Common use of UBNPC involvement Clause in Contracts

UBNPC involvement. Each department’s Unit Based Nursing Practice Committee will be permitted the opportunity to provide recommendations in the following areas in the development and implementation of unit specific scheduling practices: a. Identifying a deadline for submitting requests for time off (with the exception of vacations) before/after the schedule is posted; b. The distribution of open/available shifts, selecting the most cost effective staffing option(s) available; c. The methodology for completing the schedule (e.g., a single individual responsibility, each shift is responsible for their own); d. An assessment, in conjunction with its review of the Staffing Plan, of the [minimum] optimum projected number of staff needed to cover the unit or department, sick time [leave] usage, staffing alternatives such as self- scheduling and more full-time, part-time and/or resource positions, and on-call scheduling and utilization; e. The mechanism used by staff for trading shifts after the schedule is posted; f. Staffing and scheduling options, including those which may [decrease] change the pattern of scheduled shifts and/or change the number of weekend shifts staff would need to work; and g. Problem-solving of scheduling issues. h. The assignment of holidays noted in Section 9.3.3 in compliance with Sections 7.2.2 and 24.1.c. In establishing this practice the UBNPC shall take all constituent opinion into consideration.

UBNPC involvement. Each department’s Unit Based Nursing Practice Committee will be permitted the opportunity to provide recommendations in the following areas in the development and implementation of unit specific scheduling practices: a. Identifying a deadline for submitting requests for time off (with the exception of vacations) before/after the schedule is posted; b. The distribution of open/available shifts, selecting the most cost effective staffing option(s) available; c. The methodology for completing the schedule (e.g., a single individual responsibility, each shift is responsible for their own); d. An assessment, in conjunction with its review of the Staffing Plan, of the [minimum] optimum projected number of staff needed to cover the unit or department, sick time [leave] usage, staffing alternatives such as self- scheduling and more full-time, part-time and/or resource positions, and on-call scheduling and utilization; e. The mechanism used by staff for trading shifts after the schedule is posted; f. Staffing and scheduling options, including those which may [decrease] change the pattern of scheduled shifts and/or change the number of weekend shifts staff would need to work; [and] g. Problem-solving of scheduling issues.; and h. The assignment of holidays noted in Section 9.3.3 in compliance with Sections 7.2.2 and 24.1.c. In establishing this practice the UBNPC shall take all constituent opinion into consideration.