August 15, 2025
July 10, 2025
The closure deprives the community of another birth center and leaves dozens of labor and delivery nurses without a job they loved.
November 14, 2024
Beginning July 1, employers are required to provide employees with a method to accurately record when an employee misses a meal or rest period.
Early bird registration of $300 ends Jan. 15; after that, the rate is $350
After 10 bargaining sessions, nurses held informational picket Nov. 1.
November 12, 2024
What binds us as Americans is far more important than what divides us.
November 9, 2024
Community invited to share frustration at Nov. 14 event (6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.)
November 8, 2024
Terry leaves behind a legacy of hope and achievement. She not only advanced the nursing profession, but she paved the way for African American nurses and worked with vulnerable populations.
November 1, 2024
Staffing levels keep falling and workplace violence and security need drastic improvement
October 31, 2024
WSNA remembers and honors Hilke Faber, an amazing nurse advocate who died on October 19.
October 22, 2024
Providence VNA Home Health nurses collected more than a thousand signatures from the community
October 16, 2024
The WSNA Bylaws/Resolutions Committee is inviting proposals for resolutions and for bylaws amendments for consideration by the General Assembly.
Among the resolutions passed were two introduced by WSNA: one calling for tighter scrutiny and restrictions on healthcare consolidation, and one advocating for strengthened efforts to prevent workplace violence in healthcare
October 14, 2024
To everything there is a reason for avoiding hospital-acquired pressure injuries
Members debate Code of Ethics and vote down a presidential endorsement
Dr. Patricia Benner’s five stages of clinical competence
The Washington State Nurses Association has been the leading voice for nurses in the state since 1908. We have learned a lot about getting things done and emerging stronger after adversity.
AFT builds nurses’ power and brings us together with other professionals
Our values remain focused on serving our members, our profession, and our patients in the best way we can.
Poole helped lead fight for full prescriptive authority for ARNPs.
September 26, 2024
Eunice Cole, former WSNA and ANA president, passed away on Sept. 15, 2024, leaving a lasting legacy as a champion for nurses' rights, collective bargaining, and leadership in healthcare.
September 17, 2024
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.
September 5, 2024
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.
August 28, 2024
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
August 19, 2024
The WSNA Board of Directors today issued the following statement endorsing Kamala Harris for President of the United States.
August 15, 2024
