Resources and guidance for nursing practice, patient safety, and workplace conditions.
Find your contract, bargaining updates, representation rights, local unit information, and workplace support.
Continuing nursing education, professional development, and events to support your practice and professional growth.
Follow legislative updates, take action, and help make nurses’ voices heard in Olympia.
Manage your membership, explore your benefits, and connect with your regional nurses association.
See how WSNA is led, what we are working toward, and how to connect with us.
Suggested
The Senate Ways and Means Committee did not pass our safe staffing bill out of committee by the deadline, meaning HB 1868 is very unlikely to pass this legislative cycle. We are deeply disappointed, but this is a delay, not defeat.
March 4, 2022 • 2 minutes to read
Both legislative budgets were released this week on Monday. We were excited to see funding for WSNA priorities, including school nurse funding, sexual assault nurse examiner training and workforce development. The Legislature also reached the second policy cutoff of the year on Thursday.
February 25, 2022 • 5 minutes to read
On Monday, the Legislature reached the house of origin cutoff. Most of our priority bills made is past this crucial deadline. Because most of our bills started in the House, we will now be working on moving those bills through the Senate.
February 18, 2022 • 6 minutes to read
The Office of the Governor is recruiting to fill vacancies on Washington state's Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission.
February 18, 2022 • 1 minute to read
On Monday, the Legislature reached fiscal cut off for the house of origin. The rest of the week was spent on the Legislature caucusing and voting bills off the House and Senate floors. We are expecting the safe staffing bill to be voted on by the house any day now.
February 11, 2022 • 3 minutes to read
Listen to David discuss his path to WSNA and current issues in nursing like safe staffing in this hourlong conversation.
February 11, 2022 • 1 minute to read
A review of recent national and Washington State nurse staffing data and survey results indicates that there are enough nurses to safely staff hospitals, but that the quality of jobs is leading many qualified registered nurses to leave their Washington hospital jobs.
February 10, 2022 • 3 minutes to read
The LegisÂlaÂture reached major milestone this week. Thursday was the cutoff for policy bills in their house of origin. This means that no new bills will be introÂduced this session unless they are necesÂsary to impleÂment the budget.
February 4, 2022 • 5 minutes to read
Washington State Nursing Commission determines that graduates of five Florida schools do not meet minimum requirements for licensure in the state of Washington.
January 31, 2022 • 1 minute to read
This week the House Labor Committee took executive action on the safe staffing bill, HB 1868. The Senate Labor Committee heard testimony from two WSNA nurses on a bill that would provide COVID-19 hazard pay to hospital-based health care workers. The first cutoff of session is next week on Feb. 3.
January 28, 2022 • 4 minutes to read
This week the House Labor Committee heard the safe staffing bill, HB 1868. Check out the WSNA members who testified in support of the bill.
January 21, 2022 • 3 minutes to read
WSNA nurses share firsthand accounts of understaffing from the front lines.
January 17, 2022 • 10 minutes to read
The public is becoming increasingly aware of a problem nurses have known about for a long time: the nurse staffing crisis that is dangerously depleting our hospitals. The COVID-19 pandemic has both highlighted and accentuated this crisis.
January 17, 2022 • 8 minutes to read
WSNA and the other two primary health care unions in Washington state call for a sustainÂable, accountÂable commitÂment to safe staffing in every departÂment of every hospital in the state.
January 17, 2022 • 3 minutes to read
Mary Mahoney Professional Nurses Organization was established in 1949 to provide community services and education to student nurses.
This was a busy week of hearings on policy bills and WSNA was well repreÂsented with several members providing testiÂmony on key bills. As a reminder, all hearings and meetings with legisÂlaÂtors are taking place over Zoom and are being aired on TVW.
January 14, 2022 • 4 minutes to read
We call on employers to clarify their policies, and we call on the state to ensure workers cannot be forced to return while sick, or disciplined for refusing to work while symptomatic with COVID.
January 14, 2022 • 2 minutes to read
"We do not believe that NINR intended to exclude research on health care equity; the health equity lens appears to be defined broadly enough to include health care equity. However, because some definitions distinguish between health equity and health care equity, this should be clarified."
December 17, 2021 • 1 minute to read
Today a coalition of healthcare workers launched the WA Safe + Healthy campaign calling on Washington legislators to pass safe staffing standards that protect healthcare workers from dangerously high patient loads.
December 13, 2021 • 3 minutes to read
On Dec. 13, join the launch of our statewide campaign to ensure that we can care for patients safely, retain qualified staff, recruit new people into our industry, and create sustainable and resilient healthcare systems for our communities.
December 8, 2021 • 1 minute to read
Hundreds of nurses, patients and community leaders gathered outside St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma on Nov. 3 to demand the hospital improve conditions so nurses can provide safe, high-quality care to every patient.
November 3, 2021 • 3 minutes to read
Nurses and other frontline workers are calling on hospitals to use the tools and resources they have available to finally begin mitigating this crisis for workers and patients.
October 19, 2021 • 4 minutes to read
WSNA nurses from all over Washington state are participating in the VaccinateWA campaign. Listen to their stories in these powerful videos encouraging the public to get vaccinated.
October 8, 2021 • 2 minutes to read
In September, the Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission put out a statement on COVID-19 misinformation. WSNA sent a letter to the Commission expressing concerns with the statement.
October 6, 2021 • 1 minute to read
Page 12 of 30
