November 13, 2025
Staffing levels keep falling and workplace violence and security need drastic improvement
October 31, 2024
Providence VNA Home Health nurses collected more than a thousand signatures from the community
October 16, 2024
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
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.
August 28, 2024
Nurses want hospital to invest in employee nurses, not expensive travel nurses
August 7, 2024
WSNA calls strike provision in the draft revisions to ANA's Code of Ethics very problematic and encourages members to submit comments.
August 1, 2024
WSNA Executive Director David Keepnews has been elected as a vice-president of AFT.
July 25, 2024
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
They will be collecting signatures for hospital to recognize Juneteenth and to preserve nurse-centered Racial Justice Task Force
June 17, 2024
Vote NO on Initiative 2124
June 12, 2024
Consult sought on healthcare costs and palliative care benefits
June 5, 2024
Wages, illness banks, increased premiums among significant gains
May 29, 2024
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
WSNA would not be where it is today without the significant contributions of these award winners
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.
Nurses play a crucial role in preventing medication errors as a final check to determine whether a medication is correctly prescribed and dispensed before administration.
May 24, 2024
As we continue to navigate the post-pandemic world, let us not lose sight of what nursing stands for: care, safety, and empathy.
In honor of Nurses Week, we take a look at Florence Nightingale — her trailblazing work, her theory, and her complicated legacy.
May 23, 2024
PeaceHealth needs to do the right thing – pay home care nurses and hospice/palliative care nurses the same wages as hospital nurses.
May 17, 2024
