We are collecting information from staff members whenever a unit goes under the approved matrix, even for a short while. UW must maintain compliance throughout each shift.

When the hospital is out of compliance for more than 6 days a month, we will report it to DOH. The hospital will then be mandated to make corrections and if not corrected, they will be fined.

We need to be able to contact you by email if we have questions, but this will not be given to management.

Please email: 

• uwnwstaffingcompliance@gmail.com

We need the following information:

• Date
• Shift (day or NOC)
• Unit
• Number of patients per staffing grid
• Actual number of patients on unit
• Number of RNs per staffing grid
• Actual number of RNs per staffing grid
• Number of CNAs per staffing grid
• Actual number of CNAs per staffing grid

Important Steps About the Discipline Process

• If your manager or direct supervisor asks to have a conversation with you, please remember this phrase:
  • Can this lead to discipline now or in the future?
• If the answer is No, please have the conversation but recap with an email. If the answer is YES, you can request a union representative, and you are only obligated to listen to your manager. (Anything you say is part of the record)
• If you have an investigatory meeting, please bring one of the grievance officers or the nurse representative with you to this meeting.
• After the investigatory meeting, you may receive discipline. At this point, we will discuss filing a grievance
• If you are issued a discipline, it’s important to remember to request the discipline be removed from your file after 2-years unless a different drop date is added to the discipline.

Keep Filing ADOs

Please continue filing an ADO whenever the staffing plan is not met, you miss a meal or rest break, break buddies are used, or available help is denied. Include as much detail as possible, especially when someone volunteered to stay but was not approved. 

File an ADO at www.wsna.org/ado.

Meal and Rest Breaks

• Meal and Rest break waivers are wholly voluntary, and you can revoke all or part of them at any time. 
• If you revoke your waiver for the timing of your meal and rest breaks and you cannot get those breaks during legally allotted time, you may still clock out missed meal and rest breaks. 

Questions? Contact WSNA Nurse Representative Stephenie Troftgruben at stroftgruben@wsna.org.