The above video is from one of our August 2020 graduates, Julie McElroy.  Julie received one of our nursing scholarships, which are all possible due to the generosity of people like you.

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 22 students currently in line to graduate in August. These students have persisted in their studies despite the continuing challenges that we have all faced again this year with COVID-19.  Most of our students are working full-time as RNs, helping heal our communities every day.  We are very proud of them, and of our 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.  

• Thanks to the Governor and Washington State Legislature, our program will begin receiving state funding in July, allowing us to reduce our tuition by almost $5,000.  The BSN program at WWU will cost about $12,500 for our incoming students.  While this is wonderful news, the program expenses can still be daunting for students, some of whom are carrying debt from their Associate degree programs as they begin their nursing careers.
• 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 graduates, Jessica Reinstra (far left) with Governor Jay Inslee as he unveiled the first-in-nation approach to eliminate Hepatitis C in Washington by 2030 in September 2018.  Jessica worked 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.