January 21, 2025
January 15, 2025
Astria Toppenish Hospital's Labor and Delivery Unit closure highlights the dire state of healthcare, under served communities, and rising maternal mortality rates.
May 15, 2023
The Washington Nurse magazine showcases hospitals in the state and their communities. In this issue: Astria Toppenish Hospital.
From all of us to all of you, happy Nurses Week and Nurses Month.
May 8, 2023
Nurses are being driven to the brink. They love their jobs. They love their colleagues and their patients. But they cannot take the escalating patient loads.
May 1, 2023
Thank you, Governor Jay Inslee, for recognizing May 2023 as Nurses Month in Washington state.
Gov. Inslee signed a safe staffing bill that will improve working conditions for nurses and healthcare workers throughout the state.
April 21, 2023
Join a WSNA council or committee.
April 14, 2023
WSNA is a member-driven organization; volunteer elected leaders are essential to keeping members’ voices at the forefront.
His primary scholarship interests are in addressing the root causes of health inequity and disparities, building community leadership capacity, and using community-based participatory approaches that focus on equitable partnerships between communities and health systems.
April 13, 2023
His research focused on occupational health disparities, examining how employment opportunities, job conditions, and work organization contribute to chronic stress and work-related injury and illness — particularly for immigrants and workers of color.
Six registered nurses who attended WSNA Lobby Day on Feb. 2 in Olympia shared stories and statements about about safe staffing in these short videos.
February 10, 2023
WSLC represents and provides services for hundreds of local unions.
February 7, 2023
We have to keep saying it: Black lives matter.
February 3, 2023
The profession of nursing is magical and challenging. I do not want people to exploit and take our nurses for granted.
January 19, 2023
An insider’s look at how a historic contract with nurses came about, told from interviews with six members on the WSNA bargaining team
"We are making a difference in people’s lives, and I, personally, try to make a difference in every patient I encounter."
Stopping to honor the lives of Doug Brant, Jerald Lee Gordon, and all of our lost heroes should also be a reminder to recommit to advancing the honor and respect that all nurses deserve.
More than 2,055 signed in to support safe staffing standards legislation.
January 17, 2023
WSNA stands in support of the 7,000 NYSNA nurses on strike against Montefiore and Mt. Sinai hospitals in New York.
January 11, 2023
Since last session, the hospital staffing crisis has worsened; healthcare workers say safe staffing standards are the solution.
January 5, 2023
What a year! Here's a quick look back at 2022. Thanks for all you do, WSNA nurses.
January 4, 2023
Wishing you love, wonder and joy during the holidays and a healthy and prosperous new year.
December 19, 2022
WSNA's executive director joins AFT President Randi Weingarten and two registered nurses to discuss what needs to be done.
December 12, 2022
“This cold-blooded killing is an incalculable loss for Doug Brant’s patients, his family, his colleagues, his community, and WSNA. It is also a horrific example of the growing problem of violence against nurses and other healthcare workers.”
December 6, 2022
