Kick off this year's convention with a look back at the 2021-23 biennium and what's next.

This session will explore the strategic use of power by nurses to transform healthcare in the post-COVID era. Drs. Mason and McLemore will discuss the "old normal" versus the "new normal" in healthcare, identify strategies for creating a preferred "new normal," and engage in a dialogue with the audience about how nurses can use their voices and leverage policy to promote health.

Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and get to know the candidates running for statewide WSNA office for the 2023-25 biennial term.

This optional session is for WSNA members who are represented by WSNA for collective bargaining.

Start your day centered and energized with this optional session.

Elsa Sjunneson, MA, a deafblind activist whose memoir, Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism, won for best biography/memoir in the 2022 Washington State Book Awards. She will address ending ableism against disabled persons in the healthcare system.

Lois James, PhD, assistant dean of Research and an associate professor in the Washington State University College of Nursing, focuses on the impact of sleep loss, fatigue, stress, and bias on performance and safety in shift workers such as nurses, police officers, firefighters, and military personnel. She will speak on her latest research.

Celebrate with friends new and old at this gala dinner featuring a live auction benefiting nursing scholarships and an awards ceremony to recognize the nursing heroes and leaders who have made a big impact on the profession.

Start your day centered and energized with this optional session.

Sara Kim, PhD, a research professor in surgery at the UW School of Medicine, is an expert on healthcare conflict and communication skills. She is the inaugural holder of the George G. B. Bilsten Professorship in the Art of Communication with Peers and Patients. Kim will discuss leading with a curious intention and forging a path to holding difficult conversations.

The Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Panel will discuss WSNA’ white paper and workbook on DEI. The panel will be facilitated by Meaghan Eagen-Torkko, PhD, CNM, ARNP, an assistant professor at the School of Nursing at the University of Washington-Bothell. She is a certified nurse midwife and a DEI advocate at the UW School of Nursing. She currently serves on the Ethics Committee and the Gender Equity Task Force for the American College of Nurse-Midwives.

Panel members: Rosa Young, Rachel Wang, Yuting Lin, Mikey O’Sullivan, and Chuck Comiskey

Ronda Conger, an award-winning author and highly acclaimed national speaker, is vice president of CRH Homes, and has flourished in a male-dominated industry for 30 years. She will speak on inspirational leadership through extraordinary times.