Preceptor Duties & Recognition — 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 …

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 …

Each year as a Staff Nurse III/PCCCM III works in an “RN expanded role” or as an active preceptor for a minimum of one hundred twenty (120) hours or actively mentored two new graduate RNs for six (6) months each or one (1) new graduate RN for twelve (12) months. In the event there is no opportunity to act as a preceptor or mentor, completion of a special project to be agreed upon with the Nurse Manager.

A Nurse Practitioner II or III who voluntarily agrees and is so designated by the Employer to provide orientation and support to a NP I or NP II during the first six (6) months of service for the Employer as a newly hired Nurse Practitioner. The Employer will make such assignments on a rotational basis by seniority from NPs who have volunteered to be mentors. The Employer will encourage Nurse Practitioners to volunteer as mentors, and will not unreasonably deny the request of a Nurse Practitioner to mentor a newly hired NP or a NP transitioning to a new clinical specialty.

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 …

As a general practice newly hired Nurses will not be counted in the regular staffing complement during orientation or portions thereof as designated in advance by the Employer; and when being precepted will share a single assignment with their preceptor, provided, however, that the Employer shall determine the duration and scope of orientation to be given based upon the Nurse's prior experience and/or training. Exceptions to this general practice may occur, provided that such exceptions shall not be unreasonably made. Within ninety (90) days of ratification of this Agreement, each facility shall, upon request, make available for review by the California Nurses Association its orientation practices relative to newly hired Nurses, and subsequently if the facility changes these practices.

The intent of a Nurse Practitioner Mentoring Program is to make the newly hired Nurse Practitioner sufficiently familiar with the Kaiser system and to have achieved a level of competency in the new role. The expectation at the end of the mentoring period is that s/he is able to fully function as a member of the health care team. When no NP II or NP III is available to mentor, a physician or other appropriate clinician mentor shall be designated.

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 …