SUN members can use the provincial Work Situation Report (WSR) to document concerns regarding professional practice, workload, and/or staffing. This universal form is available to members in any practice setting or facility with Nursing Practice, Nursing Advisory Committee, and Independent Assessment Committee articles in their collective agreement (i.e, SUN/SAHO & All Nations Healing Hospital).

The form is fully adaptable to your specific needs, allowing for individualized input and supplemental narrative to ensure your shift details are captured. Documentation is your most effective tool when it is timely, consistent, and persistent.

Collective agreements that do not include professional practice articles can use similar steps to address professional practice, workload, and staffing concerns using low-level resolution, documentation, and review by their Local President.

What Members Need to Do:

  • Discuss with your colleagues on shift (i.e, colleagues, Charge Nurse, Coordinator, Clinical Resource Nurse or Clinical Nurse Educator), to identify possible solutions for professional practice, workload and/or staffing concerns.

  • If unresolved, contact your Manager/designate, in real-time, to find a solution. If not resolved by your Manager/designate, notify them that you will be completing a WSR.

  • Complete WSRs for ANY professional practice, workload, and/or staffing issue not resolved in real-time, as soon as possible, and not on work time.

  • WSRs are your evidence that problems exist in your work environment, care is unsafe, and doesn’t meet minimum requirements.  

Whom to Contact

Local President & NAC Chairperson: They are your experts on your collective agreement and professional practice work environment.

Regulatory Bodies: CRNS and CRPNS are mandated to protect the public. They set, interpret, and apply minimum requirements and best practices in registered nursing and Nurse Practitioner practice.

Canadian Nurses Protective Society (CNPS): They provide the required professional liability insurance to practice as a registered nurse or Nurse Practitioner. You can obtain confidential legal advice, review their publications on topics impacting professional practice, and complete continuing education through their monthly webinars.

Nurse Practice Officer: Your professional practice consultant assigned to each Local for support, advice, and assistance.

Servicing assignments can be found on the SUN website, or you can contact the SUN Provincial offices at: