Common use of Floating Clause in Contracts

Floating. (A) The University will make its best efforts to minimize floating within the term of this contract. In the event that it becomes necessary for an employee to be assigned, on a shift-by-shift basis, to another unit, nursing management shall ensure that patient care assignments shall be within the educational and skill level of the assigned/floated nurse. The University shall utilize the following guidelines when floating/assigning nurses: 1. Float pool employees shall be assigned prior to the floating of other full-time or part-time bargaining unit members. 2. Volunteers shall be sought. 3. Agency personnel assigned. 4. Per diem, then overtime staff will be assigned. 5. Finally, the University may assign employees on a rotation basis, with the least senior employee floating first. The University will use its best efforts to assure that the floating of staff will be done on an equitable basis. To do so, the University will assign an employee during his/her orientation period, e.g. new hire, new program implementation/equipment introduction, in such manner as to enable the employee to acquire the necessary experience and training to assure safe practice when he/she is floated. No employee will be given an assignment for which she/he has not been adequately trained, or which would cause the employee to violate the Rules and Regulations of the New Jersey Board of Nursing Practice Act. During the term of this contract, the University will use its best efforts to minimize floating on an interim basis during the work shift. Daily floating will be reviewed on a quarterly basis. If a full-time and/or part-time staff nurse has been floated more than five (5) shifts during the previous quarter, the floated nurse will receive a differential of three dollars ($3.00) per hour for all additional hours floated. A differential of three dollars ($3.00) per hour will be paid to a full-time and/or part-time employee who is assigned to a different “float section” on a temporary shift-by-shift basis. However, said float assignment shall not be counted when determining the employee’s eligibility to receive the three dollar ($3.00) per hour differential for being floated more than five (5) shifts in a quarter set forth in the paragraph above. In Newark (Sections 1 through 11) 1. EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT/TAA/FLIGHT NURSES/EMS NURSES

Floating. (A) The University Hospital will make its best efforts to minimize floating within the term of this contract. In the event that it becomes necessary for an employee to be assigned, on a shift-by-by- shift basis, to another unit, nursing management shall ensure that patient care assignments shall be within the educational and skill level of the assigned/floated nurse. The University Hospital shall utilize the following guidelines when floating/assigning nurses: 1. Float pool employees shall be assigned prior to the floating of other full-full- time or part-time bargaining negotiations unit members. 2. Volunteers shall be sought. 3. Agency personnel assigned. 4. Per diem, then overtime staff will be assigned. 5. Finally, the University Hospital may assign employees on a rotation basis, with the least senior employee floating first. The University Hospital will use its best efforts to assure that the floating of staff will be done on an equitable basis. To do so, the University Hospital will assign an employee during his/her orientation period, e.g. new hire, new program implementation/equipment introduction, in such manner as to enable the employee to acquire the necessary experience and training to assure safe practice when he/she is floated. No employee will be given an assignment for which she/he has not been adequately trained, or which would cause the employee to violate the Rules and Regulations of the New Jersey Board of Nursing Practice Act. During the term of this contract, the University will use its best efforts to minimize floating on an interim basis during the work shift. Daily floating will be reviewed on a quarterly basis. If a full-time and/or part-time staff nurse has been floated within Float Section more than five (5) shifts during the previous quarter, the floated nurse will receive a differential of three dollars ($3.00) per hour for all additional hours floated. A differential of three dollars ($3.00) per hour will be paid to a full-time and/or part-part- time employee who is assigned to a different unit outside of their “float section” on a temporary shift-by-shift basis. However, said float assignment shall not be counted when determining the employee’s eligibility to receive the three dollar ($3.00) per hour differential for being floated more than five (5) shifts in a quarter set forth in the paragraph above. In Newark (Sections 1 through 11) . 1. EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT/TAA/DEPARTMENT/ FLIGHT NURSES/EMS NURSESNURSES 2. RADIOLOGY/NEURO INTERVENTIONAL, CARDIAC CATH LAB, ANGIOGRAPHY 3. I-YELLOW 1, I-YELLOW 2, PROGRESSIVE CARE UNITS (PCU) (with the exception of Pediatric Step-Down), CARDIAC CATH LAB, CTICU, SICU, NICU, FLIGHT NURSES 4. OR, SAME DAY SURGERY (UH & DOC), SPECIAL PROCEDURES, E-YELLOW, PACU

