Floating - NMC. A. Employees in the class of Staff Nurse who are regularly assigned to a specific unit shall be paid a float differential of three dollars and twelve cents ($3.12) per hour for each hour he/she is assigned to float outside of their assigned nursing cluster provided that such float exceeds a minimum of two (2) hours. Clusters for pay are defined as:
B. The RN’s responsibility when floating to new patient care unit or assigned to a new patient population:
1. Nurses will only be assigned those duties and responsibilities for which competency has been validated within the last year, as prescribed by the NMC Professional Standards Committee. Acuity and patient safety should be considered when assigning patients.
2. An RN who has demonstrated competency for the patient care unit will be responsible for planning and implementing patient care, providing clinical supervision, and coordinating the care given by LVN's and/or Nursing Assistants and unlicensed nursing personnel.
Floating - NMC. A. Employees in the class of Staff Nurse who are regularly assigned to a specific unit shall be paid a float differential of three dollars and twelve cents ($3.12) per hour for each hour he/she is assigned to float outside of their assigned nursing cluster provided that such float exceeds a minimum of two (2) hours. When an Intensive Care Unit nurse floats to the Emergency Department, the Intensive Care Unit nurse will receive a float differential of three dollars and twelve cents ($3.12) per hour. The Intensive Care Unit nurse floating to the Emergency Department differential will sunset on January 31, 2017, which is the expiration of this agreement. Clusters for pay are defined as: Labor & Delivery (L&D), Maternal Infant Unit (MIU), Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Nursery, Pediatrics Medical Surgical (includes Intermediate Care), Acute Rehabilitation Unit (ARU*), Intensive Care Unit (ICU) *ARU staff will not care for telemetry patients Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Emergency Room (ER) Operating Room, Outpatient Post Surgery Services (OPSS), PACU, Interventional Radiology Mental Health, Acute Rehabilitation Unit (ARU) Employees assigned to Operating Room, Outpatient Surgery and Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) are closed units that do not float and are not eligible for float pay.
B. The RN’s responsibility when floating to new patient care unit or assigned to a new patient population: Nurses will only be assigned those duties and responsibilities for which competency has been validated within the last year, as prescribed by the NMC Professional Standards Committee. Acuity and patient safety should be considered when assigning patients. An RN who has demonstrated competency for the patient care unit will be responsible for planning and implementing patient care, providing clinical supervision, and coordinating the care given by LVN's and/or Nursing Assistants and unlicensed nursing personnel. RN's who have not completed the competency validation for the unit cannot be assigned total responsibility for patient care, including duties and responsibilities for planning and implementing patient care and providing clinical supervision and coordination of care given by LVN's and/or Nursing Assistants and unlicensed nursing personnel, until all standards for competencies for that unit have been met. The RN shall be required to accept a limited assignment of nursing care duties which utilizes his/her currently validated clinical competence. ARU staff will not be ...
