Floating Assignments Clause Samples

Floating Assignments. Floating is defined as:

Floating Assignments. Floating is defined as: 1) A change in home campus work unit for a shift or partial shift (see 9.2 for premium eligibility). 2) In the case of float pool employees, it is defined as the compensated flexibility of an employee who is assigned daily to various campus locations based on the staffing needs of the department(s). The Multi-Campus Float Pool and multi-campus designated positions will serve as primary resources for meeting floating needs between campuses. Provided safe and cost effective staffing alternatives are available, floating assignments will be limited to areas where staff have been oriented or cross-trained, whichever is appropriate to the area and has the appropriate basic skills for the areas to which they float. Nothing in this section shall prevent the Employer from responding to emergency situations or urgent patient care or urgent operational needs. Staff will receive orientation to the department or unit and will be assigned a resource person for guidance as needed. Orientation/training will be appropriate to the assignment and will be dependent upon the staff member’s previous experience and familiarity with the area to which such staff member is assigned. If during the floating assignment a staff member is asked to perform a task or procedure for which the staff member is not qualified, the staff member should immediately discuss the matter with the lead, charge nurse or manager. If the lead, charge nurse or manager is not available and the situation continues, the nursing supervisor should be paged immediately to address the situation. In areas where patient care is provided, staff will be expected to perform all basic patient care functions, but may not be required to perform tasks or procedures uniquely applicable to the department or unit that they are not qualified or trained to perform.

Floating Assignments. Provided safe and cost effective staffing alternatives are available, every effort will be made to limit floating assignments to areas where staff have been cross-trained or will have the appropriate basic skills for the areas to which they float. The Employer retains the

Floating Assignments. Float assignments will be made based on the competency level of the nurse. The Nurse Practice Committee shall create criteria to determine float competencies. When assigned to float, a nurse will only be assigned duties that they are competent to perform. If a nurse is floated and they have not been oriented to the physical environment, they will be oriented before beginning any work.

Floating Assignments. Nurses shall receive float assignments consistent with their skills, competencies, and the patient population to which they are oriented. If a nurse determines in his/her professional judgement that he/she is not unit competent for the float assignment, the nurse may indicate the reasons why, at the time of the assignment, to the designated individual in charge of the unit to which the nurse has been assigned to float, in an attempt to mutually agree on an accommodation. Floating assignments shall be made in the following order:

Floating Assignments. 9 At the beginning of the shift, upon shift assignment, floating will be assigned to

Floating Assignments. 2 At the beginning of the shift, upon shift assignment, floating will be assigned 3 to qualified Clinical Float nurses first, and then to qualified volunteers and 4 then as determined in unit specific rotation. Nurses will not be floated by the 5 Hospital to cover a nurse in another unit who voluntarily requested to be 6 placed on call unless the volunteering nurse has obtained the agreement of 7 the nurse to be floated. The designated resource nurse and/or specialty 8 trained nurse (independent pediatric, chemotherapy, or labor nurse, etc.) 9 may be by-passed for floating turn to maintain optimal patient care in a 10 department. 11

Floating Assignments. Floating is defined as: 1. A change in home campus work unit for a shift or partial shift 2. In the case of float pool employees, it is defined as the compensated flexibility of an employee who is assigned daily to various units/departments based on the staffing needs of the campus. The float pools on each campus will serve as primary resources for meeting floating needs within a campus. The Employer retains the right to float employees on a shift by shift basis to meet patient care and departmental needs. Floating is defined as the reassignment of an employee to work their scheduled shift on a unit or work other than the unit or work area to which the employee is scheduled. Provided safe and cost effective staffing alternatives are available, Floating assignments will normally be confined to areas where the employee has been adequately cross trained unless the employee and manager agree otherwise. Employees who float will be adequately oriented and have the appropriate basic skills for the units to which they float. Managers will proactively schedule orientation/training of staff prior to floating staff. Employees will be expected to perform all basic functions of their classifications but will not be required to perform tasks or procedures specifically applicable to the work unit for which they are not qualified or trained to perform. The employer will endeavor to minimize floating to multiple units during a shift when reasonably feasible, when unit-based staff are floated more than once during their shift and to more than two units during a shift it will be tracked on a staffing variance form and reviewed by the staffing committee.

Floating Assignments. 20 At the beginning of the shift, upon shift assignment, floating will be assigned 21 to qualified non-bargaining unit nurses (e.g., agency, traveler, contract) 22 whose contract allows for floating, first, and then to qualified float pool 23 nurses, and then to qualified volunteers, and then as determined in unit 24 specific rotation. Nurses will not be floated by the Hospital to cover a nurse in 25 another unit who voluntarily requested to be placed on call unless the 26 volunteering nurse has obtained the agreement of the nurse to be floated. 27 The designated resource nurse and/or specialty trained nurse (independent 28 pediatric, chemotherapy, or labor nurse, etc.) may be by-passed for floating 29 turn to maintain optimal patient care in a department.