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For the 23rd year in a row, nurses rank No. 1 in Gallup Poll.
January 15, 2025 • 1 minute to read
The documentary unpacks the critical role nurses play in the healthcare system and the communities they serve to achieve health equity.
The strike came after more than a year of negotiations failed to produce an agreement over staffing levels, pay and benefits.
January 15, 2025 • 2 minutes to read
Nearly 200 people came together in solidarity to take on the issues facing nurses at UW Medicine Montlake, UW Medicine Northwest, and Seattle Children’s Hospital.
Each year more than 3,000 people get care they otherwise would not be able to access because of volunteer participation.
January 8, 2025 • 1 minute to read
The primary issues are Providence’s unfair labor practices, dangerously understaffed hospitals, the ability to spend more time with patients, employee healthcare, and competitive wages and benefits.
January 6, 2025 • 1 minute to read
The nurses voted overwhelmingly in favor of the contract in a historic turnout.
December 17, 2024 • 2 minutes to read
The public health clinics see around 80,000 people a year in King County.
December 13, 2024 • 2 minutes to read
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.
December 13, 2024 • 3 minutes to read
Health equity acknowledges that individuals have different needs and face diverse barriers to health.
December 9, 2024 • 4 minutes to read
King County Council is expected to vote on measure to protect public health clinics
November 15, 2024 • 1 minute to read
The closure deprives the community of another birth center and leaves dozens of labor and delivery nurses without a job they loved.
November 14, 2024 • 2 minutes to read
After 10 bargaining sessions, nurses held informational picket Nov. 1.
November 12, 2024 • 2 minutes to read
Community invited to share frustration at Nov. 14 event (6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.)
November 8, 2024 • 1 minute to read
Staffing levels keep falling and workplace violence and security need drastic improvement
October 31, 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
October 14, 2024 • 1 minute to read
AFT builds nurses’ power and brings us together with other professionals
October 14, 2024 • 4 minutes to read
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 • 2 minutes to read
Nurses want hospital to invest in employee nurses, not expensive travel nurses
August 7, 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
Wages, illness banks, increased premiums among significant gains
May 29, 2024 • 2 minutes to read
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