Helper-Float RN Sample Clauses

Helper-Float RN. A nurse who has received a basic orientation to a unit in which the nurse is not regularly scheduled to work, and is capable of providing assistance to that unit’s regularly scheduled staff by performing basic RN competency skills. Helper-float RNs are expected to be capable of assisting with procedures that they have successfully completed in annual skills competency checklist(s) for the unit(s) in which they are regularly scheduled. However, helper-float RNs will not be required to perform tasks specifically applicable to a receiving unit for which they are not qualified or trained to perform. While reassigned to a receiving unit, depending upon the helper float RN’s skills and ability, and patient census and acuity, helper-float RNs may (or may not) be assigned patients, and may (or may not) have decreased flexibility with regard to patient assignments or need to be assigned resource persons. It shall be the responsibility of a helper-float RN to inform the receiving unit’s Charge Nurse of any task or patient assignment for which such nurse feels inadequately prepared. If the issue is not resolved, the helper-float RN must contact the House Supervisor and/or the receiving unit’s manager. The House Supervisor in collaboration with the affected Charge Nurses will assign a helper float RN to a receiving unit. Unit managers, in consultation with staff nurses regularly scheduled in the unit, will also develop specific orientation tools (including but not limited to, examples of charting, unit-specific orders and protocols, Standards of Care, and assignments of a resource person) to be used with helper-float RNs floated to their unit. Orientation may vary depending on the helper-float RNs’ previous experience and familiarity with the receiving unit to which the nurse has been reassigned.