Pearls for Practice: Highlights of 2024 meal and rest break law
Beginning July 1, employers are required to provide employees with a method to accurately record when an employee misses a meal or rest period.
St. Joseph Medical Center nurses seek better staffing, safety
After 10 bargaining sessions, nurses held informational picket Nov. 1.
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Nurses at Virginia Mason holding a vigil to protest closure of Family Birth Center
Community invited to share frustration at Nov. 14 event (6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.)
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Nurses at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma picket Nov. 1 for better conditions
Staffing levels keep falling and workplace violence and security need drastic improvement
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Home health nurses in Spokane seek community support for safety measures
Providence VNA Home Health nurses collected more than a thousand signatures from the community
Highlights from the Washington State Labor Council Constitutional Convention
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
Turn! Turn! Turn!
To everything there is a reason for avoiding hospital-acquired pressure injuries
ANA Membership Assembly reaffirms support for hospital staffing ratios
Members debate Code of Ethics and vote down a presidential endorsement
By Justin Gill, DNP, APRN, RN, FNP-C, President, WSNA and David Keepnews, PhD, JD, RN, FAAN
Novice to expert: The value of nursing expertise
Dr. Patricia Benner’s five stages of clinical competence
By Megan Kilpatrick, MSN, RN, Education Director
Op-ed: ‘Affiliating with AFT is one of the best decisions WSNA ever made’
AFT builds nurses’ power and brings us together with other professionals
By David Keepnews, PhD, JD, RN, FAAN
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Sacred Heart healthcare workers holding rally for accountability Sept. 5 in Spokane
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.
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Skyline nurses seek community support in negotiations
Nurses want hospital to invest in employee nurses, not expensive travel nurses
WSNA raises concerns about draft ANA Code of Ethics provision
WSNA calls strike provision in the draft revisions to ANA's Code of Ethics very problematic and encourages members to submit comments.
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Keepnews elected as an AFT vice-president
WSNA Executive Director David Keepnews has been elected as a vice-president of AFT.
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Skagit nurses demand equitable pay at hospital board meeting
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.
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Nurses at St. Joseph’s in Tacoma celebrating Juneteenth by taking action
They will be collecting signatures for hospital to recognize Juneteenth and to preserve nurse-centered Racial Justice Task Force
Help protect long-term care insurance for millions of Washington residents
Vote NO on Initiative 2124
WSNA members appointed to state healthcare advisory groups
Consult sought on healthcare costs and palliative care benefits
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WSNA wins strong tentative agreement at PeaceHealth Southwest
Wages, illness banks, increased premiums among significant gains
Nurses at Washington Soldiers Home provide a sanctuary for vets
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.
By Bobbi Nodell, Marketing and Communications Manager
WSNA honors nurses for leadership of bargaining units
WSNA would not be where it is today without the significant contributions of these award winners
By Ruth Schubert, APR, Director of Marketing and Communications
Path to Power: Candidates reshaping political landscape of Washington state
Empowering the next generation of pro-union politicians
By Jared Richardson, MN, RN, Nurse Representative
The Lasso Way: evidence-based practices for effective teams
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.
By Megan Kilpatrick, MSN, RN, Education Director
Avoiding preventable harm
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.
By Cheri Osler, Ed.D, MS-CNS, AHN-BC, LMHC, RN, CNE and Gloria Brigham, EdD, MN, RN, Director of Nursing Practice and Megan Kilpatrick, MSN, RN, Education Director
