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Nominations now open for WSNA office

Step up into a leadership role and help shape the future of WSNA

November 14, 2024

Nurses mourn sudden closure of Virginia Mason’s Family Birth Center

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

Pearls for Practice: Highlights of 2024 meal and rest break law

Beginning July 1, employers are required to provide employees with a method to accurately record when an employee misses a meal or rest period.

November 14, 2024

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

November 14, 2024

St. Joseph Medical Center nurses seek better staffing, safety

After 10 bargaining sessions, nurses held informational picket Nov. 1.

November 12, 2024

AFT’s Weingarten reacts to results of the 2024 election

Press release

What binds us as Americans is far more important than what divides us.

November 9, 2024

Nurses at Virginia Mason holding a vigil to protest closure of Family Birth Center

Press release

Community invited to share frustration at Nov. 14 event (6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.)

November 8, 2024

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.

November 1, 2024

Nurses at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma picket Nov. 1 for better conditions

Press release

Staffing levels keep falling and workplace violence and security need drastic improvement

October 31, 2024

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.

October 22, 2024

Home health nurses in Spokane seek community support for safety measures

Press release

Providence VNA Home Health nurses collected more than a thousand signatures from the community

October 16, 2024

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.

October 16, 2024

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

October 14, 2024

Turn! Turn! Turn!

To everything there is a reason for avoiding hospital-acquired pressure injuries

October 14, 2024

ANA Membership Assembly reaffirms support for hospital staffing ratios

Members debate Code of Ethics and vote down a presidential endorsement

October 14, 2024

Novice to expert: The value of nursing expertise

Dr. Patricia Benner’s five stages of clinical competence

October 14, 2024

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.

October 14, 2024

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

October 14, 2024

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.

October 14, 2024

Former WSNA President Donna Poole, a nurse leader, passes

Poole helped lead fight for full prescriptive authority for ARNPs.

September 26, 2024

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.

September 17, 2024

WSNA follow-up statement on closure of Sacred Heart adolescent psychiatry unit

Press release Statement

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

Sacred Heart healthcare workers holding rally for accountability Sept. 5 in Spokane

Press release

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

Inslee appoints WSNA member Keondra Rustan to UW Board of Regents

Press release

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