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Margarita López Prentice, former state legislator, longtime WSNA member and inductee in the Washington State Nurses Hall of Fame, passed away quietly in her sleep of natural causes at her home in Bryn Mawr-Skyway, Washington on April 2, 2019. She was 88 years old.
April 16, 2019 • 3 minutes to read
It’s a situation most nurses can relate to. You’re standing up for your patients, your license, your job – and you’re overruled by a physician. An administrator. A pharmacist. What do you do?
April 12, 2019 • 5 minutes to read
On Tuesday, the Senate released its budget.
April 5, 2019 • 3 minutes to read
As part of the Nursing Now three-year global campaign to improve health by raising the profile and status of nursing worldwide, Nursing Now USA will be launched on April 9, 2019 at the National Press Club with live streaming of the event.
April 2, 2019 • 1 minute to read
The week started off with a flurry of activity as the House of Representatives released its biennial budget on Monday.
March 29, 2019 • 3 minutes to read
Our bills continue to move through the legislative process – and this week one of those bills was highlighted on TVW’s Legislative Review.
March 22, 2019 • 3 minutes to read
It would seem self-evident that nursing professors are important, especially in the day and age of looming nursing shortages. Yet, in our state, nearly every community and technical college with a nursing program has faculty vacancies.
March 22, 2019 • 2 minutes to read
We are officially halfway through the 2019 legislative session!
March 16, 2019 • 3 minutes to read
Active in professional nursing activities and associations throughout her career, Betty served on the Washington State Board of Nursing, the Board of Directors of the Washington State Nurses Association, and the Inland Empire Nurses Association. In 1996, Betty was inducted into the Washington State Nurses Hall of Fame.
March 14, 2019 • 3 minutes to read
Building on the work of the landmark report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, an ad hoc committee will extend the vision for the nursing profession into 2030. Attend March 20, 2019 Public Session for the Committee on the Future of Nursing 2020-2030 in person or online.
March 14, 2019 • 1 minute to read
It is irrefutable that when nurses do not get their breaks, patient care suffers. If you think nurses receiving the rest breaks they are entitled to is important to patient care, please: take action and send a note to your senator.
WSNA recognizes the need to provide nursing care across state lines; however, we have a number of concerns about the Nurse Licensure Compact as currently written.
March 6, 2019 • 1 minute to read
On Thursday, nurses from around the state converged in Olympia for WSNA Lobby Day.
March 1, 2019 • 3 minutes to read
Today is the first cutoff of the legislative session – meaning all policy bills must be voted out of the policy committee in their house of origin to keep moving through the process.
February 22, 2019 • 4 minutes to read
Bloodworks NW is a non-profit, regional blood-donation and research organization that utilizes trained nurses to help with post-donation reactions at high schools and colleges.
February 20, 2019 • 2 minutes to read
The UW School of Nursing is working with the state of Washington and other community partners to launch the Nursing Now Initiative here in Washington. The school is also a co-lead in launching Nursing Now in the United States.
February 19, 2019 • 1 minute to read
For the first time anyone can remember, all committee hearings were canceled on Monday due to snow.
February 15, 2019 • 3 minutes to read
Despite the snow earlier this week, things were busy in Olympia! Our government relations team has been busy meeting with legislators and testifying on various bills being heard in committee.
February 8, 2019 • 4 minutes to read
On Thursday, the Senate Labor Committee voted our Rest Breaks bill, SB 5190, out of committee.
February 1, 2019 • 2 minutes to read
The second week of the legislative session got off to a fast start! On Monday, both the House and Senate Labor Committees held hearings on our Rest Break bills, SB 5190 (Senate) and HB 1155 (House).
January 25, 2019 • 3 minutes to read
The 2019 Legislative session officially began Monday with the swearing in of new legislators. Notably, this biennium, we have the most pro-nurse legislature in recent years!
January 18, 2019 • 3 minutes to read
The Washington State Nurses Association is deeply disappointed in the ruling of a federal district court in Texas v. Azar, that found the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional.If the Texas judge’s decision on the Affordable Care Act is allowed to stand, millions of Americans will have their health, their financial security and…
December 18, 2018 • 1 minute to read
WSNA would like to congratulate Washington state nurse and WSNA member Teresa Ward, RN, PhD on her induction into the 2018 Class of Academy Fellows!
November 14, 2018 • 1 minute to read
Nurse practitioners and physician assistants are enabled to prescribe buprenorphine permanently with a medication-assisted treatment (MAT) waiver.
November 5, 2018 • 1 minute to read
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