Feb 19, 2021
WSNA in Olympia: 2021 Legislative Session Week 6
Policy hearings continued this week, and WSNA weighed in on numerous bills.
Top links
WSNA is hiring! Currently recruiting for: Labor Counsel, Nurse Representative, Executive Director and Strategic Researcher.
News
Feb 13, 2021
WSNA in Olympia: 2021 Legislative Session Week 5
Policy hearings continued this week, and WSNA weighed in on numerous bills.
Feb 1, 2021
UPDATE: How you can help administer COVID-19 vaccinations
To help deliver vaccines across the state, nurses must register as an Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioner in the Washington State Emergency Registry of Volunteers (WAserv) at WAserv.org.
Jan 15, 2021
Filling the nurse faculty gap
To graduate the number of nurses needed to meet the demand, Washington state needs more nurse faculty. In 2016, the Washington Center for Nursing (WCN) began efforts to examine whether there was a nurse faculty shortage.
Jan 15, 2021
Climate change and nurses
I looked out my window and saw the burnt orange sun rise over the Cascades, but the mountain range was hidden by the smoke. Is this our new normal?
Jan 14, 2021
COVID-19: Voices from the front lines
In October, as a winter surge of COVID-19 cases loomed ahead, we spoke to five nurses about their experiences on the front lines over the past year. Here are their stories.
Upcoming events
2021 Washington State Nurses Convention
Apr 28, 2021 – Apr 29, 2021
In the press
ASSOCIATED PRESS: Washington governor wants to vaccinate 45K people a day (1/21/21)
KING5: Washington hospitals face nursing shortage as pandemic causes burnout among staff (1/15/21)
THE STAND: WSNA, others call on Seattle Children’s to address racism (1/6/21)
KNDU: Nurses ask for community help in battling COVID-19 (11/18/20)
Links
- For ANCC certification, contact American Nurses Credentialing Center.
- For licensing information, contact the Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission.
- Foreign nurses moving to Washington State, contact The Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools.
- For online continuing education, check out options from WSNA's continuing education website and from ANA.
- For liability insurance, WSNA endorses Nurses Service Organization (NSO).
Partner organizations
Resources
- WSNA members and employees enjoy discounted tuition from WGU.
- HEAL-WA: providing evidence-based information to support patient care.