Staff Development Time. Family Nurse Practitioners in the Hospital, Health Centers Division and Detention Centers, who are regularly scheduled to work sixteen (16) hours per week or more of Family Practice Clinics and/or Detention Clinics shall be eligible for staff development time. The nature of the staff development time shall be decided by the appropriate Department Head and could include such responsibilities as specialty clinic assignments, or activities which contribute to patients’ health, system efficiency or quality care. Employees will be notified in writing of the decisions regarding their proposals. Employees may apply to use such time by submitting their proposal describing the goals and process of their work to the appointing authority of designee for approval. Approval of the use of staff development time shall be a specific period of time and may be discontinued at any time with a written explanation, at the discretion of the appointing authority or designee. Employees involved in such work shall be required to submit periodic reports as determined by the appointing authority or designee. Employees will accumulate four (4) hours per month of staff development time. Such time can be used in blocks of four (4) hours per week not to exceed forty-eight (48) hours per calendar year. Unused hours do not carry over into the next year. Those employees who are scheduled to work less than full time may be assigned to these four (4) hours per month over and above their regularly scheduled hours.
