Common use of Mandatory Education Clause in Contracts

Mandatory Education. The Medical Center shall make reasonable efforts to provide nurses with adequate time within their normal full-time equivalency to accommodate mandatory education. Nurses shall make reasonable efforts to complete mandatory education (such as HealthStream) and the annual nursing evaluation during regularly scheduled shifts. A nurse who is finding it difficult to find adequate uninterrupted time away from patient care duties to complete mandatory education or the nursing evaluation may bring this difficulty to the attention of his or her manager and/or nursing supervisor. The nurse and the manager will then work together to schedule a reasonable amount of paid time away from patient care, consistent with patient care needs, for the nurse to complete the education or evaluation. This may include during periods of low census, with the approval of the nurse’s manager and/or nursing supervisor.