Joint Staffing Committee. L14.01 Composition of the Joint Staffing Committee L14.02 Responsibilities of the Joint Staffing Committee
Joint Staffing Committee. A Joint Staffing Committee shall be established and maintained from year to year to review the staffing requirements of the secondary system.
Joint Staffing Committee. Such as the Hospital has established a Joint Staffing Committee, the primary responsibilities of the committee will be:
Joint Staffing Committee. There will be a Joint Staffing Committee consisting of three (3) nurses appointed by the Union and three (3) members of management who are registered nurses appointed by the Employer, one of whom shall be the Senior Vice President of Patient Services. The Committee will meet on a monthly basis on a mutually agreeable day. Staff nurses shall be given paid release time to attend such meetings, if necessary to ensure attendance. If a meeting is scheduled when the nurse is off duty, the nurse shall be paid for the time spent attending the meeting. The role of the Committee will be: To work to develop staffing plans using external benchmarks that are reflective of the better performing hospitals of like size and acuity. To devise and utilize a mutually agreeable process for addressing staffing issues which arise. To develop a form for nurses to use to report staffing concerns (Staffing Concern Form”) A guest of either the Union or the Employer who can contribute to the overall discussion may be invited to attend Committee meetings. If a nurse is confronted with a staffing situation which is compromising or could compromise patient care or is putting the nurse’s license at risk, the nurse will immediately notify his/her supervisor. The supervisor will investigate the situation promptly and, if the supervisor agrees with the nurse, the supervisor will take available steps to rectify the situation. If no satisfactory resolution is reached, the process for addressing staffing issues referred to above will apply and the matter will be submitted to the Committee for review at its next meeting. If it is agreed by the Union and management representatives that action should be taken, they will develop the specific action steps to be implemented. The Hospital will respond in writing to every Staffing Concern Form submitted by a nurse.
Joint Staffing Committee. (a) There shall be established a Joint Staffing Committee (the “Committee”) composed of three (3) representatives appointed by the Association and three (3) representatives appointed by the Board. The representatives of the Teachers and the Board shall each nominate one of their number as a Co-Chairperson.
(b) The terms of reference of the Committee shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
i) to review and discuss all matters related to elementary school staffing and make recommendations regarding: the staffing model; class size; workload issues; the master schedule; the implementation of new programs and initiatives; and other issues as agreed to by the parties; and
ii) to receive staffing status reports from Local School Staffing Advisory Committees (LSSAC).
Joint Staffing Committee. A Hospital-Union committee will be formed entitled, “Joint Staffing Committee.” MFH representatives shall include: CNO or designee; Clinical Educator; Patient Care Manager, Human Resource Reps. The Union representatives shall be elected as set forth below and shall include: one (1) staff RN elected by his/her peers from each nursing unit, and one (1) FMHNA Executive Board Member. Elections for the Union representatives shall be held in September and will be managed by an Executive Board member and a Manager from each unit. Elections for Joint Staffing Committee (and NCPC) shall be for two (2) year terms. The elections for the Union representatives (and for the Union Representatives on the Nurses Practice Committee) shall take place so that the Joint Staffing Committee elections shall be held in even years, and The NQPC in odd years. Initial elections shall take place within sixty (60) days upon ratification. Times and places for the Joint Staffing Committee meeting shall be mutually agreed upon. The Union shall use its best efforts to assure that only fifty percent (50%) of the Union representatives on the joint staffing committee also serve on the Nurses Quality and Practice Committee at the same time.
(1) The Union representatives on the Committee shall be paid for time spent at the Committee meetings at the applicable straight-time rate as set forth in Appendix A of the contract. Such time shall not count as “time worked” for purposes of computing overtime or for any other purpose.
(2) The Committee shall meet on a monthly basis. The Head of the Nursing Department (or his/her designee) and the Union President (or his/her designee) shall prepare an agenda for all Committee meetings, which shall determine the issues to be addressed.
(3) The Joint Staffing Committee shall promote a commitment to excellence in nursing practice by addressing issues and making recommendations to the Hospital concerning staffing, technology, training, equipment, supplies and all aspects of hospital policy affecting nurse practice. The Committee shall also identify performance improvement opportunities and quality issues to ensure delivery of excellent nursing care and review staffing forms.
(4) The CNO shall respond in writing within 30 days, except for good cause, upon receiving the recommendations from the Joint Staffing Committee.
(5) CND RN Advisory Forum shall take place under the guidelines set out in Article 19.
