HospitalNurse Staffing Steering Committee. The Hospital Staffing Committee will be constituted and meet in accordance with state law and ensure committee members have 30 days notice of meetings with a minimum of 7 days notice for any meeting that falls outside of the standard meeting frequency . The Chief Human Resource Officer will attend quarterly. The Nurse Staffing Steering Committee, in accordance with Article 15.4 and 6.12, is a forum for discussion and collaboration to produce an annual overall nursing staffing plan that creates a safe and effective environment for patients and staff, assures adequate nurse staffing resources to meet patient care needs and promotes professional nursing practice. Such forum will include at least three (3) staff nurses. The committee shall be scheduled to meet six (6) times per year. The dates of the meetings will be announced within the last quarter of the preceding year and posted in a mutually agreeable place which all Unit-Based Committee Chairs have visibility. This meeting shall be recorded and available to all RN’s and the Union. Decisions made and action items from the meetings will be kept and shall be available to all RNs and the union representative. For the life of this Agreement, the parties agree that the following will be agenda items for the Committee meetings during the year: Open Position Update and incentives Peak Census - Planning and Update Ancillary Staff Utilization Traveler and Agency Usage CSI Review Staffing Plan Nurse Sensitive IndicatorsOutcomes Nursing Residencies Assessment of Unit Based Staffing Committee Effectiveness Low Census review and update Strategies regarding meal and rest breaks Exit Interviews (as available) CSIs with Adverse Events indicated Retention Interviews (as available) Other agenda items may be added by mutual agreement of the parties. The Employer shall post, in a public area on each patient care unit, the nurse staffing plan and the nurse staffing schedule for that shift on that unit, as well as the relevant clinical staffing for that shift. The Hospital Staffing Committee will review the questionnaire for exit and retention interview data within one (1) month of ratification of the Agreement.
HospitalNurse Staffing Steering Committee. The HospitalA nurse Sstaffing steering cCommittee will be established and maintained in accordance with state law RCW 70.41.420. The Hospital Nurse Staffing Steering Committee will have the discretion to form Staffing Subcommittees to provide proposed solutions and action plans to address recurring staffing issues as identified by the review of CSIs by the Hospital Staffing Committee. will oversee unit-based nurse staffing committees, and The Hospital Staffing Committee will adopt a charter, as needed, with assistance from the DOH and L&I, for the unit-based nurse staffing committees that includes the following: < < The Charter will include A) process for electing cochairs and their terms; B) roles, responsibilities, and processes by which patient care staff job classes will be represented by the committee as nonvoting members, how many members will serve on the committee, processes to ensure adequate quorum and ability of committee members to attend, and process for replacing members who do not regularly attend. C) Schedule for monthly meeting with more frequent meetings as needed that ensures committee members have 30 days notice of meetings; D) processes by which all staffing complaints will be
