Travelers and Contracted Agency Nurses h. Full-time or part-time nurses in accordance with the low census rotation. In the event there are no volunteers, the Employer will assign and rotate mandatory low census equitably among all nurses within a clinical service on a shift, providing skill, competence, ability and availability are not considered to be overriding factors in the opinion of the Employer. In the event a nurse is placed in an on-call status and not called in to work, the shift will be counted as the nurse's mandatory low census day. If an individual volunteers to take a low census day off, that day off shall be counted for purposes of the rotation list. Floating to another unit or other work assigned by the Employer in lieu of taking a low census day will count for purposes of the low census rotation. Each clinical service by shift will have a seniority roster. For low census purposes, the seniority roster will be restarted each six (6) months. If the nurse is not available by telephone on their mandatory low census rotation turn, and reports to work without checking census status, upon reporting for work the nurse may be low censused without pay. Each nurse is responsible for knowing their position on the low census roster. All low census hours taken shall count toward the accrual of benefits. PTO may be used on a low census day. A nurse who is placed on low census will be allowed to fill a shift scheduled to be worked by an on-call nurse provided the replacement shift is in the same pay period and will not result in additional overtime. All records of low census will be maintained by Nursing Administration.
Travelers and Contracted Agency Nurses. This is a draft and has not been finalized; it may contain errors.
