A holiday wish from WSNA
We wish you a peaceful holiday season.
2025 WSNA membership dues
WSNA membership dues rate effective Jan. 1, 2025.
2025 WSNA membership dues
WSNA membership dues rate effective Jan. 1, 2025.
CWRNA holds first annual meeting
CWRNA held its first annual meeting Nov. 9 in Yakima.
Nominations now open for WSNA office
Step up into a leadership role and help shape the future of WSNA
WSNA’s Convention and General Assembly coming April 30-May 2
Early bird registration of $300 ends Jan. 15; after that, the rate is $350
St. Joseph Medical Center nurses seek better staffing, safety
After 10 bargaining sessions, nurses held informational picket Nov. 1.
Press release
AFT’s Weingarten reacts to results of the 2024 election
What binds us as Americans is far more important than what divides us.
Press release
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.)
Groundbreaking nurse Frances Terry, who paved the way for nurses of color, passes on
Terry leaves behind a legacy of hope and achievement. She not only advanced the nursing profession, but she paved the way for African American nurses and worked with vulnerable populations.
Press release
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
Legendary nurse advocate Hilke Faber passes on, leaving behind debt of gratitude
WSNA remembers and honors Hilke Faber, an amazing nurse advocate who died on October 19.
Press release
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
Call for proposed resolutions and bylaws amendments
The WSNA Bylaws/Resolutions Committee is inviting proposals for resolutions and for bylaws amendments for consideration by the General Assembly.
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
We’ve had your back since 1908
The Washington State Nurses Association has been the leading voice for nurses in the state since 1908. We have learned a lot about getting things done and emerging stronger after adversity.
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
Letter from Justin Gill, WSNA president
Our values remain focused on serving our members, our profession, and our patients in the best way we can.
By Justin Gill, DNP, APRN, RN, FNP-C, President, WSNA
Former WSNA President Donna Poole, a nurse leader, passes
Poole helped lead fight for full prescriptive authority for ARNPs.
In memoriam: Eunice Cole
Eunice Cole, former WSNA and ANA president, passed away on Sept. 15, 2024, leaving a lasting legacy as a champion for nurses' rights, collective bargaining, and leadership in healthcare.
Press release / Statement
WSNA follow-up statement on closure of Sacred Heart adolescent psychiatry unit
Providence wants the community to believe that closure of their adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit will not negatively impact the community and patients they once served. This is simply not true.
Press release
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.
Press release
Inslee appoints WSNA member Keondra Rustan to UW Board of Regents
Rustan is a second-year doctoral candidate in the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner program at the University of Washington and president of the Mary Mahoney Professional Nurses Organization
Press release / Statement
Washington State Nurses Association endorses Kamala Harris
The WSNA Board of Directors today issued the following statement endorsing Kamala Harris for President of the United States.
