Break Relief Nurses Sample Clauses

Break Relief Nurses. 29 Effective within 60 days of ratification, the Hospital will commit to assigning to each unit 30 or cluster, as defined below, a Break Relief Nurse for the purposes of rest and meal 31 breaks. Break Relief Nurses will relieve nurses with permanent patient assignments for 32 rest and meal breaks. Break Relief nurses will not have permanent patient assignments. 33 Units are defined as: 34 Med Surg/ICU/STEPS 35 ED 36 Surgery/ENDO 1 Short Stay/PACU 2 Family Birth Unit 4 Hospital agrees to work on level loading in Med Surg, PACU/Short Stay, and Surgery for 5 the purpose of breaks. Break coverage in all units will be assessed quarterly in Labor 6 Management meetings.

Break Relief Nurses. The Employer agrees to post and make reasonable efforts to hire twelve

Break Relief Nurses. A Break Relief Nurse is a registered nurse who is temporarily assigned the role of relieving employees from their patient assignments for their rest breaks and/or meal period. The Break Relief Nurse shall not receive a permanent patient assignment or be assigned to a concurrent role except in emergent situations. Employer will make a good faith effort to assign an adequate number of nurses to provide break relief. This Article does not apply to clinics or EvergreenHealth Home Care Services but does apply to the Hospice Care Center.

Break Relief Nurses. The Hospital commits to assigning to each unit or cluster, 5 as defined below, a Break Relief Nurse for the purposes of rest and meal breaks.

Break Relief Nurses. Break Nurses will not be included in the Staffing Matrix, and will not be low censused unless the hospital census indicates a change in needs due to exceptional circumstances, such as a unit closing, or less than fifty per cent (50%) census on the unit to which the break nurse has been assigned.

Break Relief Nurses. The Employer agrees to post and make reasonable efforts to hire twelve (12) additional .9 FTE positions 21 calendar days following ratification in the Float Pool who shall be assigned primarily to providing meal period and rest breaks for all shifts. The number and function of break relief nurse positions shall be reviewed annually by the unit committees prior to presentation to HSC and shall be presented to HSC prior to HSC finalizing staffing plan requests. Given the specialized training needed in closed units, the Hospital Staffing Committee will discuss and create, if needed, an implementation for break relief nurses in closed units.

Break Relief Nurses. The Hospital commits to assigning to each unit or cluster, as defined below, a Break Relief Nurse for the purposes of rest and meal breaks. Break Relief Nurses will relieve RNs with permanent patient assignments for rest and meal breaks. Break Relief Nurses will not have permanent patient assignments. Units are defined as: • Critical Care • Medical/Surgical • Emergency Department • Women’s and Children’s Center • Geriatric Psychiatry Hospital agrees to work on level loading in the PACU, Day Surgery, Outpatient Surgery, Operating Room, Endoscopy, and Cath Lab for the purpose of breaks. Break coverage in these units will be assessed quarterly in Labor Management meetings. Nurses who are assigned to work as Break Relief Nurse will receive $3.00 per hour for that work in addition to the appropriate rate set forth in paragraph A above. A. In contrast to the more traditional approaches of vacation, holiday, and sick leave, Hospital combines the total of nurse time off into two banks: paid leave hours (“PLH”) and extended illness hours (“EIH”). Nurses may use PLHpaid leave hours (“PLH”) for a variety of purposes, such as short-term personal illness, family emergencies/illness, vacation, holidays, religious observances, preventive health and dental care, and other excused absences. Some employees may also have a legacy bank of extended illness hours (“Legacy EIH”) that can be used but are not subject to additional accrual. The Legacy EIH bank is considered short-term disability coverage providing financial protection for extended illnesses or disabilities that last for more than five calendar days or starting with the first day of Hospitalization. (This includes ambulatory surgery procedures in a surgery center or Hospital or other verifiable medical/dental surgical procedures necessitating time away from work.) EIH may be taken in one-hour increments. Up to forty (40) hours of PLH accrued each calendar year or previously accrued EIH may also be used for any purpose covered by Oregon Sick Leave law including reasons covered by Oregon Family Medical Leave, Oregon’s domestic violence and stalking law, and for public health reasons. The first 40 hours of PLH and Legacy EIH used per calendar year for a reason covered by Oregon Sick Leave will be counted as Oregon Sick Leave.

Break Relief Nurses. 5 Effective within 60 days of ratification, the Hospital will commit to assigning to each unit 6 or cluster, as defined below, a Break Relief Nurse for the purposes of rest and meal 7 breaks. Break Relief Nurses will relieve nurses with permanent patient assignments for 8 rest and meal breaks. Break Relief nurses will not have permanent patient assignments. 9 Units are defined as: 10 Med Surg/ICU/STEPS 11 ED 12 Surgery/ENDO 13 Short Stay/PACU 14 Family Birth Unit 16 Hospital agrees to work on level loading in Med Surg, PACU/Short Stay, and Surgery for 17 the purpose of breaks. Break coverage in all units will be assessed quarterly in Labor 18 Management meetings. 19 Any nurse performing the role of Break Relief Nurse shall receive a three dollar ($3.00) 20 per hour differential over the base wages.

Break Relief Nurses. The Medical Center is responsible for providing rest 17 and meal periods to Registered Nurses (including lactation accommodations) 18 consistent with applicable state law; it is the nurse’s responsibility to take 19 them when offered or to escalate their inability to take them to their charge 20 nurse. 21 1. A nurse providing rest and meal coverage must have the unit 22 competencies to provide care and is responsible for assuming care for 23 a nurse’s patient assignment so that nurse can take uninterrupted rest 24 periods and meal periods. A nurse providing rest and meal coverage 25 who has a task for which the nurse may not be comfortable performing 26 or may need assistance to complete shall escalate to the unit charge 27 nurse to obtain necessary assistance. 28