Geographic Locations - New Worksites. The Employer will notify the Union of its intention to establish new geographic locations that will be worksites for bargaining unit members. At that time, the Union and Employer will meet to determine how these geographic locations fit into comparable geographic areas in Article 13.7.8.d. 14.1 Nursing Practice Committees (NPC). Nursing Practice Committees (NPCs) shall be instituted and maintained at KFHPWA. NPCs shall consist of Inpatient, Primary Care, Consultative Specialty, Care Management, and Home Health and Hospice Services. The purposes of these NPCs will be to: (1) assess and make recommendations to Administration on broad-based productivity, workload, patient acuity systems, or other issues such as scheduling practices and innovative staffing patterns that may impact or contribute to an improved work environment and patient care delivery, and, in recognition of the mutual desire of the parties to maintain staffing consistent with quality patient care and good working conditions, (2) serve as a resource for problem-solving and development of alternatives when chronic facility or unit-wide staffing problems have not been adequately addressed after reasonable efforts between staff and management at the facility or unit level. Employees are responsible for first bringing such concerns to their manager in a timely manner for purposes of mutual discussion and problem solving.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
