WCN is expanding its efforts to ensure Washington’s nursing workforce issues become a priority for policy makers and key stakeholders in Washington State.
The state’s economic slowdown has led to misperceptions that Washington has enough RNs, partly because some new graduates have experienced problems finding first jobs. However, with an aging population, aging caregiver workforce, and over 300,000 additional individuals who will become eligible for care under health care reform, Washington’s nursing shortage is expected to worsen.
WCN’s most recent effort includes collaborating within Washington to implement the recently released recommendations from the IOM and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health that lays out a blueprint for nursing in our country. In addition, WCN is conducting a series of editorial board visits to media outlets across the state to provide them with accurate information on nursing workforce issues.
For more information on our campaign efforts, contact Linda Tieman,
WCN Executive Director.
