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Nurses afraid overcrowding, understaffing at Mary Bridge NICU could lead to missed care
MultiCare can and must do more to improve staffing levels immediately
Nursing practice and Safe staffing and WSNA
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WSNA files unfair labor practice charge against PeaceHealth Southwest after 14 bargaining sessions
One issue – Management’s refusal to negotiate fair wages for home health and hospice nurses
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Massive picket in Vancouver by PeaceHealth SW nurses
Nurses get support from local officials, labor leaders, the community
By Bobbi Nodell, Marketing and Communications Manager
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Nurses at PeaceHealth SW in Vancouver drop notice to picket April 18
Severe understaffing does not allow nurses to meet community’s needs
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ANA announces support for federal staffing ratios bill
Appropriate nurse staffing is achievable and necessary, but it requires a national response with solutions, standards, and policy.
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Virginia Mason nurses to picket outside hospital Oct. 10
Picket comes after 15 bargaining sessions
WSNA names members to state staffing advisory committee
The advisory committee on hospital staffing will start by advising DOH on its development of the uniform hospital staffing plan form.
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MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital nurses vote to strike over staffing and dedicated break nurses
MultiCare Good Samaritan nurses overwhelmingly voted by 95% to strike Wednesday night. The main issues for the 750 nurses represented by WSNA are staffing and dedicated break nurses.
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MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital nurses hold strike vote June 20 and 21
Good Sam nurses are seeking safe staffing measures in their contract that will ensure they are able to give their patients the care they need and deserve.
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Senators hear from healthcare workers on hospital staffing crisis
More than 2,055 signed in to support safe staffing standards legislation.
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WA healthcare workers take fight for safe staffing standards back to Olympia
Since last session, the hospital staffing crisis has worsened; healthcare workers say safe staffing standards are the solution.
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AFT, America’s fastest-growing healthcare union, unveils report detailing troubling healthcare staffing crisis
Report Includes strategies to improve nation’s healthcare facilities and concrete examples of successful implementation.
Q&A with Jacob Garcia
Garcia, a nurse at Sunnyside Community Hospital in Yakima County, grew up with a grandmother who helped organize migrant workers in California alongside Cesar Chavez.
By Bobbi Nodell, Marketing and Communications Manager
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Statement from safe staffing coalition on HB 1868
Today the WA Safe + Healthy coalition released a joint statement on the state Senate failing to pass safe staffing standards for healthcare workers.
David Keepnews, WSNA executive director, featured on RN Mentor podcast
Listen to David discuss his path to WSNA and current issues in nursing like safe staffing in this hourlong conversation.
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Symptomatic health care workers must not be forced to work
We call on employers to clarify their policies, and we call on the state to ensure workers cannot be forced to return while sick, or disciplined for refusing to work while symptomatic with COVID.
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Healthcare workers launch campaign for safe staffing legislation
Today a coalition of healthcare workers launched the WA Safe + Healthy campaign calling on Washington legislators to pass safe staffing standards that protect healthcare workers from dangerously high patient loads.
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Nurses and community picket for nurse and patient safety at St. Joe’s Tacoma
Hundreds of nurses, patients and community leaders gathered outside St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma on Nov. 3 to demand the hospital improve conditions so nurses can provide safe, high-quality care to every patient.
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Washington state health care workers call on hospitals to mitigate the staffing crisis
Nurses and other frontline workers are calling on hospitals to use the tools and resources they have available to finally begin mitigating this crisis for workers and patients.
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PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center nurses rally for safe staffing
Nurses say PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center needs to do more to attract new nurses and retain the nurses it has after a brutal year on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. On April 10, hundreds of registered nurses and supporters rallied at the Vancouver Waterfront to call for safe nurse staffing at Southwest.
