Floating & Reassignment at Kaiser Permanente — Northern California RNs & NPs

board access shall not be unreasonably denied. A designated Association representative shall be responsible for posting material submitted by the Association, a copy of which shall be furnished to the Employer before posting. The Association agrees that no controversial material shall be posted. It is further agreed that the Employer shall post position vacancies as provided in Article IX of the contract on such bulletin boards. ARTICLE V – PERSONNEL CATEGORIES Section A – Probationary Nurses Regular Registered Nurses may be discharged without recourse to the grievance procedure within the first ninety (90) days of employment. Short- Hour, Temporary and Per diem Registered Nurses may be discharged without recourse to the grievance procedure until such Nurse has been employed for six (6) months or worked three hundred (300) hours, whichever comes first. Section B – Regular Nurses A Regula …

Payroll is not able to verify an error within the designated time period, the Nurse(s) who reported the error shall be informed within the designated time period of the reasons for the delay in resolving the error. Employee vacation, sick, and education leave accrual hours and balance will be displayed on Employee payslips. ARTICLE VIII – SENIORITY Section A – Seniority, Accumulation and Application Regular Nurses and Short-Hour, Temporary and Per diem Nurses shall have equal seniority for transfers, promotions, and layoffs based upon their bargaining unit seniority. Regular Nurses shall accumulate seniority based upon length of continuous service with the Employer under this Agreement. Effective September 1, 2002, Short-Hour, Temporary and Per diem Nurses shall accumulate seniority on the basis of eighty-seven (87) hours of work equaling one (1) month's seniority credit, for hours worke …

Orientation for floating purposes only: 6. Nurses subject to floating will be thoroughly oriented into the designated float unit by a designated Staff Nurse Orienteer prior to taking a patient assignment. The Staff Nurse Orienteer will not have a patient assignment during orientation. If needed, Nurses will be provided up to 8 hours of orientation to the paired float unit, if necessary, with the exception of ICU to CMU, ICU nurses will be provided up to 4 hours of orientation. Orientation is defined as those elements contained in the normal orientation of Nurses new to the unit and is not intended to include clinical competence training. It is expected that Nurses to be oriented to the new/additional unit/clinic already possess the required clinical competencies. Such orientation will be conducted in small groups. No more than 4 RNs will be assigned to one Staff Nurse Orienteer for orien …

uding temporary staff as indicated in subsection 70217(m), shall receive and complete orientation to the hospital and their assigned patient care unit before receiving patient care assignments. Orientation to a specific unit may be modified in order to meet temporary staffing emergencies as described in subsection 70213(e). (2) All patient care personnel, including temporary staff as described in subsection 70217(m), shall be subject to the process of competency validation for their assigned patient care unit or units. Prior to the completion of validation of the competency standards for a patient care unit, patient care assignments shall be subject to the following restrictions: (A) Assignments shall include only those duties and responsibilities for which competency had been validated. (B) A Registered nurse who has demonstrated competency for the patient care unit shall be responsible …

main in accordance with current practice. A Nurse who wishes to take time off rather than accept alternative work (except for mandatory assignments, such as competency/regulatory modules) may notify the employer by placing his or her name on a list made for such purposes in the facility staffing office. A Nurse may cancel this request via telephone, with confirmation in writing to follow as soon as practical thereafter. The staffing office will develop a policy to implement this procedure. In the implementation of this Agreement, it is agreed that nursing supervisors and managers shall continue to give first priority to the delivery of high quality patient care. 3. Alternative Assignments: The Parties agree that the first source of alternative work shall be department based assignments. The Parties further agree that the second source will be the role of the Resource Nurse, with one Nurs …

s of diverse diagnoses and diverse age groups who require care appropriate to a medical/surgical unit. (12) The licensed nurse-to-patient ratio in a specialty care unit shall be 1:5 or fewer at all times. Commencing January 1, 2008, the licensed nurse-to- patient ratio in a specialty care unit shall be 1:4 or fewer at all times. A specialty care unit is defined as a unit which is organized, operated, and maintained to provide care for a specific medical condition or a specific patient population. Services provided in these units are more specialized to meet the needs of patients with the specific condition or disease process than APPENDIX K – SUMMARY OF STAFFING RATIOS FROM TITLE 22 REGULATIONS that which is required on medical/surgical units, and is not otherwise covered by subdivision (a). (13) The licensed nurse-to-patient ratio in a psychiatric unit shall be 1:6 or fewer at all times …

the purpose of removing that Nurse from the bargaining unit, or eliminate or remove from bargaining unit nurses the direct care responsibilities of Registered Nurses and Nurse Practitioners described in the preceding paragraph. Finally, the Employer also agrees that during the term of this Agreement it will not challenge the Union’s right to represent any Nurse in any job classification covered by this Agreement based on a claim that such Nurse is a supervisor within the meaning of the NLRA. Disputes concerning this provision may be referred directly to an expedited arbitration. The sole issue in any such arbitration shall be whether the Employer violated the commitments set forth in paragraph 103 of the Agreement. If the Employer is found to have violated paragraph 103, the sole remedies shall be restoration of the status quo ante, and a make- whole remedy for the affected bargaining u …

maged. “Technical support” is defined as specialized equipment and/or personnel providing for invasive monitoring, telemetry, or mechanical ventilation, for the immediate amelioration or remediation of severe pathology. (10) The licensed nurse-to-patient ratio in a telemetry unit shall be 1:5 or fewer at all times. Commencing January 1, 2008, the licensed nurse-to-patient ratio in a telemetry unit shall be 1:4 or fewer at all times. “Telemetry unit” is defined as a unit organized, operated, and maintained to provide care for and continuous cardiac monitoring of patients in a stable condition, having or suspected of having a cardiac condition or a disease requiring the electronic monitoring, recording, retrieval, and display of cardiac electrical signals. “Telemetry unit” as defined in these regulations does not include fetal monitoring nor fetal surveillance. (11) The licensed nurse-to-p …