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The closure deprives the community of another birth center and leaves dozens of labor and delivery nurses without a job they loved.
Nov. 14, 2024 • 2 minutes to read
Beginning July 1, employers are required to provide employees with a method to accurately record when an employee misses a meal or rest period.
Nov. 14, 2024 • 1 minute to read
After 10 bargaining sessions, nurses held informational picket Nov. 1.
Nov. 12, 2024 • 2 minutes to read
Community invited to share frustration at Nov. 14 event (6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.)
Nov. 8, 2024 • 1 minute to read
Staffing levels keep falling and workplace violence and security need drastic improvement
Oct. 31, 2024 • 3 minutes to read
Providence VNA Home Health nurses collected more than a thousand signatures from the community
Oct. 16, 2024 • 3 minutes to read
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
Oct. 14, 2024 • 1 minute to read
To everything there is a reason for avoiding hospital-acquired pressure injuries
Oct. 14, 2024 • 2 minutes to read
Members debate Code of Ethics and vote down a presidential endorsement
Oct. 14, 2024 • 4 minutes to read
Dr. Patricia Benner’s five stages of clinical competence
AFT builds nurses’ power and brings us together with other professionals
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.
Aug. 28, 2024 • 2 minutes to read
Nurses want hospital to invest in employee nurses, not expensive travel nurses
Aug. 7, 2024 • 2 minutes to read
WSNA calls strike provision in the draft revisions to ANA's Code of Ethics very problematic and encourages members to submit comments.
Aug. 1, 2024 • 2 minutes to read
WSNA Executive Director David Keepnews has been elected as a vice-president of AFT.
July 25, 2024 • 1 minute to read
After 5 months of contract negotiations, the nurses at Skagit Valley Hospital spoke at the Board of Commissioners meeting and delivered a letter demanding fair and equitable pay.
July 11, 2024 • 3 minutes to read
They will be collecting signatures for hospital to recognize Juneteenth and to preserve nurse-centered Racial Justice Task Force
June 17, 2024 • 4 minutes to read
Vote NO on Initiative 2124
June 12, 2024 • 2 minutes to read
Consult sought on healthcare costs and palliative care benefits
June 5, 2024 • 2 minutes to read
Wages, illness banks, increased premiums among significant gains
May 29, 2024 • 2 minutes to read
The Washington Nurse wants to provide readers a closer look at local units across the state and the communities they serve. For this issue, we look at Washington Soldiers Home in Orting.
May 28, 2024 • 2 minutes to read
WSNA would not be where it is today without the significant contributions of these award winners
May 28, 2024 • 9 minutes to read
Empowering the next generation of pro-union politicians
What Ted understands and believes is that each person on the team—the captain, coach, star player, and locker room attendant—all have important roles to play to ensure that the team functions at its best.
May 28, 2024 • 4 minutes to read
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