Float Unit Calculation. The Float Unit will be considered a separate nursing unit with its own percentage rotation system for low census staffing. A Float Unit nurse shall not displace another nurse from those shifts that the nurse is scheduled to work to fulfill the nurse’s personal master schedule. However, Float Unit nurses will work before a nurse who could be floated to another unit. Nurses scheduled above their personal master schedule shall be cancelled or placed on standby status prior to Float Unit nurses working their personal master schedule. If a Float Unit nurse and a nurse scheduled in a unit where the float nurse is qualified to work are both scheduled above their personal master schedule, seniority shall be utilized for assignment. Standby and low census cancellation shall be assigned to a qualified scheduled Float Unit nurse prior to a full-time, part-time, or short-hour nurse from another nursing unit, except when a Float Unit nurse’s percentage of time worked is below seventy-five percent (75%). When this occurs, the Float Unit nurse will have the option of working in place of a nurse with a higher percentage scheduled in a unit on which the Float Unit nurse routinely works, providing the nurse being displaced has a percentage higher than that of the Float Unit nurse. If more than one nurse in the unit(s) on which the Float Unit nurse routinely works has a higher percentage than the Float Unit nurse, the Float Unit nurse must displace the nurse with the highest percentage. A Float Unit nurse who displaces a scheduled nurse in this manner will assume the work schedule of the nurse they are displacing. For purposes of mid-shift cancellation or standby only: once a Float Unit nurse has been assigned to a nursing unit that unit becomes the nurse’s home unit and the nurse’s percentage or seniority is compared to these nurses.
Float Unit Calculation. The Float Unit will be considered a separate 20 nursing unit with its own percentage rotation system for low census 21 staffing. A Float Unit nurse shall not displace another nurse from those 22 shifts that the nurse is scheduled to work to fulfill the nurse’s personal 23 master schedule. However, Float Unit nurses will work before a nurse 24 who could be floated to another unit. 25 26 Nurses scheduled above their personal master schedule shall be 27 cancelled or placed on standby status prior to Float Unit nurses 28 working their personal master schedule. 29
