Extended Treatment Area Sample Clauses

Extended Treatment Area. 1. The Hospital will obtain a list of volunteers, from amongst the negotiations unit that agree to work, when necessary, in the Hospital’s Extended Treatment Area (“ETA”). 2. When it is necessary for a patient to be treated in the ETA, the Hospital will assign employees in the negotiations unit to work in the ETA as follows: a. First, from amongst those employees on the volunteer list that are working at the Hospital at that time, so long as it is operationally feasible to reassign them to the ETA at that time; and b. Second, if the ETA cannot be adequately staffed pursuant to (a) above, then management will assign other employees to the ETA in its sole discretion from amongst those working at that time, whether or not they are on the volunteer list, provided he/she has been properly trained in the donning and xxxxxxx of PPE. When this occurs, management will also contact volunteers on the volunteer list that were not working at the Hospital when the assignment became necessary, and will seek to get those volunteers in to replace the non-volunteers in the ETA as soon as practicable. 3. Effective CY-2017, the Hospital will provide training to volunteers and all nurses in the Emergency Department twice per year in donning and xxxxxxx of PPE used in the ETA. 4. If management determines that an employee must be quarantined at the Hospital as a result of the care given to a patient at the Hospital, then employee shall be entitled to compensation during the time that he or she is quarantined, up to a maximum of four (4) weeks, as follows: a. Employee shall be paid at his or her regular rate of pay for all shifts that the employee was scheduled to work; and b. Employee shall be paid at the rate of four dollars and fifty cents ($4.50) per hour for all other hours that he or she is quarantined at the Hospital not covered by (a) above.