Floating. (A) The University Hospital will make its best efforts to minimize floating within the term of this contract. In the event that it becomes necessary for an employee to be assigned, on a shift-by-by- shift basis, to another unit, nursing management shall ensure that patient care assignments shall be within the educational and skill level of the assigned/floated nurse. The University Hospital shall utilize the following guidelines when floating/assigning nurses: 1. Float pool employees shall be assigned prior to the floating of other full-full- time or part-time bargaining unit members. 2. Volunteers shall be sought. 3. Agency personnel assigned. 4. Per diem, then overtime staff will be assigned. 5. Finally, the University Hospital may assign employees on a rotation basis, with the least senior employee floating first. The University Hospital will use its best efforts to assure that the floating of staff will be done on an equitable basis. To do so, the University Hospital will assign an employee during his/her orientation period, e.g. new hire, new program implementation/equipment introduction, in such manner as to enable the employee to acquire the necessary experience and training to assure safe practice when he/she is floated. No employee will be given an assignment for which she/he has not been adequately trained, or which would cause the employee to violate the Rules and Regulations of the New Jersey Board of Nursing Practice Act. During the term of this contract, the University will use its best efforts to minimize floating on an interim basis during the work shift. Daily floating will be reviewed on a quarterly basis. If a full-time and/or part-time staff nurse has been floated more than five (5) shifts during the previous quarter, the floated nurse will receive a differential of three dollars ($3.00) per hour for all additional hours floated. A differential of three dollars ($3.00) per hour will be paid to a full-time and/or part-part- time employee who is assigned to a different “float section” on a temporary shift-by-by- shift basis. However, said float assignment shall not be counted when determining the employee’s eligibility to receive the three dollar ($3.00) per hour differential for being floated more than five (5) shifts in a quarter set forth in the paragraph above. In Newark (Sections 1 through 11) . 1. EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT/TAA/DEPARTMENT/ FLIGHT NURSES/EMS NURSESNURSES 2. RADIOLOGY/NEURO INTERVENTIONAL, CARDIAC CATH LAB, ANGIOGRAPHY 3. I-YELLOW 1, I-YELLOW 2, PROGRESSIVE CARE UNITS (PCU) (with the exception of Pediatric Step-Down), CARDIAC CATH LAB, CTICU, SICU, NICU, FLIGHT NURSES 4. OR, SAME DAY SURGERY (UH & DOC), SPECIAL PROCEDURES, E-YELLOW, PACU

Floating. The term floating refers to the temporary reassignment, by Seniority Group Seniority, on a daily basis of an employee from his/her regular department or unit to another department or unit on the same shift. The Employer may require employees to float, within their Seniority Groups, when the department or unit to which they are floated is understaffed or when the department or unit from which they are floated is overstaffed. Floating to a department or unit outside of an employee’s Seniority Group will be done on a voluntary basis only. The Employer will have the authority to determine who is qualified to float outside of a seniority group. The Employer shall also have the right to hire employees as “permanent floats”. The Hospital will identify any positions posted as “permanent floats” as such in the posting. Permanent floats will be a separate seniority group and may be required to float, at the manager’s discretion, to any unit in the Hospital for which they are qualified to work. Employees will not be required to float to more than one different unit during a single shift may be required to float back to their regular unit during a single shift Notwithstanding the prohibition on mandatory floating in the preceding paragraph, the Employer may require specialty nurses (AICU, CCU, ED, LDRP, Psychiatry and Pediatrics) to float outside of their seniority groups when the department or unit from which they are floated is overstaffed or temporarily closed and the department or unit to which they are floated is understaffed; provided that the following conditions are met: 1. The University Employer shall seek volunteers first; 2. If there are no volunteers, the Employer shall select the least senior employee(s) for mandatory floating. With the Employer’s permission, employees so selected may elect to take vacation time or to take leave without pay, instead of floating; 3. Floated employee(s) may not be assigned duties and tasks for which they have not been oriented and trained. When an RN is floated from one specialty unit to another (e.g. PCU to CCU) he/she will make its best efforts not be required to minimize take charge unless he/she has been fully trained to perform the required skills. If an employee is required to float, his/her regular position on his/her regular shift will not be backfilled by another employee, per diem or pool person on the day of the float. Backfilling refers to floating within an employee, then replacing them in the term of this contractunit/department from which they floated with another employee, per diem or pool person on the same day as the float. In the event that it becomes necessary for an employee one of the med/surg floors is closed (1st East, 1st West or 3rd Right), CNAs on that floor shall float to be assigned, on one of the med/surg floors that remain open if there is a shift-by-shift basis, need before being floated to another unit, nursing management shall ensure that patient care assignments shall floor in the Hospital. Permanent floats may be within the educational and skill level rotated to any unit on any other shift. Rotation of the assigned/floated nurse. The University shall utilize the following guidelines when floating/assigning nurses: 1. Float pool employees shall be assigned prior to the floating of other full-time or part-time bargaining unit members. 2. Volunteers shall be sought. 3. Agency personnel assigned. 4. Per diem, then overtime staff permanent floats will be assigned. 5. Finally, governed by the University may assign employees provisions of Section 15.5 through 15.5f; except that assignment of rotation to permanent floats on a rotation basis, with the least senior employee floating first. The University will use its best efforts to assure that the floating of staff any shift will be done rotated, by seniority, among the permanent floats on an equitable basis. To do so, the University will assign an employee during his/her orientation period, e.g. new hire, new program implementation/equipment introduction, in such manner as to enable the employee to acquire the necessary experience and training to assure safe practice when he/she is floated. No employee will be given an assignment for which she/he has not been adequately trained, or which would cause the employee to violate the Rules and Regulations of the New Jersey Board of Nursing Practice Act. During the term of this contract, the University will use its best efforts to minimize floating on an interim basis during the work that shift. Daily floating will be reviewed on a quarterly basis. If a full-time and/or part-time staff nurse has been floated more than five (5) shifts during the previous quarter, the floated nurse will receive a differential of three dollars ($3.00) per hour for all additional hours floated. A differential of three dollars ($3.00) per hour will be paid to a full-time and/or part-time employee who is assigned to a different “float section” on a temporary shift-by-shift basis. However, said float assignment shall not be counted when determining the employee’s eligibility to receive the three dollar ($3.00) per hour differential for being floated more than five (5) shifts in a quarter set forth in the paragraph above. In Newark (Sections 1 through 11) 1. EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT/TAA/FLIGHT NURSES/EMS NURSES.