External Successful Candidate. Should the successful candidate for a Nurse Practitioner position be chosen from outside the existing staff, the newly hired candidate is subject to the probationary period in Article 4.17. Additionally, upon commencement of a Collaborative Practice Agreement, such Nurse Practitioner is subject to a trial period for nine hundred and ninety (990) hours worked in the new position. The Employer, with written notice to the Nurse Practitioner affected and a Labour Relations Representative of the Union, may extend the trial period for a total period of one thousand nine hundred and fifty (1950) hours worked in the position upon commencement of the Collaborative Practice Agreement.
