Our vision — We believe that all Washington residents will achieve optimal health when we work to ensure that all communities have access to safe, quality health care, public health, and environmental justice.
WSNA’s strategic priorities and objectives focus the association’s resources on priority goals that advance our mission of providing leadership for the nursing profession and promoting quality health care.
Champion Safe Staffing
Advance safe nurse staffing standards by advocating for nurse-to-patient ratio legislation, enforcing accountability under the 2023 Hospital Staffing Law, and strengthening contract language.
Address workplace violence and moral injury associated with chronic understaffing through advocacy, prevention, and employer accountability.
Strengthen Political Presence and Impact
Grow nurses’ political power by involving members in non-partisan election engagement and advocacy on issues that impact the nursing profession such as safe staffing, universal access to care, and protections against corporatization while increasing PAC resources and nurses in public office.
Increase Organizational Vitality & Growth
Foster a culture of transparency and stewardship while optimizing the use of human and financial resources.
Focus on continued membership expansion through organizing, recruitment, and retention while developing leaders with a focus on historically underrepresented groups.
Increase Collaboration with Labor, Nursing, and Health Care Professional Organizations
Strengthen professional partnerships with the labor movement, nursing, and health care professional organizations through strong, practical coalitions to win concrete gains in staffing standards, all person safety, working conditions, and access to care.
Advance a Culture of Inclusivity
Embed principles of equity, antiracism, and inclusion across the association by expanding pathways for diverse leaders, protecting nurses against any form of discrimination, and advocating for diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice within health care.
Advance the Responsible Integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Nursing
Advance the responsible integration of technology, including artificial intelligence in nursing, by promoting nurse leadership in AI governance, and ensuring AI complements, not replaces, the expertise, critical thinking, and professional judgment of registered nurses.
Promote practical guardrails to protect patients and nursing practice from harm related to the use of technology, including AI. Advocate for technology that is ethical, transparent, accountable, and centered on patient safety, care quality, and equitable care.