As we are starting 2021, we want to take a moment to inform you on what the staffing committee has accomplished this past year. This committee has been hard at work behind the scene for you advocating for better staff.

This past year one of the nurses from CCU had stepped up to be the co-chair for the staff nurse, Heather Likins. Heather hit the ground running with taking this role on in the middle of the pandemic on one of the busiest floors in the hospital. There have been many new nurses from various floors join this committee in the past year, see list of committee members below.

We want you to know that this committee had reviewed every ADO and PSA (dealing with staffing concerns) from 2020. We were unsatisfied with leadership's process for reviewing complaints, so we developed a new system to ensure each and every complaint is heard. Your fellow nurses worked hard to have all the voices heard and now are reviewing these complaints in a timely manner. Due to these nurses advocating to leadership, more incentive shifts are being offered in areas that were not really using them. From our meeting this month, the nurses wanted to make sure that this information was shared with everyone. The data from the staffing committee about ADO/PSA should be posted on your huddle boards. (If this is not the case, please reach out to the officers, staffing committee chairs or your nurse rep Michelle Moore at mmoore@wsna.org).

Below is the list of your current nursing committee members. Some units don’t have a staff representative, if you are interested please reach out to officers, staffing committee chairs or your nurse representative.

Jones 18 Shannon Akers
CP 17 Kelli Oatman
CP 15 Madelyn Keene
Jones 11 Haley Sheridan
CP 10 Amber Robinson
CCU Heather Likins ( Co-chair for staff committee)
PCU Kristen Gianotti (Co-chair for staffing committee)
Emergency Leona Flores
OR Suzanne Baek (Officer Treasurer)
Float Pool Kari Benning (Officer Co-Chair)
OIC Hilary Turnberg
Resource RN Jane Hill-LittleJohn

If you have questions about what goes on at these meeting, how to fill out a staffing complaint or have other concerns, please reach out. Here is the site to be able to fill out the Staffing complaint: https://www.wsna.org/ado.

In Solidarity,
Your Staffing Committee Nurses