Staffing Complaint Forms

Staffing in health care has been a crisis for years, and health care workers have been fighting to change that for just as long. We know our patients are safer with adequate staffing in all departments, job titles, and care settings, and that our work is only sustainable and safe when we have the support we need.

If you are facing staffing issues in your workplace, on any shift, in any department, there are avenues to address it, but it needs to be reported. Staffing issues that are not documented are difficult or impossible to fix, so please take the time to document all short staffing you experience including: not following staffing plans, higher census than expected, higher patient acuity, need for equipment or staff support, inappropriate assignments, etc.

The first step is to file the appropriate staffing complaint form for your job class: for nurses, a formal nurse staffing complaint (we call this a Collaborative Staffing Intervention or CSI) or for other job classifications, a union Staffing, Safety, & Workplace Concern Report.

Click below to file your report:

Other avenues to address health care staffing problems:

DOSH COMPLAINT: Report safety issues and/or hazardous working conditions directly to the Department of Labor & Industries (L&I).

DOH COMPLAINT: Report unsafe staffing directly to the Washington State Department of Health (DOH). We encourage members who file a DOH complaint to also follow-up with a CSI report, ensuring the hospital as a record of the issue.

Our union continues to fight for a statewide law requiring safe staffing—want to get involved in advocating to our state government to pass a safe staffing law? Get in touch.