March 31, 2025
March 21, 2025
Each year more than 3,000 people get care they otherwise would not be able to access because of volunteer participation.
January 8, 2025
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
The nurses voted overwhelmingly in favor of the contract in a historic turnout.
December 17, 2024
The public health clinics see around 80,000 people a year in King County.
December 13, 2024
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.
Health equity acknowledges that individuals have different needs and face diverse barriers to health.
December 9, 2024
King County Council is expected to vote on measure to protect public health clinics
November 15, 2024
WSNA will continue to support efforts to promote the NP role in Washington state.
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
Beginning July 1, employers are required to provide employees with a method to accurately record when an employee misses a meal or rest period.
After 10 bargaining sessions, nurses held informational picket Nov. 1.
November 12, 2024
Community invited to share frustration at Nov. 14 event (6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.)
November 8, 2024
Staffing levels keep falling and workplace violence and security need drastic improvement
October 31, 2024
Providence VNA Home Health nurses collected more than a thousand signatures from the community
October 16, 2024
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
To everything there is a reason for avoiding hospital-acquired pressure injuries
Members debate Code of Ethics and vote down a presidential endorsement
Dr. Patricia Benner’s five stages of clinical competence
AFT builds nurses’ power and brings us together with other professionals
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
Nurses want hospital to invest in employee nurses, not expensive travel nurses
August 7, 2024
WSNA calls strike provision in the draft revisions to ANA's Code of Ethics very problematic and encourages members to submit comments.
August 1, 2024
WSNA Executive Director David Keepnews has been elected as a vice-president of AFT.
July 25, 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
