Common use of Nurse Professional Practice Advisory Committee Clause in Contracts

Nurse Professional Practice Advisory Committee. There shall be established at the Medical Center a permanent Nurse Professional Practice Advisory Committee consisting of one Bargaining Unit nurse and one Clinical Manager from each care set. The Chief Nurse Executive or designee will co-chair the committee with a Bargaining Unit nurse. An Ad Hoc AaNA representative may attend the meeting providing a Medical Center confidentiality agreement is signed. The Committee will be advisory only. The Nurse Professional Practice Advisory Committee will meet monthly. The purpose and function of this Committee is to identify patient care issues or problems including staffing issues and to establish a process by which all interested staff may provide input, make recommendations, propose solutions and participate in validating patient and staffing needs and Professional Practice Standards. The Committee shall receive upon request of the co-chairs any reports relevant to matters of staffing, patient and/or staff safety, or practice issues which are not protected by legal confidentiality. Minutes of all meetings will be recorded by the Committee secretary. The Committee secretary position shall rotate between non co-chair members each meeting. The first order of business at the next meeting shall be to correct and finalize minutes from the previous meeting. Finalized Committee minutes will be distributed by the Committee to each nursing unit. Management and/or the Association may request special meetings as needed but such meetings are not to take the place of regularly scheduled meetings of the Committee. The Committee may agree to meet less often than monthly. The Medical Center with input from staff nurses shall maintain a patient acuity system for inpatient (Medical Center) units and be accountable for staffing to it. Association members of the Committee shall serve at their regular rate of pay for up to two (2) hours per meeting.