Over the past several weeks your WSNA Officers and Nurse Representative have been in conversations with Providence HR involving topics specific to a retention bonus LOU (Letter of Understanding). Letters of Understandings (similar to MOU’s, Memorandum of Understanding) are enforceable agreements which become part of your WSNA contract. Over the course of the past month, we have had concerns on the amount of bonus Providence was initially offering other units in their proposals. Therefore, your local unit officers decided to submit an initial proposal that would mirror what other Providence facilities were offering their nurses. The initial proposal would seek to secure 4x more than what was currently being offered at $1,000 prorated based on FTE. Our ask was rejected, and Providence held firm on their initial $1,000.

While this doesn’t reach the level of sacrifice you have made, we were glad to secure this bonus and consider it a win for the nurses of PVNA.

Questions? You may contact your Nurse Rep Jaclyn Smedley BSN, RN at jsmedley@wsna.org.