WCN History
The Center's background
Nursing leaders in Washington State have been working since the late '90's to address the need for nurses; specialized education and skills while supply was being predicted to be inadequate. The Nursing summit in 2001 resulted in a strategic Plan for Nursing to ensure that we have enough nurses to care for our citizens. A Center for Nursing to focus only on nursing issues was created in 2004, and progress is being made!
WCN brochure 2010 (click here for PDF)
Download and read the Council on Nursing Education's Articulation Plan. (This document is in PDF format. You must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed to view this document.)
Funding:
WCN is a nonprofit 501c3 charitable organization founded by nurses and supported a wide variety of stakeholders who are concerned about the nursing workforce issues in our state. We are funded by individual contributions, corporate donations, & grants.
Current Grants:
WA State Department of Health:
SB5599 authorized the Department of Heath to collect a $5.00 surcharge on each RN and LPN license to fund a nursing resource center to complete specific projects. Use of this money is restricted to those projects.
The Ben B. Cheney Foundation provided a grant for Board of Director development and policy development.
The Group Health Community Foundationfunded a study on experiences of minority new graduate nurses going through residencies in their first jobs.
The Microsoft Corporation gave WCN a generous grant for hardware and software, through TechSoup.
The Norman Archibald Foundation has provided generous grants for hardware and software.
