“It’s important to WSNA that workers aren’t discouraged from exercising their protected rights because of unlawful threats or intimidation.”

We express deep concerns regarding nominations that have recently been announced by the incoming administration, and we share the need to take a clear stand at this moment to clarify our profession’s priorities.

The nurses voted overwhelmingly in favor of the contract in a historic turnout.

What binds us as Americans is far more important than what divides us.

Community invited to share frustration at Nov. 14 event (6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.)

Staffing levels keep falling and workplace violence and security need drastic improvement

Providence VNA Home Health nurses collected more than a thousand signatures from the community

Providence wants the community to believe that closure of their adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit will not negatively impact the community and patients they once served. This is simply not true.

Providence is closing inpatient psychiatric unit for adolescents Sept. 7. Providence’s closure of the unit leaves Eastern Washington with little care and didn’t need to happen, nurses and techs/service and maintenance workers say.

Rustan is a second-year doctoral candidate in the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner program at the University of Washington and president of the Mary Mahoney Professional Nurses Organization