and outside of work, and these things (like our work environment and our own health and well-being) can affect our ability to be fully present at work.
Election results
You voted and the results are in. Here are the people who will serve in elected positions during WSNA's 2019-2021 biennium.
Research exploring nursing delegation
Nurse delegation, unlike general delegation, is a specific process within nursing under the Washington Administrative Codes. It is focused on assigning care tasks to be performed by long-term care workers within certain settings, under the management of a registered nurse, called a nurse delegator.
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- For ANCC certification, contact American Nurses Credentialing Center
- For licensing information, contact the Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission
- Foreign nurses moving to Washington State, contact The Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools
- For online continuing education, check out options from ANA and WSNA.
- For liability insurance, WSNA endorses Nurses Service Organization (NSO).
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Resources
- WSNA members and employees enjoy discounted tuition from WGU.
- HEAL-WA: providing evidence-based information to support patient care.