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Preceptor Duties & Recognition — Lucile Packard Children's Hospital RNs
What the CRONA agreement (Apr 2025 – Mar 2028) actually says, excerpted from the contract with page citations.
LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -15- overtime hours worked the previous day. A Nurse who is scheduled for and works a twelve (12) hour shift who is requested to work prior to the normal start time of their assigned shift will be paid at double time for all early hours worked. 7.9 Holiday Premium. Nurses required to work on any of the following holidays will be paid 1 1/2 times the regular hourly rate of pay including any applicable shift differential for all time worked: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King’s Birthday, Memorial Day (last Monday in May), Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, the Friday after Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. In addition to the 1 1/2 times pay, the Regular Nurse may claim eight (8) hours of accrued PTO to be paid at the hourly base wage rate plus shift differential if applicable in accordance with Section 7.5.6. 7.10 Staff and Committee Mee …
LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -16- 7.11.4 The length of a formalized training program and the amount of formalized training shall be determined by the Employer. 7.11.5 The decision of a Nurse to become eligible for Preceptor assignments is voluntary. A Nurse who has volunteered to act as a Preceptor shall receive education and training for the role, complete an initial competency validation and thereafter may be assigned Preceptor duties so long as the Nurse’s competency is current. 7.11.6 The Employer shall provide a Nurse the opportunity to complete a Preceptor Training Program prior to serving as a Preceptor. The Employer will pay Nurses for the time spent and expenses incurred in participating in the Preceptor Training Program and will use best efforts to provide Nurses an opportunity to participate in the Preceptor Training Program within the Nurse’s regular commitment. 7.11 …
14.1 Summary of Responsibilities. The purpose of Relief Staff is to provide additional staff to supplement regular staff for census and acuity fluctuations, or for regular staffing fluctuations, so that quality patient care can be maintained. The Relief Nurse may be designated to act as Charge Nurse and is responsible for the delivery of coordinated nursing care for a patient or a group of patients within a specified patient care unit. The Relief Nurse is expected to perform according to the assigned unit’s Clinical Performance Criteria for Nurses. 14.2 New Hires. All newly hired Relief Nurses will serve a trial period. After completion of no more than three (3) months of employment, the Employer will give the Relief Nurse an evaluation in writing if they are having difficulty in meeting expectations. This provision does not limit in any way the right of the Employer to terminate a Relie …
LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -21- after the thirty-one (31) day period, a statement of Physical Condition Form is required and must be approved by the insurance company. If approved, coverage begins on the date determined by the insurance company and appropriate payroll deductions will be made. 8.10 Supplemental Short Term Disability Insurance. Regular Nurses and eligible Relief Nurses as specified in Section 14 are eligible to purchase supplemental short term disability insurance within 31 days of hire. The short term disability plan pays sixty (60%) percent of the pre-disability base wage rate to a maximum weekly benefit of $1,846 less disability payments from any state- mandated disability plan and Social Security, less any other employment earnings. Effective January 1, 2023, the maximum weekly benefit shall be increased to $3,000, subject to the same terms and conditions as …
LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -25- d. PTO or an absent day may be offered to and accepted by a Regular Nurse if such Nurse is extra on their respective unit and cannot in the determination of the Employer be utilized elsewhere to meet a staffing need. e. In units where there is prolonged low census, those Regular Nurses who have depleted their PTO will be eligible, depending on operational needs, for up to two weeks of vacation annually without pay. CRONA and Nursing Administration will mutually agree on the definition of a period of prolonged low census. f. PTO shall be granted to Regular Nurses having Herpes who are assigned to specialty units (Delivery Room, Nurseries), and cannot be utilized in other areas of the Employer. g. Nurses not allowed to work because of on-the-job exposure to a communicable disease are entitled to be compensated under the terms of the workers’ compe …
LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -5- 5.3.2 No dues checkoff authorization shall be effective until thirty (30) days after CRONA has filed with the Employer’s Human Resources Department the certification which is signed and dated by CRONA’s President and Treasurer and states the amount of pay period dues uniformly required as a condition of membership. No service fee authorization shall be effective until thirty (30) days after CRONA has filed with the Employer’s Human Resources Department the certification which is signed and dated by CRONA’s President and Treasurer and states the amount of pay period service fee for administration of this Agreement. The certification previously filed shall be effective for the duration of this Agreement, unless CRONA files a new certification with the Employer at least thirty (30) calendar days in advance of a change in pay period dues or service f …
LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -22- New eligible Nurses are given the opportunity to enroll during orientation. A Regular Nurse electing not to participate at that time may enroll for coverage, to be effective the first day of any month, by submitting the application during the previous month. 8.13 Malpractice and General Liability Insurance. The Employer pays the total cost of a group General Liability insurance policy which automatically covers all Nurses who are acting within the scope of their professional duties. 8.14 Legal Care Plan. Eligible Nurses may purchase a legal care plan through appropriate payroll deduction. 8.15 Flexible Spending and Health Savings Account Programs. The Employer will provide the opportunity for Regular Nurses and “C” Relief Nurses to use pre-tax earnings for payment of health care premiums and to place pre-tax earnings into the following reimburse …
41.1 The Employer and CRONA recognize that the overriding principle governing the introduction and use of new technologies, including but not limited to Generative Artificial Intelligence,
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