Transfers & Position Vacancies — Lucile Packard Children's Hospital RNs

2019 A. Purpose. The purpose of this Side Letter is to provide eligible Nurses the opportunity to move to a Relief B position temporarily to allow them to pursue a BSN or MSN degree while continuing to work at the Employer. B. Eligibility and Qualifications. All 0.8 time or more Regular Nurses with five (5) or more years of continuous service with the Employer and who are enrolled in an accredited educational program culminating in a BSN or MSN degree are eligible to request a temporary Relief B position and to apply for a posted temporary Relief B position under this Side Letter. C. Number of Temporary Relief Positions. In each unit with at least ten (10) Regular Nurses, one temporary Relief Nurse position will be made available under this Side Letter, with one (1) additional temporary Relief Nurse position made available for every seventy-five (75) Regular Nurses who are regularly assi …

LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -54- (including available hours arising from relocating hours from one shift to another), and an available Relief position. A position or hours shall not be deemed to be “available” until approved by the Employer. Hours worked over a Nurse’s commitment would not be deemed a “vacancy” under this section. 22.3 Eligible Regular and Relief Nurses who make a transfer request are given preference if qualified, as determined by the Employer, for vacancies in the following order and manner: 22.3.1 Nurses who both (i) are assigned to the unit in which the vacancy occurs as of the date of the notice of the vacancy, and (ii) notify their manager (or designee) of their interest in the vacancy within the five (5) day period after notice is provided, shall be given preference over other Nurses. As between qualified applicants assigned to the unit in which the vaca …

23.1 Voluntary Requested Reduction in Scheduled Commitment. Any Regular Nurse may submit a request in writing to their Nurse Manager requesting a voluntary reduction in schedule commitment. The Nurse Manager will consider the request and will respond in writing to the Nurse within thirty (30) calendar days of the submission of the request. When the Nurse Manager determines in their discretion that a reduction in schedule commitment may be appropriate, the reduced commitment position shall be posted pursuant to the Internal Transfers procedures contained in Section 22 of the Agreement. The parties recognize that, even when the Nurse Manager agrees to post a reduced commitment position, the Nurse who obtains the position may not be the Nurse whose request prompted the posting of the reduced commitment position. 23.2 Vacant part time positions that the Employer decides in its discretion to …

CRONA recognizes that the Employer announces job vacancies, recruits and hires in accordance with general procedures established by the Employer. To assist Nurses applying for transfer to Nurse vacancies established by the Employer, the following procedures shall be applicable to both Regular and Relief Nurses: 22.1 The Employer shall post all current lists of Nurse vacancies in the following order and manner: 22.1.1 The Hospital shall send an email (via Outlook or a similar hospital-wide email system) identifying the vacancy to the Nurses on the unit in which the vacancy exists. 22.1.2 At least five (5) calendar days after the foregoing notice has been sent and if the vacancy has not been filled with a Nurse on the unit, the Hospital shall post the vacancy on the online application system. The posting on the online application system shall contain at least the following information abou …

LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -7- 6.1.3 The Employer will place newly hired Regular Clinical Nurses with six (6) months or less experience at the Clinical Nurse I level. Newly hired Regular Clinical Nurses with more than six (6) months experience will be placed as a Clinical Nurse II at the appropriate step based upon the Employer’s assessment of the Nurse’s experience, at its sole discretion, provided that: a. Experience must be within the past two (2) years. b. Experience must be applicable to the unit or area(s) in which the Clinical Nurse is hired, as determined by the Patient Care Manager. 6.1.4 After completion of not more than three (3) months of employment, the Employer will give the Regular Clinical Nurse an informal, interim evaluation. If the Clinical Nurse is having difficulty in meeting expectations during this three (3) month period, the evaluation will be in writin …

LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -61- performance where they are considered unsatisfactory. Supervision shall then seek to work out a written plan with the Nurse, aimed at eliminating the performance problems and specifying what sort of improvement will be expected of them over the term of a defined probationary period not to exceed sixty (60) days in length, if supervision determines that a probationary period would be useful. The CRONA Nurse Advocate or a CRONA officer or officers designated by CRONA as the representative for the purposes of this paragraph will be notified when supervision determines that a Nurse may be placed on probation and at the Nurse’s request may be present at the meeting to discuss the probation. CRONA will inform the Employer in writing of the CRONA officers so designated within thirty (30) working days after execution of this agreement and thereafter wit …

LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -100- H. Documentation. A Nurse granted a temporary Relief position under this Side Letter will provide documentation of enrollment in the accredited educational program each academic term to the Employer. I. End of Temporary Relief Nurse Position. The term of a temporary Relief position under this Side Letter shall last so long as the Nurse is enrolled in the degree program, for up to a maximum of two years. When the term of the temporary Relief position ends, the Nurse, referred to as a “returning Nurse” for purposes of this Side Letter, shall have up to three (3) additional months in the Relief position to obtain a vacant permanent position. A returning Nurse who has not obtained a permanent position by the end of the three (3) months shall be separated from employment.

Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and CRONA have agreed as follows: The parties agree that a Nurse who voluntarily agrees to work in a “weekends only” or “weekends preferred” position is not eligible for premium pay under Section 16.2 (titled “Guarantee of Weekends Off”) of the parties’ collective bargaining agreement. Effective no later than June 30, 2022, the job description for a Clinical Nurse position and a posting for a new “weekends only” position shall state that a Nurse who voluntarily agrees to work in a “weekends only” position is not eligible for premium pay under Section 16.2. The parties agree that Nurses may request a “weekends only” or “weekends preferred” position, and that the Hospital may post such a position. Such a position should be posted in accordance with Section 22.1.1. In conjunction with their 2025 – 2028 negotiations, the Hospital and CRONA discusse …