FLOATING, NON-NURSING DUTIES AND STAFFING Sample Clauses

FLOATING, NON-NURSING DUTIES AND STAFFING. 9.1 Floating. The float pools and per diem nurses will serve as the primary resource for meeting floating needs. Nurses will not be routinely floated outside of their unit, however, in order to meet patient care needs or emergent conditions or in times of low census, Patient Care Services Administration may designate a floating assignment where the nurse has been cross-trained. Nurses who float will be adequately oriented and will function within the job expectations of their regular position. The Unit Based Committees may look at creative ways to develop a process for cross training and orientation. Nurses who have been floated for at least 50% of their full shift three (3) times in a calendar month, may thereafter give notice of her/his desire to be called off before being given a floating assignment again that month. Upon reassignment, the nurse shall receive adequate orientation to the unit. The supervisor or manager, in consultation with designated unit preceptors and staff nurses regularly assigned to the unit, will develop unit-specific orientation tools to be used by staff nurses floated to the unit. Nurses will be expected to perform all basic nursing functions but will not be required to perform tasks or procedures for which they are not qualified or trained to perform. If during the floating assignment a nurse is asked to perform a task or procedure for which the nurse does not feel qualified or trained to perform or is otherwise unable to provide the appropriate care for the patient, the nurse should immediately discuss the matter with the charge nurse or manager or if the situation continues, the house supervisor should be paged immediately. Resident nurses (as defined in Article 6.1.2) shall not float during the first six (6) months of their employment. Patient Care Services Administration will adjust staffing ratios to reflect the altered skill mix assigned. Efforts shall be made to return a floated nurse to the nurse’s regularly assigned unit rather than replace the nurse with another float. Floating will not routinely cause another nurse to be floated out of her/his unit. When patients are placed on units that would not normally be the placement for their diagnosis, then nurses assigned to these patients will have a resource Nurse available for consultation and will be adequately oriented to the unit prior to providing the patient care. No nurse will be requested to perform tasks or procedures for which he/she is not qualified by reason of...
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