May 22, 2025
April 29, 2025
Washington’s 2025 session ended with new laws to protect nurses from workplace violence and support striking workers, plus a state budget that boosts health and education funding.
WSNA member Kyla Arama is part of a team transforming lives in Sierra Leone.
April 12, 2025
As part of a national day of action, WSNA President Justin Gill will speak at a Seattle rally protesting recent federal actions impacting healthcare, workers' rights, and public services.
March 31, 2025
The first meal and rest break compliance reports are in and it shows everything is going according to law.
March 17, 2025
CommonSpirit Health recently announced a safety upgrade to all 137 of its hospitals. This comes after our nurses at Virginia Mason and St. Joseph Medical Center paved the way.
March 14, 2025
For many nurses at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital, the hospital cannot be trusted to follow its stated core values of respect, integrity, stewardship, excellence, collaboration, kindness, and joy.
The law now requires employers to submit a quarterly report to the Department of Labor and Industries on compliance.
Participants nationwide called on lawmakers to take a stand against cuts to the Department of Education and Medicaid outlined in the House’s budget resolution.
March 5, 2025
Justin Gill will share his perspective on how the disruption to research funding and federal organizations impacts scientists and healthcare workers and patients.
February 28, 2025
The recommended codes use plain language instead of color codes to ensure that staff, patients, and visitors can easily understand the announcements.
February 12, 2025
“The hospital’s practice had effectively created a systemic wage disparity that intersected with national origin and race, as the affected nurses were all people of color.”
Black history is inseparable from the fight for health equity. From past pioneers to today’s changemakers, progress is built on knowledge and action. WSNA has gathered essential DEI resources—including our own and others—to help you learn, reflect, and advocate.
February 11, 2025
If you missed WSNA’s health equity webinar in November 2024, you can now view an online course by the same presenter.
Nurses with international experience get equal pay at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma.
"We stand with trans kids, their families, and the numerous voices urging Seattle Children’s Hospital to resume its position as an advocate and full care provider for trans patients."
February 7, 2025
If ICE agents enter your workplace, the following information is important for you to know.
January 27, 2025
We express deep concerns regarding nominations that have recently been announced by the incoming administration, and we share the need to take a clear stand at this moment to clarify our profession’s priorities.
January 16, 2025
Nurses at Providence VNA hope Compassus will operate more ethically than Cerberus did with Steward Health, but they remain concerned about the future under a company with substantial private equity ownership.
For the 23rd year in a row, nurses rank No. 1 in Gallup Poll.
January 15, 2025
The documentary unpacks the critical role nurses play in the healthcare system and the communities they serve to achieve health equity.
This new law, effective Jan. 1, 2024, establishes a presumptive eligibility structure for nurses suffering from PTSD.
Each year more than 3,000 people get care they otherwise would not be able to access because of volunteer participation.
January 8, 2025
The public health clinics see around 80,000 people a year in King County.
December 13, 2024
The sudden closure was not just the end of a service line, it took away the soul of a community and robbed healthcare staff from their calling. This closure was set in motion by the consolidation of healthcare.
