About Trust Nurses
A state that sees its nurses.
Trust Nurses is a Washington State initiative dedicated to collecting, honoring, and amplifying the stories of the nurses who serve our communities — from Seattle emergency rooms to rural clinics in the Palouse.
Our mission
Recognition built on real stories, not statistics
Washington State has over 90,000 registered nurses. They work in hospitals and hospices, in schools and correctional facilities, in tribal health clinics and rural emergency departments. They are the largest single group of healthcare workers in the state — and among the least publicly recognized.
Trust Nurses was founded on a simple premise: the people who care for us deserve to be seen. Not in aggregate, not as workforce data, but as individuals — with names, histories, and reasons they chose this work.
We collect stories from nurses, from their patients, and from the communities they serve. We publish them without editorial polish — in the nurse's own voice, with the details that make a person real. We believe that recognition, done honestly, is a form of care in itself.
"Recognition, done honestly, is a form of care in itself."— Trust Nurses founding principle
We are not a union, a lobbying organization, or a healthcare system. We have no agenda beyond the stories themselves. We are a small team of writers, nurses, and community members who believe that Washington's nurses deserve a public record of what they do — and why it matters.
We stay with the nurses we celebrate. Recognition is not a moment — it is a sustained act of attention to the people who show up every day.
We tell real stories. Not polished profiles — the hard shifts, the small victories, the weight that nurses carry and the grace with which they carry it.
Washington State is not a backdrop. It is the community these nurses belong to. Every story we tell is grounded in a specific place, a specific person.
By the numbers
Five years of showing up for Washington nurses
These numbers represent real people, real stories, and a real commitment to the nurses who hold Washington's healthcare together.
Join us
Know a nurse who deserves to be seen?
Share their story. It takes ten minutes and it lasts forever. Every submission is reviewed by our team and published with the nurse's consent.
How it works
A submission that respects everyone's time
- Ten-minute form — tell us who the nurse is and what they mean to you.
- We reach out — our team contacts the nurse directly for their consent and voice.
- Published with care — every story is edited for clarity, never for polish.
- Permanent record — stories live in our archive and are shared with the nurse's community.