Opportunities are Happening for Spokane Regional HD nurses!
Posted Feb 10, 2026
Join Us April 26-28 at WSNA Leadership Convention!
TWO Full Scholarships available from WSNA’s Labor Executive Council. Contact your Nurse Rep to take advantage of this great, FREE opportunity!

Located at the Wenatchee Convention Center, steps from the Columbia River.
Now more than ever, unions need strong leaders like you.
This conference is your chance to hear the latest about the labor movement, build power together and recharge for the challenges ahead. Level up your Leadership skills by hearing from state and national labor leaders and celebrating union nurses who have taken the lead over the past two years.
Registration is open! Click here to begin.
Scholarships are available is for two nurses from the Spokane Regional HD to attend and will cover cost of registration, travel, food and lodging. First come, first serve. Email Jaclyn Smedley Nurse Rep at jsmedley@wsna.org to secure this amazing opportunity!
Officer positions are available!
Want to get involved and join the WSNA Officers? We’d love to have you! Open positions include: WSNA local unit cochair (soon), staffing committee cochair, new hire membership steward (connects with new members, attends New Hire Orientation)
Contact Nurse Rep Jaclyn Smedley at jsmedley@wsna.org to get started!
We're Stronger Together
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Sign up here: Membership application - WSNA
Nurses Education Series (NES): Navigating Nursing Practice in the sea of AI
Date: Saturday, March 14, 2026
Time: 9 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. (PST)
Location: Zoom
Tickets: Free for WSNA members
**2.5 hours of ANCC contact hours (pending approval)
Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming part of everyday health care, from electronic health records to search engines and clinical tools. While AI offers exciting possibilities, it is not a replacement for trained clinicians; it is simply another tool.
Nurses can approach AI as they would any other clinical tool, using it intentionally and with a critical eye. By exploring what AI is and is not, along with its benefits and limitations and how it is being used in nursing practice today, nurses can gain confidence in when to use AI and when not to.
Participants will come away with a clearer understanding of how nursing skills, critical thinking, and clinical judgment remain essential as AI becomes a permanent part of the health care landscape.
Link to register: https://nwrna.org/education-events/2026-nurse-education-series/
Continuing Education: This activity has been submitted to Oregon Nurses Association for approval to award contact hours. Oregon Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Upon approval, attendees may earn 2.5 contact hours. Participants must be present for or view all the educational activity to receive contact hours.
Questions? Comments? Contact one of your WSNA officers or your nurse rep, Jaclyn Smedley BSN, RN at jsmedley@wsna.org
