October 15, 2025
August 15, 2025
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.
September 17, 2024
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.
September 5, 2024
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
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
August 19, 2024
The WSNA Board of Directors today issued the following statement endorsing Kamala Harris for President of the United States.
August 15, 2024
Nursing leaders Patsy Maloney and Jillian Pintye to be honored for their substantial impact on health and healthcare Oct. 31-Nov. 2
August 8, 2024
Nurses want hospital to invest in employee nurses, not expensive travel nurses
August 7, 2024
WSNA Executive Director David Keepnews has been elected as a vice-president of AFT.
July 25, 2024
WSNA takes a stand against political violence in any circumstance.
July 14, 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
WSNA adds our voice to the many civil organizations and labor unions in the U.S. and worldwide calling for an immediate ceasefire, access to humanitarian aid, release of all hostages, and a negotiated peace.
June 5, 2024
Carl Christensen, Beulah (Bea) Mae Smith, Sheila FitzGerald Umlauf, and Marilyn Annette Walli
May 29, 2024
Wages, illness banks, increased premiums among significant gains
Mary Reed, our finance director for 30 years, stepped down in January.
May 28, 2024
Kristen Kussmann joined WSNA’s Labor Counsel Dec. 4, 2023.
WSNA would not be where it is today without the significant contributions of these award winners
Transition to digital communications format, nurse legislators decline in numbers, new health equity CNE requirement, apply for a Washington multistate license, become a preceptor for student nurses.
Surrounded by past inductees, family, friends, and colleagues, 2024 inductees Katherine Camacho Carr, Butch de Castro, Jennifer Graves, Judi Lyons, Dawn Morrell, and Lynnette Vehrs were honored at a gala dinner held March 21.
May 23, 2024
One issue – Management’s refusal to negotiate fair wages for home health and hospice nurses
May 9, 2024
Happy Nurses Week from WSNA
May 6, 2024
Union leaders from 32 local units converged to celebrate victories, hear from labor leaders, and learn how to strengthen nursing's voice.
April 30, 2024
Nurses get support from local officials, labor leaders, the community
April 22, 2024
The 1,465 nurses are represented by the Washington State Nurses Association
April 15, 2024