Joint Staffing Committee. Such as the Hospital has established a joint staffing committee, the primary responsibility of the committee will be:
a) Develop and provide oversight of an annual patient care and shift-based staffing plan, based on the needs of the patients to be used as the primary component of the staffing budget. Factors to be considered in the development of the plan should include, but are not limited to:
i. Census, including total number of patients on the unit on each shift and activity such as patient discharges, admissions, and transfers.
ii. Level of acuity/ intensity, as determined by the nursing assessment of all patients, and the nature of the care to be delivered on each shift.
iii. Skill mix required
iv. Level of experience and specialty certification or training of nursing personnel providing care.
v. The architecture and geography of the patient care unit, including but not limited to placement of patient rooms, treatment areas, nursing stations, medication preparation areas and equipment. The need for specialized or intensive equipment
vi. Staffing guidelines adopted or published by national nursing professional associations, specialty nursing associations and other professional healthcare organizations
b) Semiannual review of the staffing plan against need and known evidence – based staffing information, including nursing sensitive quality indicators collected by the Hospital. The staffing plan must not diminish other standards contained in state or federal law and rules, or the terms of an applicable collective bargaining agreement, if any between the hospital and a representative of the nursing staff.
c) Review, assessment, and response to staffing concerns presented to the Committee
d) The Joint Staffing Committee will produce the Hospital’s annual nurse staffing plan, and present it to the Hospital’s Chief Executive Officer.
e) If the staffing plan compiled by the Joint Staffing Committee is not adopted by the Hospital, the CEO shall provide a written explanation of the reasons why to the Committee at the next scheduled Joint Staffing Committee meeting.
f) The hospital 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 the shift. The staffing plan and current staffing levels must also be made available to patients and visitors upon request.
g) Collect and report nurse sensitive quality outcome data a recommended by th...
Joint Staffing Committee. A Joint Staffing Committee shall be established and maintained from year to year to review the staffing requirements of the secondary system. The Joint Committee shall be comprised of up to three (3) representatives appointed by the Employer and up to three (3) representatives appointed by the Bargaining Unit. Staffing Committee shall examine prior to April the total complement of secondary system teaching personnel needed for the following school year based on pupil projection numbers, course selection data, Article Staffing and Workload, Article Transfer, Surplus, Redundancy and Recall, and any other parameters as established by the Joint Staffing Committee. The Joint Staffing Committee shall liaise, as it deems appropriate, with Staffing Committees, keeping them informed of its deliberations and calculations, and shall meet with representativesof one or all of them, if required, to review each school's share of the system's instructional time. The Joint Staffing Committee shall perform the following functions: review annually the staffing spreadsheet used to generate allocations ensure that all desirable class size maxima have been achieved in accordance with the timelines in paragraph review, monitor and make recommendations regarding working conditions of teachers review and monitor the application of transfer, surplus, redundancy and recall procedures The Joint Staffing Committee shall be provided with: the Human Resources Staffing Report for Secondary Teachers teacher timetables and supervision schedules school timetables section allocations by department
Joint Staffing Committee. 25.4.1 The Employer and the Union agree to establish a Staffing Committee that will meet to discuss and resolve issues of mutual concern to the Union and Employer.
25.4.2 All meetings of the Staffing Committee will be held at a mutually agreed to times.
25.4.3 Meetings will take place on the IMCW campus unless another location is mutually agreed to by the parties.
25.4.4 Employees who are designated as staffing members under Article 25.4.7 shall be paid their base hourly rate for time spent at the meetings up to one hour maximum unless mutually agreed to continue past the one hour time limit. Time spent at these meetings shall not be considered as time worked for the purpose of computing PTO or overtime.
25.4.5 Meetings shall be held bi-monthly (6 times per year) on a regularly scheduled day and time, and shall be on the same dates as the Labor/Management meetings set forth in Article
Joint Staffing Committee. The parties shall maintain a Joint Staffing Committee. The primary responsibilities of the Committee, which should be scheduled to meet quarterly, will be:
1. Development and oversight of an annual patient care unit and shift-based nurse and ancillary nursing personnel staffing plan, based on the needs of patients, to be used as the primary component of the staffing budget. Factors to be considered in the development of the plan should include, but are not limited to:
a. Census, including total numbers of patients on the unit on each shift and activity such as patient discharges, admissions, and transfers;
b. Level of intensity, as determined by the nursing assessment of all patients, and nature of the care to be delivered on each shift;
c. Skill mix required;
d. Level of experience and specialty of available staff;
e. The need for specialized or intensive equipment;
f. The architecture and geography of the patient care unit, including but not limited to placement of patient rooms, treatment areas, nursing stations, medication preparation areas, and equipment;
g. Staffing guidelines adopted or published by national nursing professional associations, specialty nursing organizations, and other health professional organizations;
h. Significant technological or clinical advances;
i. Recommendations of any “ad hoc” Unit-Based Staffing Committee that may have been formed by the Hospital and the Union under Section 18.6; and
j. Except for unforeseen or emergency situations, coverage of 1:1 patient sitter assignments separate from the normal staffing matrix;
k. Hospital resources and finances may be taken into account.
2. Semiannual review, or more often as indicated, of the unit-based staffing plan against need and known evidence-based staffing information, including the nursing-sensitive quality indicators collected by the Medical Center. Nursing sensitive indicators that are below expected performance each month for six or more months will be used by the committee to evaluate the unit-based staffing plan;
3. Assure the Care Value patient classification tool is operational and participate in maximizing the effectiveness of the tool;
4. Review, assessment and response to staffing concerns presented to the Committee;
5. The Joint Staffing Committee will produce the Medical Center’s annual nurse staffing plan, and present it to the Medical Center’s Chief Executive Officer or designee;
6. If the staffing plan report produced by the Joint Staffing Committee is not ad...
