The above video is from one of our current students, Julie McElroy.  Julie received the Katherine Brunken Scholarship and is this year's Outstanding Graduate.

It'll take more than a pandemic to stop this year's RN-to-BSN students from achieving their goal: WWU graduation.  

COMPASSIONATE HEARTS, PRACTICAL HANDS, ACTIVE MINDS

Our vision to cultivate excellence in nursing leadership and transform the future of healthcare through collaborative partnerships is continuing to bear fruit! 

We have 32 students currently, our tenth cohort, persisting in their studies despite the challenges we are all facing with COVID-19.  Most of our students are working full-time as RNs, on the front lines of the efforts to help heal our community.  We are very proud of them, and of our over 200 alumni from Western nursing (including the nearly 100 students who graduated in the 1980’s)!  Everyday, we are working to fulfill our mission of upholding social justice and advancing system changes that promote healthy communities resulting in safe, high-quality health care for all.

WHY YOUR SUPPORT MATTERS – AND WHY IT IS A SOLID INVESTMENT

Nursing education has never been more important.  Please help us ensure we are able to keep recruiting the best and the brightest students, by making a gift today. 

• The four-quarter BSN program at WWU costs nearly $15,000.
• Many BSN students are their families' primary bread-winners.  Your financial support helps them now, supporting their education, and helps our community later, as they enter into nursing leadership positions and graduate schools.
• For our BSN students, their work towards this degree represents a conscious choice and step in their careers, gaining new abilities and energy for improving the health care system. Our students are driven, determined and committed.
• Western’s BSN program prepares our graduates to be informed decision-makers: it gives them knowledge, voice, and critical thinking skills.  They are prepared to address increasingly complex health issues as practitioners, community advocates and healthcare leaders.

Below is one of 2019's graduates, Jessica Reinstra (far left) with Governor Jay Inslee as he unveiled the first-in-nation approach to eliminate Hepatits C in Washington by 2030 in September 2018.  Jessica works at the Lummi Tribal Health Center as the Hepatitis C Project Coordinator, Harm Reduction & Overdoes Prevention Nurse and plans to pursue her graduate education as well.