Providing Safe and Skilled Patient Xxxx. Xx is the responsibility of nurses not to make employment commitments as health care professionals outside the medical center that interfere with their ability to provide safe and skilled patient care while at work in the medical center. If the Employer believes a nurse has made such a commitment, it may raise the matter with the nurse, and the nurse and Employer shall then attempt to reach a mutually acceptable resolution to the situation. It is the responsibility of the Employer not to schedule or work nurses in any way that interferes with their ability to provide safe and skilled patient care while at work at the ONA/PHMC Collective Bargaining Agreement February 1, 2020 April 1, 2024 through March 31, Page 27 202824 Employer. If a nurse believes she/he has been scheduled or worked in such a way or if a nurse believes that another nurse has been scheduled or worked in this way, she/he may raise the matter with the Employer and the Employer shall then meet with the affected nurses and attempt to reach a mutually acceptable resolution to the situation. Formatted: Not Highlight patient assignment. The Unit-Based Practice Council will develop this
Providing Safe and Skilled Patient Xxxx. Xx is the responsibility of nurses not 9 to make employment commitments as health care professionals outside the 10 medical center that interfere with their ability to provide safe and skilled patient 11 care while at work in the medical center. If the Employer believes a nurse has 12 made such a commitment, it may raise the matter with the nurse, and the nurse 13 and Employer shall then attempt to reach a mutually acceptable resolution to 14 the situation. 15 16 It is the responsibility of the Employer not to schedule or work nurses in any 17 way that interferes with their ability to provide safe and skilled patient care while 18 at work at the Employer. If a nurse believes she/he has been scheduled or 19 worked in such a way or if a nurse believes that another nurse has been 20 scheduled or worked in this way, she/he may raise the matter with the Employer 21 and the Employer shall then meet with the affected nurses and attempt to reach 22 a mutually acceptable resolution to the situation. 23 24 8.10 Floating Assignments. Nurses shall receive float assignments consistent 25 with their skills, competencies, and the patient population to which they are 26 oriented. At a minimum, nurses assigned to float will receive or will have 27 previously received basic information needed to work on the unit, including unit 28 layout, location of supplies, and essential unit protocols prior to receiving a 29 patient assignment. The Unit-Based Practice Council will develop this 30 information for their unit. Non-oriented nurses and/or non-competent nurses can 31 only assume supplemental assist assignments, which will not include taking a 32 primary patient assignment. If a nurse determines in his/her professional 33 judgement that he/she is not unit competent for the float assignment, the nurse 34 may indicate the reasons why, at the time of the assignment, to either the 1 individual making the float assignment, or to the designated individual in charge 2 of the unit to which the nurse has been assigned to float, in an attempt to 3 mutually agree on an accommodation or a supplemental assist position. There 4 shall be no retaliation for a nurse raising a concern with a floating assignment. 5 Floating assignments shall be made in the following order:
